Robert Ehlers Waite ’28 *29

Robert Ehlers Waite died Nov. 12, 1997, in Santa Fe.

He grew up in Roselle Park, N.J., attending Roselle H.S. He earned a BA in economics and then an MA in 1929. He studied philosophy at Oxford and Heidelberg in 1931 and German Federalism at Kiel U. in 1932. He studied economics and history at the graduate schools of Yale, Princeton, and Columbia. In 1943 he received a BS in engineering at Columbia School of Engineering.

Robert was married to Fausra for 46 years. Their wedding was in the University Chapel. After her death, he married Judith Stewart, who survives him.

At the time of our 25th reunion Robert was an electrical engineer with General Electric. He retired in 1972 from Valley Forge Aerospace and moved to Santa Fe. In retirement he was consultant to Westinghouse ARAMCO, investigator for the prosecuting attorney of the Stare Supreme Court, and coproducer of a public opinion program on a local FM station. With all this he maintained his avid interests in reading, music, and the welfare of Princeton. He has left his house in trust to Princeton and established a book fund at Princeton in memory of his first wife. How we wish he could have attended our 70th reunion! The class extends its sympathy to Judith and thanks her for providing information about Robert.