At Princeton, Bruce majored in English, wrote his senior thesis on the British dramatist John Osborne, and belonged to Cap and Gown. He roomed at 327 Walker with Jim Avery III and participated in Theatre Intime, the Concordia Society, Orange Key, ROTC, and won numerals for freshman baseball and played club hockey.
After graduation, Bruce served in the Army for two years as a first lieutenant, Adjutant General Corps. After discharge, he entered and graduated from Duke Law School. He began a 25-year career with Pacific Power and Light Corp. specializing in labor-relations law, becoming the head legal counsel and chief labor-relations attorney for the company. He also served as manager of the human resources department and three other departments during his career.
Bruce married wife Alice in 1983 and the couple had a son, Colin, in 1991. In our 50th-reunion yearbook he said he decided to retire at age 56 to enjoy life free of consuming business demands, enabling him to pursue activities too often sacrificed for work, including swimming, skiing, hiking, hockey, golf, baseball, and voluminous reading.
Seven years before his death Bruce lost his eyesight due to disease, but he courageously continued to keep engaged. He kept up strength training, cardio exercise, and participation in a book club he had founded almost 30 years before. He also had 15 years involvement in a Bible study club. He is survived by son Colin and the Class of 1967, for whom he was a deeply respected member.