Robert Alfred Barron ’51

Bob died of cancer Aug. 23, 2003, in Sarasota where he had retired in 1991.

He came to us from Washington Irving HS in Tarrytown, N.Y., as did his lifelong friend and classmate, Ed Reed. At Princeton he was a chemistry major, a member of Terrace Club, and played freshman football and basketball, and JV football. He was a Marine Corps veteran of the Korean War.

Bob did graduate work at Fordham and at Trinity College, Dublin. For 35 years he was a professor of mathematics at the U. of Rhode Island. He married the former Elizabeth Schaffers and is survived by her and their four children, Deborah, Meredith B. Wittwer, Douglas, and Trevor; six grandchildren; his sister, Rosemary Sheridan; and two brothers, William and John.

The Class of 1951