Robert D. Stuart Jr. ’37

Robert Stuart, a Princeton charter trustee from 1970 to 1980 and then a trustee emeritus, died May 8, 2014.

Coming to us from the Los Alamos Ranch School, Bob won the Philo Sherman Bennett Prize in Political Science. He played freshman hockey and managed the varsity crew. He managed advertising for The Daily Princetonian, chaired the Nassau Herald, and was a member of Tiger Inn. He married Barbara Edwards in 1938.

At Yale Law School, Bob was founding director of the America First Committee and then joined the Army, serving in Europe as a staff officer. In 1947, Bob joined Quaker Oats, in which his family was heavily involved. He ran the company from 1966 to 1981, introducing new products and buying toy company Fisher-Price. From 1984 to 1989 he served as ambassador to Norway.

Bob was a dynamic presence in the Illinois Republican Party and a national committeeman from 1964 to 1972. In the early 1990s, he served on the nation’s Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.

Together with Barbara, who died in 1993, Bob had four children, three of whom went to Princeton. To Bob’s wife, Lillan, whom he married in 1995, and his children, the class extends its sympathy.