Robert Clarence Walden Jr. ’38

Bob died Aug. 18, 2006.

At Princeton Bob majored in chemistry, earning departmental honors his junior year, and was a member of Elm Club. After receiving his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1942, he immediately joined the Navy. From 1943 to 1945, he served as a medical officer aboard the destroyer USS Ludlow and earned three battle stars. In 1948 he resigned from the Navy and began his residency at Columbia Hospital for Women in Washington, D.C.

In 1954 he became a diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Thereafter, for 40 years, he offered his help to women and their families in his practice in obstetrics and gynecology in Manchester, Conn. Requesting no flowers or contributions in his memory, Bob urged that his relatives and friends make every effort to enjoy the love that life offers.

Olga Evsiechick Walden, Bob's beloved wife of 51 years, predeceased him in 1997. He is survived by three sons — all physicians — Thomas, Robert, and Peter, to whom the class extends its most sincere condolences.

The Class of 1938