Robert G. Pagenkopf ’37

Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir expert Peg Pagenkopf died Mar. 20. He leaves his wife of 53 years, Coletta, daughters Jane, Julie, and Nora Ann, and granddaughter Megan.

At Lake Forest Academy he was active in football, basketball, baseball, and track, and sang in the Glee Club. At Princeton he was on the track team but left at the end of sophomore year, finally settling down with the Edward Hines Lumber Co., where he worked in logging camps and mills all over Washington and Oregon before selling lumber wholesale for two years in Chicago.

He entered the navy as an apprentice seaman and was discharged two and a half years later as a chief warrant officer. By 1946 he was an assistant manager of a big pine lumber mill in Oregon and by 1950 mayor of Hines and treas. of the Harney County Chamber. Later he was with Fleck Controls, from which he retired in 1979 as senior v.p. He worked part-time until he was 83. Fishing the northern Wisconsin inland lakes became a hobby and his golf was near pro until his eyesight began to fail in 1982. He was an avid gardener and a serious fan of the Milwaukee Brewers and Green Bay Packers.

The Class of 1937