Robert B. Winslow ’58

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Bob died July 14, 2014, near Sacramento, Calif.

He came to Princeton from Deerfield Academy and majored in biology. He was a member of the yacht club and the premed society. During his senior year, he roomed with Hank Stoever in Tiger Inn.

After graduation, Bob graduated from Columbia Medical School in 1962 and then went to Yale-New Haven Hospital and Mary Hitchcock Hospital at Dartmouth to complete his surgical training. He attended Temple in Philadelphia for his plastic-surgery training. He was in the Air Force from 1964 to 1967, stationed in Turkey. Bob also served on Operation Second Chance, performing reconstructive surgery on the victims of the   war in Croatia.

From 1971 to 1975, he practiced at the University of North Carolina’s Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill and then went into private practice in the Raleigh area until the early ’90s when he moved to California, where he practiced until his retirement. He was a diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Plastic Surgery and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

Bob is survived by his wife, Joanne; his son, Bradford; daughters Elizabeth and Sarah; and eight grandchildren. To them all, the class extends deepest condolences.

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