Robert Mayer ’37

Bob Mayer died Apr. 1, 2001. His wife of 58 years, Ann, died in 1997, but he left good friend Betty Kahn, sons Andy and Jeff, four grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

At Peddie, Bob was into soccer, publications, and dramatics. At Princeton he majored in philosophy and was awarded the Alexander Guthrie McCosh prize, was photographic editor of the Pictorial, and was a member of the Philosophy Forum and Arbor Inn. After two years of stock marketing, Bob enrolled at the Stevens Institute of Technology, where he received a degree in civil engineering. Pearl Harbor meant a job with Brewster Aero Corp., where he ended up as assistant coordinator. In 1944 he was a design engineer for Lear Avia, makers of aircraft electronics and also took an MC from Brooklyn Polytech. He founded his own design firm, Robert Mayer Associates. Later, Bob became the director of several corporations, including Samson United of Rochester. He found his avocation manufacturing industrial lubricants for Ore-Lube Corp. and the Tribology Tech Lube. Bob was renowned in this field, getting published in several industrial journals.

He was a lieutenant-colonel in the Civil Air Patrol and spent most of his spare time playing bridge. He was on the Princeton Club of New York bridge team with Van Tippett.

The Class of 1937