Robert Benjamin Eubank ’64

One of our Southern gentlemen, Robert Benjamin Eubank, succumbed peacefully to a failed heart on April 23, 2010.  

Known to most of his Princeton classmates as Robin, but to the rest of the world as “Roben,” he was born May 30, 1942, in Alexandria, La., the son of a noted lawyer and Louisiana legislator. At Princeton he majored in history and was on the dean’s list (“the good list,” he always said) as a junior. He received a law degree from Harvard in 1967 and a master of laws degree in taxation from New York University in 1973.  

Roben maintained a successful tax and securities-law practice in Birmingham, Ala., for 30 years and taught law at Cumberland Law School. He was a devoted family man and a gentle soul who invariably saw the best in all people. He enjoyed skiing, fly-fishing, flying, and coaching his sons’ soccer teams. His heart lay in sailing, though. He would take anyone who wanted to go on his boat and would beg those who did not to go with him anyway.

Roben married his true love, Sara Janet “Jan” Jones, in 1967. She predeceased him by only a few months. He is survived by his loving sons, Robert and James.