Robert Barrios ’76

BOB, A COPY EDITOR for the N.Y. TIMES and former Foreign Service officer, died Jan. 7, 1988, at the St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City, He was 33 and lived in Manhattan. His death was caused by histoplasmosis, a fungal infection.

After Princeton, Bob joined the U.S. Information Agency in Washington in 1981. He went on to become assistant press attache at the United States Embassy in Lisbon and cultural attache at the embassy in San Salvador, before deciding to leave the Foreign Service to pursue a career in journalism.

He returned to the U.S. and entered the Columbia Univ, Graduate School of journalism, from which he received his master's degree in 1986. Bob joined the TIMES the same year and was a copy editor on the foreign news desk at the time of his death.

To his parents, Lazaro and Rafaela Barrios, and sister, Mercedes Ribalaigua, the Class extends its deepest sympathies.

The Class of 1976