Robert George Erdody ’51

Bob grew up on Long Island and graduated from Wellington C. Mepham High School. At Princeton he was a member of Cannon Club, played freshman and JV football, wrestled, and majored in mechanical engineering. After rooming with John Bunnell, Bruce Saffery, and Jack Sheble in his early Princeton years, he married Millicent Edgehill in September of his senior year. 

Joining DuPont upon graduation, Bob remained with the Wilmington, Del.-based company until his retirement in 1990. As a group leader in the design division of DuPont’s engineering department, Bob designed machinery for chemical processes, a task that took him around the world to do design work for new plants and new products.

Bob was an active member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and he and Millie were founding members of the Limestone Presbyterian Church in Wilmington. They remained residents of Wilmington, with summers in Stone Harbor, N.J., until Millie passed away in 2014 and Bob succumbed to COVID-19 Sept. 19, 2021.