Robert Clare Rockwell ’47

Bob died Mar. 11, 1994, in Boise, Idaho. He had suffered many years from a heart condition complicated by polycythemia, which he developed while at Princeton and which plagued him for the rest of his life. He was born in Evanston, Ill., and spent his boyhood and adolescence in Winnetka and came to Princeton from Winnetka's New Trier H.S.

After two years, Bob left Princeton and moved to Delray Beach, Fla. For the next 12 years he and his father were in business manufacturing shower doors. He then moved to Denver, where he enrolled at Denver U. and took a BA in history. After receiving his degree, he became a technical writer. Perhaps because of his chronic health problems, Bob did not often communicate with the class and did not respond to appeals for biographical sketches for our reunion yearbooks, but we know, nevertheless, that he cherished the memory of his years at Princeton and often reminisced about them with his family.

Bob is survived by his wife, Eleanor, his brother, Theodore III, and his sister, Paisley R. Seyforth. To them the class extends its profound sympathy.

The Class of 1947