Robert Chase Flint ’42

The class recently received the sad news that Bob Flint died suddenly in the spring of 1999 in Lake Forest, Ill., of causes related to previous heart problems.

From his son, Stephen, classmates and Princeton records, we learned that Bob prepared at the Lawrenceville School where he won the mathematics prize. During his two years with us, his academic interests were engineering and accounting. He was a member of Campus Club.

During WWII Bob was a radio officer (ensign) in the Merchant Marine. He was the first radio officer in NY harbor to hear the news of V-E Day, signifying the end of the war in the European theater. Bob transmitted the signal that initiated general rejoicing ashore and afloat in the harbor area.

Most of Bob's work life was in offset printing starting in Joliet, Ill. Eventually he and his wife, Diana, settled down in Barrington, Ill., where he worked for Neuman Rudolf until he opened his own business, Flint Print, in Skokie. For several years he was a class solicitor for AG, retiring after Diana died in 1993.

To Bob's three children, Cameron Chase, Charlotte Diana Smith, and Stephen Chase, the class extends its sincerest condolences.

The Class of 1942