Robert C. Hendon Jr. ’59

Rob died April 11, 2016, in Tampa, Fla., of mantle cell lymphoma. He had been diagnosed in 2006.

Born in Des Moines, Rob attended Gilman School in Baltimore and graduated from Scarsdale (N.Y.) High School. At Princeton he ate at Charter, drilled with NROTC, solicited for the Campus Fund Drive, and graduated cum laude from the Woodrow Wilson School. His Navy obligation placed him on the NATO staff of the Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, following which he graduated from Yale Law School, where he was the first non-Yale graduate to be selected head freshman counselor.

Rob joined the Waller, Lansden, Dortch & Davis firm in Nashville, specializing in all aspects of corporate law. During this time he was chairman of the Princeton Schools Committee, president of the Princeton Club, and a founding trustee of the Princeton Alumni Association of Nashville and Middle Tennessee. He left Nashville in 1992 to become vice president and general counsel of Berlitz International, headquartered in Princeton.

In 1994, in the Princeton Chapel, Rob married his beloved second wife, Donna Rotonda, whom he had met the previous year, and they enjoyed extensive travels during their marriage. Rob retired in 1999, and they relocated to Venice, Fla.

Rob is survived by Donna, his son and daughter, a sister, two stepdaughters, and three grandsons.