Dudley Bell Robinson Jr. ’49 *52

"TOM" DIED at home on May 219, 1,992, following a heroic twoyear bout with prostate cancer.

He was born in Cleveland on Mar. 15, 1927, and came to Princeton from Andover. Tom's studies at Princeton were interrupted while he served in the Army, from July 1946 to Jan. 1948, with the rank of T/5. He majored in electrical engineering; was a member of the University concert band, orchestra, and football band; was a student member of IRE; and belonged to the Student Christian Assn. Tom graduated with high honors, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and in 1950 was awarded the Sayre Fellowship in Applied Electricity.

Tom attained his M.S. at Princeton Graduate School, worked for the Kearfott Company in Little Falls, N.J., and then joined the technical staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories/A.T.&T., for whom lie worked until his retirement in 1987. He and June Simon were married in 1953 and had a son and a daughter.

Tom had been a licensed private pilot for 30 years, and June writes, "in his four and I half great years of retirement, he flew, built and sailed a variety of radiocontrolled model boats, built model steam engines, and read ravenously. The grandchildren, who came along at that time, were a superb source of joy to him."

In passing, Tom is survived by his widow; his son, David; his daughter, Cynthia Mearns; and two grandchildren. Our hearts go out to all of them in their loss.

The Class of 1949