Robert B. Rodgers ’56

Bob Rodgers, the consummate Princetonian, died suddenly Aug. 9, 2011, at his second home in Michigan.

Bob had been class president, chair of two major reunions, chair of the Alumni Council Princetoniana Committee, chair of the National Alumni Schools Committee, board member of Westminster Foundation, and honorary “Keeper of the Key” to the Stadium 1956 Suite. He also was elected a "distinguished classmate".

A chemical engineer, Bob’s career began at Monsanto, where he worked until 1972. He next went to BASF, where he was vice president for logistics until his retirement in 1993. It was natural, then, that he moved from his home in Mountain Lakes, N.J., to the home of his heart, Princeton.

Bob was an elder at Nassau Presbyterian Church and a member of the Congregational Summer Assembly in Pilgrim, Mich.

Bob was a lover of wife and family, friend to all, engineer, builder, analyst, perfectionist, compulsive organizer, debater, mediator, fixer, nature lover, preserver, sailor, grill master, builder of beach fires, reader, wordsmith, collector, poet, writer of limericks, gentle giant, and Tiger.

He is survived by Sue Harrison Rodgers, his loving wife of over 50 years; his children, Katherine Palmer and Elisabeth ’86, Robert B. II ’88, and Stanley Rodgers; and six grandchildren. He will be in our hearts forever.