Robert E. Lancaster ’42

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BOB DIED ]an. 11, 1994, in Pittsburgh, his lifelong home. An engineer, be had spent his entire working career (after the war) with the Weinman Pump & Supply Co.

Bob prepared at Shadyside Academy, and at Princeton, he majored in chemical engineering and was a member of Key & Seal. During the war, he worked for the Glen L. Martin Co. He then joined Weinman, and became its chief engineer and then its v.p.

To his widow, Mary Ellen; his daughter, Laurel; his stepson, John~ and his three grandchildren, the class offers its sincerest sympathies.

The Class of 1942

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