Andrew Tod Roy *48

Andrew Tod Roy, missionary to China, died of heart disease May 2, 2004, in his home near Pittsburgh, Pa. He was 101.

Andrew was inspired to a life of service by his father, an engineer who died while nursing Mexican miners through an epidemic of yellow fever. After receiving a bachelor's degree from Washington and Lee University in 1925, Andrew studied in Great Britain and at the Peking Language School with his wife, Margaret, before appointment by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions to the University of Nanking. During furloughs home, Andrew earned a master's and a doctorate from Princeton in philosophy.

Remaining in China through World War II and the communist victory of 1949, Andrew was placed under house arrest at the onset of the Korean War. In 1951, Chinese authorities denounced and expelled him from China. He returned to missionary work in Asia in 1954, teaching at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 1982 he and Margaret retired to Pennsylvania.

Andrew lived through interesting times, recording his experiences in a privately published memoir and much poetry. He is survived by two sons, David and J. Stapleton '56, and three grandchildren.