Robert O. Biern ’54

Bob died at his Annapolis home after a long illness. A native of Huntingdon, W.Va., he prepared for Princeton at Phillips Academy. He majored in English at Princeton and was active in the Campus Club Drive and worked for the Princeton Tiger. He graduated from Johns Hopkins, where he later taught. Bob was a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the American College of Physicians. He also was a member of the Council of Clinical Cardiology of the American Heart Assn., The American Society of Echocardiography and the Assn. of Black Cardiologists. He belonged to the Princeton Club of New York and was president of the board of friends of St. John's College. Dubbed "Dr. Bear" by his devoted patients, Bob had a major role in creating one of Maryland's early coronary care units at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis in 1967 and was director of that unit for 17 years. He also directed the hospital's noninvasive cardiac laboratory.

To Mary Catherine, his wife, and two daughters, Catherine and Charlotte, the class extends its sympathy.

The Class of 1954