Robert B. Baker Jr. ’59

Born in Plainfield, N.J., Bob spent many of his formative years in India and the Philippines, his father being a sub-manager of (in those days) National City Bank. From southeast Asia, Bob was transported to the Kent School in Connecticut to prepare for Princeton.

Bob enrolled at Princeton in the history department and wrote his senior thesis on “The Philippine Defense Campaign.” He signed into Elm Club and served as vice chairman of the Orange Key’s Special Services Committee, as a member of the Prince’s business staff, and as a staffer on the Bric. His senior-year roommates were Bill Beim, Peter Burch, John Cook, and Gil Ratcliff.

Earning a law degree at George Washington University, Bob was swallowed up in the Washington legal whirlpool, from which he emerged around the time of our 50th reunion. He spent most of his adult life in and around Washington, D.C., passing away in Strasburg, Va., Dec. 25, 2022.