Robert C. Draudt ’41

ROB DRAUDT died in an instant, of heart failure, while working in his garden in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., Oct. 4, 1991. He and his wife, Frances, his high school sweetheart, had come to our 50th, where he had seemed in good health.

Bob was a hustler, in the bygone and favorable sense of the word. While carrying a heavy chemical engineering course load, he not only waited on tables in Commons but carried sandwiches through dorms at night. Bob Hutchinson, Dana Knowlton, and Jack Krome were among Bob's close friends, and Jack and he had planned to room together senior year. Bob, however, had to leave Princeton for financial reasons, and he finished up at Ohio State. He was an Air Force pilot during the war.

A man of many talents, Bob worked as a chemist at Curtis-Wright, as a quality control engineer at North American Rockwell, and as a selfemployed tax and business consultant. His hobbies were flying, power boating, baseball, and taking long ocean cruises with Fran. There are seven grandchildren.

The Class extends its deep sympathy to Frances and to their children Jeffrey, Jane, Virginia, and Marcia.

The Class of 1941