Robert E. Gajdusek ’46

A prolific author and poet, Robin died peacefully at home in California June 26, 2003.

Born in Yonkers, N.Y., he entered Princeton in Jan. 1943 after graduating from Roosevelt HS. He served in the Army from 1943-46, graduating from Princeton in 1949 as an English major. He earned graduate degrees at Columbia, the U. of London, and UC Berkeley. He taught at Berkeley, and at Kansas, George Washington, Hunter, and San Francisco State, where he retired as English professor emeritus.

Robin published nine volumes of poetry, two of short stories, many articles and papers, and Hemingway's Paris (1978) and Resurrection: A War Journey (1997), the gripping memoir of his Nov. 1944 serious wounding and capture at Metz, France, as an infantryman. He also published photographs, received awards for ceramic sculpture, and traveled in Cuba, Italy, and France to study.

First married to Bettye-Jo Sode, then to Linda C. Gajdusek, he is survived by sons Karl and Mark, and a brother, Carlton.

To them, the class joins with his many friends and admirers to extend its sympathy.

The Class of 1946