Robert C. Doherty ’52

Bob came to us from Exeter and was an English major. He joined Ivy and played lacrosse all four years (national champions in ’51) while belonging to the 21 Club. He roomed with John Hoffman and John Bryan.

Bob was a second lieutenant in the Marines, serving in Korea until 1954, when he commenced his career in advertising, working in New York for a Chicago firm. In 1979 he formed an ad firm with friends, then left to join McKinney in Raleigh, N.C. In 2000 he retired and began working as a board volunteer for the North Carolina Symphony, the National Audubon Society, and the North Carolina Museum of History.

With his sons, he traveled far to many bodies of water to pursue his enthusiasm for fly-fishing, and with his wife, Kerstin, to their holiday place on Figure Eight Island. She died in 2019. Bob died later that year, Nov. 28.

To their sons Michael, R. Kelly ’81, Andrew, and Thomas, the class sends good wishes, with a salute for Bob and his Marine service to our country.