Born in Brooklyn, he prepared for Princeton at Brooklyn Tech High School. His college major was biology. Bob left Princeton in his junior year. He later attended medical school at the University of Paris and the University of Amsterdam. While there he met his first wife, Adrienne. They had two children.
Upon his return to the United States, he studied psychiatry under Anna Freud at the Menninger Clinic in Kansas. In 1979 Bob moved to Washington, D.C., to work for the State Department. In 1980 he went to Wiesbaden, Germany, as part of a team of psychiatrists to meet the 52 hostages released by Iran.
His later assignment was to work with the State Department employees who lived in South America.
He met his second wife, Lillian, in 1984 while vacationing in Curacao. They moved to Southampton, N.Y., in 1987, where he worked as a psychiatrist at Maryhaven in Riverhead, N.Y.
The class extends condolences to his wife and his children.