Robert Kumler Landis Jr. ’36

BOB DIED Dec. 31, 1991, at a nursing home in Jamestown, Ohio, after suffering nine years from Alzheimer's disease.

Bob prepared at Oakwood High School in Dayton, Ohio. At Princeton he majored in economics, played lightweight football and rugby, and was a member of Tiger Inn. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1939.

Bob was a special agent for the F.B.I. from 1942 to 1943. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1944 and was discharged in 1946 as a first lieutenant. During his term of active duty he was an air combat intelligence officer in the Pacific Theater and in China.

Bob retired in 1983 as a senior partner in the law firm of Bieser, Greer and Landis of Dayton. He had been a president of the Dayton Bar Assn., chairman of the Dayton chapter of the American Red Cross, former president of the Oakwood School Board of Education, chairman of the board of zoning appeals, and a director of Gem Savings, Dayton Malleable Iron, and Sinclair Community College.

He is survived by his widow, Dorothea L. Landis; sons John F. and Robert III; daughter Mrs. Peter Beardsley; and six grandchildren.

Bob will be remembered by his many friends in the Class.

The Class of 1936