Robert L. Dwight ’45 *46

Bob Dwight, engineer and conservationist, died March 22, 2014.

After Pearl Harbor, Bob enlisted in the Navy V-12 program, pursuing engineering at Cornell and midshipmen’s school at Columbia. At Princeton, he received a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering, followed by a master’s degree in applied mechanics from Harvard.

In 1954, Bob moved to Maryland and began his 30-year administrative career at Westinghouse’s Air Arm Division. Projects there included production of the space camera for the first moonwalk.

Bob assisted the Committee to Save Assateague Island, Va., in protecting Assateague Island National Seashore from development. Bob was a former board member and longtime supporter of what is now known as the Assateague Island Trust. Bob also funded renovations to allow Baltimore’s Cylburn Nature Museum to continue exhibiting the Baltimore Bird Club’s “Birds of Maryland” collection.

He founded the National Electronics Museum, which opened in 1983 and features historic avionics equipment, and served as curator and president. In 2000, the museum established the Robert L. Dwight Science Scholarship for outstanding University of Maryland engineering students.

Bob is survived by five children, Linda, Robert Jr. ’79, James, Jane Seibert, and John; and three grandchildren. He was divorced from the late Nancy Cooke and predeceased by his spouse, Alice Heasley Dwight.