Bob was born Oct. 12, 1928, in Little Rock to A.B. and Helen Clement Pickett. He attended Lawrence-ville, where he graduated cum laude, and served in the Army from 1946 to 1948.

At Princeton he was an economics major and a member of the Russian, bridge, skeet, and Campus clubs. He roomed with Bailey Brower, Kirby Dwight, Paul Hensley, and George Nimick. Bob was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, graduated summa cum laude, and went on to earn an MBA from NYU in 1963.

A chartered financial analyst, Bob was managing editor of the Value Line Investment Survey in New York in the 1960s and served as senior vice president and chief investment officer at the Commer-cial Union Insurance Co. in Boston from the 1970s until his retirement in 1993.

He served as treasurer to the vestry at St. Anne’s in-the-Fields Episcopal Church in Lincoln, Mass., where his memorial service was held. Bob died Oct. 13, 2012, the day after his 84th birthday. He is survived by his wife, Martha O’Neill Pickett; his sons John, Andrew ’83, and Bruce; and four grand-children. He also is survived by his second wife, Annette Munn Pickett; his first wife, Judith Hyde Pickett, predeceased him.

Undergraduate Class of 1951