Robert E. Fenstermacher ’46

BOB DIED Jan. 12, 1991, after a lengthy, difficult illness: quadruple bypass and acute leukemia.

Bob graduated from Salisbury before joining us, left for service in the Army Medical Corps, and then went on to Washington Univ. in St. Louis to continue his premedical studies. He received his medical degree at U.Penn. in 1948 and served his internship at Allentown, Penn. Hospital.

Bob served in the Korean War as a physician and from 1950 until 1975, had a private practice in Allentown. He then reopened Allentown Hospital's emergency department which had been closed for eight months. Until he retired in 1987, he was Chairman of the Allentown Emergency Dept. Bob served on the medical board of the hospital and was a former director. He was also a director of the American Academy of General practitioners and the American Academy of Emergency Physicians. He was a member of Christ Lutheran Church in Allentown.

'We recall Bob as being extremely warm and friendly and genuinely caring about others; a neat guy. he was lucid up to the morning of his death and throughout his illness strove to comfort his family. At Princeton and throughout his life, up to the very end, our Bob was a I'd= act." Bob is survived by his widow, Lorraine; his daughters Margaret~ Denise, Diane, Donna, and Ellen; his sister~ Elizabeth; and eight grandchildren. To diem all we send our condolences.

The Class of 1946