Bob Levien died Jan. 28, 2014.
Bob graduated from high school in Florida. After Pearl Harbor he enlisted in the Navy’s V-8 accelerated program and thus was able to continue his studies in civil engineering at Princeton, where he was a member of Terrace Club. Bob was in the first group of ’45ers to receive degrees on April 4, 1944.
After two months of midshipman school in Rhode Island, he was commissioned on July 15, 1944, as an ensign in the Navy’s Civil Engineer Corps. The next day, July 16, he married Anita Daniels, the love of his life. They spent the next seven months together while he underwent further training. His unit was then sent to the Pacific theater, where he saw action at Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
When he returned to the United States in 1947, he went into the construction business. He opened his own professional engineering office in 1953 in New York, designing hundreds of buildings throughout the country until his retirement in 2002.
Bob is survived by Anita; his son, Kenneth; daughter, Cary; and granddaughters Andrea and Kate. His son, Andrew, predeceased him in 1969. The class expresses its sympathy to the family.