Robert Jenks Whipple ’34

Bob Whipple, who retired just last year from the practice of law, which he thoroughly enjoyed for 50-plus years, died in his native Worcester, Mass., Dec. 27, 1997, from complications following successful open-heart surgery before Thanksgiving. He was 85.

A former assistant district attorney for Worcester County, Bob was active in many phases of community life in his hometown as, at one time or another, chairman of the United Appeal, vice-chairman of the local Red Cross, director of the local council of Boy Scouts, vice-chairman and trustee of the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology (where the birth-control pill was developed), and secretary and trustee of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. In 1980 we presented him with our Award for Outstanding Achievement.

In WWII he served with the 26th Inf. Div. from 1941 until his separation, in 1945, as a major.

Bob and his wife, Anne (Caghlan), whom he married in 1960, had a house in Bermuda and a cottage on Martha's Vineyard, and they traveled extensively. Memorable trips were down the Danube (1990), to Egypt and Israel ('92), England ('94), the Netherlands and Belgium ('95), and up the Rhine from Amsterdam to Switzerland ('96).

Surviving, besides "Annie," are Jeffrey, Wendy LeRoux, Michael Pollak, Ellen Powers, and nine grandchildren. To them we offer sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1934