Robert Albert Guenther ’36

Bob died of cancer Sept. 17, 1999, at a Brick, N.J., nursing home. He was 84.

He prepared at Newark Academy. He left Princeton in the middle of his sophomore year, and later graduated from Rutgers U. with a business degree.

During WWII, he enlisted as a private in 1943. He served 15 months stationed at Fort Jackson, S.C., in the 306th infantry, 77th division.

Bob was the owner for many years of the Olympic Amusement Park in Maplewood, N.J. He retired in 1966. In 1981 he returned to business as office manager of the Maplewood Country Club.

Bob's wife, Elizabeth, whom he married in 1941, died in 1984. He is survived by sons Robert Jr. and William G.; and three grandchildren.

The Class of 1936