Robert E. Field ’52

Bob came to Princeton from Messick High School in Memphis, Tenn. He was a regional scholarship holder and majored in philosophy. He joined Prospect, where he was chair of the house committee and on the bicker committee. Other connections were the Glee Club, Students for Democratic Action, French Club, and Orange Key schools committee. He was manager of the calendar committee. Bob roomed with Davis Roach, Dan Wilkes, and John Thompson.

After graduation he earned a Fulbright scholarship to study French literature in Paris. He married Mary Ann Brown, and they had two boys, Scott and Jonathan.

Bob worked for Procter & Gamble for some years, then taught math for two years in a Memphis independent school before taking up work in accounting for Holiday Inn. All of this happened before our 25th reunion.

We hadn’t heard from him since, but we just learned that he died May 9, 2012, in Tucson. His gravestone bears the words “Proudly served his country in the Korean War, Germany 1953-1955.”