Robert Barrie Slaymaker ’51

Barrie was born April 29, 1929, the son of Samuel E. Slaymaker Jr. ’14 and Eugenia Barrie Slaymaker.

An alumnus of St. Paul’s School, he was a philosophy major at Princeton and a member of the Nassau Herald committee and Colonial Club. He roomed with Charlie Dodge and Jim Biddle.

Following graduation he attended OCS and served for four years as a destroyer officer on the USS Lewis Hancock. After his discharge in 1955 he worked for N.W. Ayer & Son in its outdoor advertising department before joining his father’s firm, Haines Gauge Co., as vice president for new products. Barrie was an avid fly-fisherman and sailor. At the time of his death, Oct. 28, 2006, he was the owner of Haines Gauge in Phoenixville, Pa.

In 1963 he married Sandra McIlvain, who survives him together with their son, Robert Jr., and his wife, Elizabeth; their daughter, Sandra Baird Slaymaker; his sister, Eugenia Slaymaker; and three grandchildren, Sarah, Isabel, and Katherine. His brother, Samuel E. Slaymaker III ’43, predeceased him. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association.