Bob died peacefully April 28, 2012, at home in Pawlet, Vt.

Born in New York City, Bob attended Andover, where he sailed and sang. A Princeton Yacht Club stalwart and president of the Tigertones, Bob majored in economics and ate at Campus Club. His father was Robert Bushnell ’28.

After a short stint as a Coast Guard officer, Bob worked at Chemical Bank in New York. He joined the Blue Hill Troupe theater group, where he met and later married Nancy Smith. Bob appeared in virtually all the troupe’s performances until 2008, serving as its president in 1972.

Bob’s business life revolved around finance and his recreational life around musical theater, singing, and sailing. He sang in New York with quartets and quintets, and in Vermont with the Dorset Players. He raced at the Noroton (Conn.) Yacht Club, sailed in Bermuda regattas, and competed in the Senior Olympics. He sailed often in the British Virgin Islands, once on his Sunfish from the west end of Tortola to the east end of Virgin Gorda, lunching at the Bitter End Yacht Club, and returning to Tortola at 11 p.m.

The last visitors to Bob’s bedside were four Tigertones who performed a send-off concert for him. Divorced in 1984, Bob is survived by sons Robert III and Edward, and daughter Heather ’92.

Undergraduate Class of 1959