Robert Carpenter Lydecker ’35

Bob died on Mar. 7 in Basking Ridge, N.J., at age 85. He prepared at Glen Ridge H.S., where he was on the track team, served on the yearbook and literary board, was a sports manager, and played in the orchestra. At Princeton he majored in economics, earned second group honors, went out for track, wrote editorials for the Princetonian, and belonged to the Triangle Club, orchestra, and Key and Seal.

In 1941 he married the former Laurie Bell Kerr. The next year he joined the navy and during WWII was involved in the management of various supply jobs for the Atlantic fleet. After the war he kept his commission as a navy commander and returned to work for Public Service Electric & Gas Co. until he retired as assistant to its board chair in 1979.

Over the years, he served on Millburn's township committee, its citizens' budget committee, its finance and welfare committee, and even on its shade tree advisory board. He also led a Boy Scout troop and took up playing tennis.

During the 1990s the class elected him its secy. Then, in 1996, the Lydeckers "retired" to Fellowship Village in Basking Ridge. In addition to Laurie and three daughters, he leaves a son, John C. '74, eight grandchildren, a great-grandchild, and a brother, Robert A. '38.

The Class of 1935