Milton Leroy Goff ’55

Roy Goff died May 16, 1996, at the Jamaica Plain, Mass., V.A. Hospital. He was reared in Ithan (Villanova), Pa., and attended Episcopal Academy. He entered Princeton under the ROTC program, graduated magna cum laude, and flew Navy surveillance aircraft for several years. Roy then earned a doctorate in experimental psychology and worked as a consultant in astronaut psychology for General Electric. In 1967 he cofounded Old Barn Antiques in Bath, Maine. The business is continued by his exwife, Emery Bradley Carhart, to whom he was married for 19 years.

In later years, Roy was an antique carousel broker, a metal sculptor, and an importer of Mayan handicrafts. He spent his winters in Mexico, Guatemala, Texas, and Pennsylvania, and was a lifelong summer resident of Martha's Vineyard. Roy was also an inventor, an amateur musician, and held commercial pilot's and truck driver's licenses. His memberships ranged from BMW Motorcycle Owners to Sigma Xi.

The class extends its sympathy to his parents, Marion and Roy Goff Jr. '26, brothers Clark and William, sister Mary Jane Knipmeyer, sons Roy (Rory) IV, John, and Mark, daughter Katrina G. Hoverson, three grandchildren, and close friend Nelly Domingues de la Rosa.

The Class of 1955