Robert Burton Romberger ’36

Burt Romberger, of Newport Beach, Calif., died Jan. 19, 1995, of complications of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. He was 80. He prepared at Tabor Academy, majored in architecture at Princeton, and was a member of Arbor Inn. In 1940, he also got his M.F.A. from Princeton.

After Pearl Harbor, he worked three years in the Naval Architectural Office at the Todd Shipyards in San Pedro, Calif., then at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena until 1954, and then he moved to Newport Beach, where he practiced until retiring in 1979.

Burt served as president in 1950 of the Pasadena chapter of the American Institute of Architects and was elevated to its College of Fellows, one of 44 nationally, in 1960. He founded the Princeton Club of Newport Beach-Laguna.

He is survived by daughters Anne R. Devulder and Kathryn R. Halstead and grandchildren Donald L. Conner Jr., Robert B. Halstead, and Michele C. Devulder. Burt was a loyal Princetonian and will be missed.