Robert Gumalia Gallagher ’49

BOB DIED Mar. 12, 1991, at Flagler Memorial Hospital, Bunnell, Fla., of complications from emphysema.

He was born Nov. 3, 1924, in Albany, N.Y., and prepared for college at Ravena H.S., where he was a member of the student council, dramatics club, and glee club, and was on the football, basketball, and baseball teams. He attended Duke Univ. for one semester and then enlisted in the Marines, serving in the Pacific Theater from Feb. 1943 to Nov. 1945. He transferred to Princeton from Duke at the end of that year.

At Princeton, Bob majored in economics, was a member of Tiger Inn, and played on the varsity baseball team. After Princeton, Bob worked for Goodyear

Tire & Rubber Co., and took graduate work at New York State Teachers College. He m tried Helen Wheeler in June 1953, and they had one son, T. Scott, born June 15, 1963. For many years Bob worked as head of the Investigation Unit of the Claims and Litigation Bureau of the New York State Attorney General's Office, retiring in 1978 because of ill health. In 1980, he and his family moved to Florida.

Bob is survived by his widow, his son, and two granddaughters, all of Palm Coast, Fla., and a brother, William F. Gallagher Jr. '45, of Saranac Lake, N.Y. Our hearts go out to all of them in their loss.

The Class of 1949