After graduation Bruce went to UCLA, where he earned an MBA and met his wife, Laurel Janet Hale. Bruce began a career with IBM before being drafted into the Army. The Army sent Bruce to Fort Ord on Monterey Bay and then to Chicago and Indianapolis, after which he returned to IBM and California, living first in Los Gatos, and finally in Cameron Park in the Sacramento area.
Reflecting on his Princeton career for the 50th-reunion yearbook, Bruce noted that he had done well in engineering courses but made little use of them in his career, though they taught him to think logically and analyze accurately, while the worlds of music, art, and literature, to which Princeton had introduced him, had continued to enhance his life, though he had done badly in those courses.
He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Janet; three children; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.