Robert Louis Gensler ’42

Bob, of Petaluma, Calif., died June 12, 2003, from complications of Parkinson's disease.

A graduate of Newark Academy, he was an honors major in chemistry at Princeton. He was on the gym team and a member of Gateway Club. During World War II he spent three years in Army Ordnance as a sergeant in the European theater.

Bob had two careers — first in the chemical industry and second in law. After a stint with Heyden Chemical Corp. in Princeton, during which he met and married Sally Vaughan Field, Bob moved Sally and their children, John and Peter, to Cincinnati, where he worked for Procter & Gamble in product development. In 1970 he began nighttime courses at Salmon P. Chase College of Law. Five years later he graduated, passed the bar, quit P&G, and began his law career in the Hamilton County (Cincinnati) Public Defender's Office.

After retirement in 1986, Bob and Sally moved to Marin County, Calif., near their younger son, Peter. In 1997, they were named volunteers of the year in Marin County. Bob and Sally, who died in 2002, will be remembered for their volunteer work in the local public defender's office.

The class conveys deepest condolences to John, and to Peter and his two sons.

The Class of 1942