Robert Abbot Sincerbeaux ’36

Bob died at home in Hanover, N.H., on Dec. 6, 2000. He was 87. A graduate of the Hun School, at Princeton he majored cum laude in political science. In 1939 he received his law degree from Yale.

During WWII he served three years in the Navy and later in the USNR, attaining the rank of lieutenant-commander. From 1946-72 he was an associate, partner, and counsel of the NYC law firm Sincerbeaux and Shrewsbury.

Bob was president of the Eva Gebhard-Gourgaud Foundation and trustee of the Cecil Howard Charitable Trust, both organizations devoted to historical preservation. He was also a trustee of the Woodstock [Vt.] Foundation and the Woodstock Historical Society. He was a founding member of the Preservation Trust of Vermont and the Vermont Land Trust. He also aided in the creation of the Vermont Institute of Natural Science. He was a past president of the Woodstock Country Club. In 1982 he received the Preservation Trust of Vermont Award and in 1984 the National Trust for Historic Preservation Honor Award.

Bob is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Morley Sincerbeaux, sons Richard M. '64, Charles M. '75, a daughter, Suzanne S. Brian, eight grandchildren including Caroline C. Sincerbeaux '98, three great-grandchildren, and a sister, Barbara.

The Class of 1936