Robert Charles McNamara Jr. ’29

BOB DIED in Brewster, Mass., Jan. 12, 1994. He was born in Princeton and prepared for college at Nicholas Senior H.S. in Chicago. At Princeton, he was track manager, on the editorial board of THE TIGER, and belonged to Tower Club. His roommate was Price Day. Almost immediately after college, Bob started to work at Scott Foresman & Co., the educational publishing house later headed by his father. Bob was president of the American Textbook Publishers Institute and of the national Great Books Foundation. He served as treasurer of POETRY magazine and is credited with having saved it in the 1950s. He helped to write Illinois legislation protecting borrowers from deceptive lending policies. This was enacted in Illinois in 1966 and later in 41 other states. Bob is survived by his stepmother, Mrs. R. C. McNamara; a sister, Ruth M. Felton; and by four sons: Stephen, Robert C. III, and Norris; and a daughter, Cornelia Richter. The class extends sincere sympathy to Bob's family.

The Class of 1929