Robert G. Greeley ’44

One of the great Tigers of our class, Bob died of a heart attack on June 3, 2002, in Milton, Mass.

A native of Portland, Maine, and a lifelong resident of Milton and graduate of Milton Academy, Bob roomed with Bill Kester and Joe Walsh, played varsity football and baseball, majored in psychology, and was in Tiger Inn, before he went into the service in 1942. He served as a Navy beach master involved in seven South Pacific assault landings, and he retired as a commander in the Reserve in 1970.

He joined the family-owned New England Storage Warehouse Co. in Boston after the war and guided it to become the nation's largest record storage and management business before he sold it in 1986. Besides his Milton home, he built a home in Bermuda, which was the headquarters for a '44 mini-reunion in 1992.

Bob made every major reunion except the 5th and the 15th. He gave the class and the university an unusual gift from his Milton home of a four-ton piece of granite that was once used as a hitching post; it is now a permanent memorial bench near Nassau Hall to our 22 classmates who died in WWII

The class extends sympathy to his wife, Mary Jane (daughter of Charlie Caldwell '25), daughters Susan, Sally, and Jenny, and stepchildren Holly Clarke '82 and Christopher Getch '84. Bob has been buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

The Class of 1944