Robert H. Myers ’40

On May 11, 2002, we lost a loyal Princetonian and Marylander. Bob prepared at St. Albans, and at Princeton he majored in politics and earned departmental honors when he graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School. Bob's club was Cannon.

His WWII years were spent in the office of Naval Intelligence with assignments in the White House Map Room to cover the North African invasion; in the State Department as a courier in South America; back to the Map Room during the Roosevelt, Truman, and part of the Eisenhower administrations. He attained the rank of lieutenant commander.

Subsequently, Bob studied law at George Washington U. and practiced in his father's firm of Williams, Myers & Quiggle. This led to his career interest in tax-exempt organizations; he helped start the predecessor of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, eventually serving as chairman and trustee.

Travel, gardening, fly fishing, and bird hunting were his other interests, along with memberships in the Chevy Chase, Oyster Harbors, Oglethorpe, Rolling Rock, and the Princeton Clubs of DC and New York.

To his family: sons Robert Jr. '69, Eric, and Stephen; daughter Antoinette Collins; brother Richard '45; cousin James Kreder '60; and grandson Stuart '02, Bob's classmates extend their sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1940