Robert M. Barron ’48

Bob grew up in the Philadelphia area and graduated from Germantown Academy in 1944. He survived two years of Army active duty, including combat in the Battle of Okinawa, before entering Princeton in 1946.

At Princeton he majored in psychology and was in Terrace Club. He graduated in 1950 “with a bumper crop of veterans,” and said he had a “reasonably fulfilling” career in marketing, sales, and sales management. He also founded and ran a startup company, arranging funding for new businesses.

Bob and his wife, Janet, were involved in music — Bob on piano, Janet in choral groups — and both pursued advanced music studies.

In 1984 they retired to Vero Beach, Fla. Bob died there Jan. 17, 2013, at the age of 86. Janet died in 2008. Bob is survived by his son, Robert R., and two granddaughters.