Robert J. McGee ’53

Bob, who arrived from Clifford Scott High School in East Orange, N.J., and began majoring in chemical engineering but switched disciplines and graduated summa cum laude in English, died Aug. 10, 2011, in Londonderry, N.H. He was 79.

He roomed three years with Lou Waddell, who remembers coming into their room afternoons to find Bob on the sofa rapidly reading English literature to catch up. He did indeed. Bob was a masterful debater with Whig-Clio. Lou also recalls Bob and Vic Sidel heatedly arguing about the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers Communist controversy over meals at Prospect Club.

After serving in the Navy, Bob graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, clerked for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, then practiced at Boston’s Palmer & Dodge, where he was senior tax partner, and taught at Boston University Law School as adjunct professor.

Survivors include his wife, the former Donna Maria Regis; son Christopher Regis-McGee; and Bob’s two daughters from a previous marriage, Suzanne Hayward and Jennifer Hayward *92. The class sends sincere sympathy and fond remembrances to Bob’s family and friends.