Hailing from Yonkers, N.Y., Bob prepped at Gorton High School, where he was on the tennis and track teams and wrote for the school newspaper. Following his brothers Raymond ’30 and Richard ’38, Bob entered Princeton in 1939. He majored in English and was on the class tennis team, served on the news board of The Daily Princetonian and the Nassau Sovereign, was a gateman at football games, worked as a sports manager, and ate at Campus Club. In the Nassau Herald, Bob said he expected to “engage in aviation” when he graduated.
Accordingly, Bob went into the Army Air Corps in 1943, but he was disabled in training. From 1947 to 1950, he was academic director of a rehabilitation organization in New York, setting the stage for his life’s work in education and veterans affairs. Bob earned a master’s degree in education from St. Lawrence University and a Ph.D. from Boston College. He went on to become a dean at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., and the vice president of St. Leo’s College in Florida.
Bob is survived by his wife of 71 years, Joan Ann (Guilfoy); daughter Alison; son Christopher ’76; and four granddaughters. He was predeceased by two sons: Mark in 1978; and Robert in 2002.