Bob died Dec. 21, 2014. He was 79.

Bob graduated cum laude from Princeton with a degree from the Woodrow Wilson School. He played football and joined Cap and Gown. Senior year he roomed with Rusty Melges, Elliott Otis, Dick Sparks, Mike Stewart, and Jack Snell.

Bob received his law degree from Harvard in 1960 and then worked at Breed, Abbott & Morgan from 1960 to 1967 and for ARMCO Steel Corp. in Ohio as its corporate attorney, corporate vice president, secretary, and general counsel between 1967 and 1993.

He was a member of the American Law Institute, American Bar Association, Ohio Bar Association, and New York Bar Association. Bob also had been involved with the Boy Scouts of America since 1946, and was past president and member of the executive committee of Community Soup Kitchen of Morris County (N.J.) and a recipient of its Caritas Award in 1998.

Bob was our class president from 2002 to 2007. He started the caring committee and was an early trustee of the classmate fund. He led key fundraising drives, and served on the Alumni Council executive board and as a Cap and Gown trustee.

Survivors include his wife, Valerie; children Robert ’80, William, Richard, and Deborah; three stepchildren; nine grandchildren; and six step-grandchildren. Bob was predeceased by his first wife, Sally.

Undergraduate Class of 1957