Robert M. Crooker ’37

BOB CROOKER died Nov. 26, 1989, leaving a widow, four sons, and five grandchildren. His first wife was Isabel, mother of his first three sons, Richard, William, and John, and sister of our Tom Rankin.

As Robert Jr. '83 writes, "Dad's gone now. Slipped away over Thanksgiving at home as peacefully as he could have, considering his long battle with emphysema. A quiet, reserved man, Dad always impressed me with his breadth of knowledge, from Shakespearean quotations he always seemed to remember to his ability to help me with the 'new math' in high school. But the legacy for which he will always be remembered is his role as a father. "

Bob prepared at Taft, where he was on the soccer team, radio club, and literary magazine. At Princeton he majored in history and was on the Prince; his claim to fame was an interview with Albert Einstein. After three years as a market analyst for a newspaper representative firm in New York and taking night courses at Columbia, Bob served for over four years in the Navy as a communications officer, half the time in Brazil. He received a commendation for devising an ingenious system of improving communications and emerged as a lieutenant commander. From 1946 to 1963, Bob was a TV electronics engineer with Motorola, Burroughs, and Hazeltine Corp. He then was self-employed in the mail-order printing of pen-and-ink sketches on stationery and cards until 1985. To the family we send our deepest condolences.

The Class of 1937