Robert P. Rowe ’44

Bob Rowe, known to his classmates as Fido, died April 26, 2012, in Mystic, Conn.

Bob graduated from Exeter. At Princeton, he was the winner of the middleweight Cane Spree, played on the undefeated varsity lacrosse team, and majored in chemical engineering. His roommates were Mark “Spider” Hall and Art Barber. A family treasure for 68 years has been one-half of the Nassau Hall bell clapper Bob stole with his roommate.

After 3 1/2 years in the Army Medical Corps with service in Europe, he returned to Princeton with his wife, Adeline, and graduated in 1948. After doing research in plastics at Princeton, he earned a Ph.D. in pharmacology at Yale.

Bob was a pharmaceutical professor at the University of Missouri and later an executive in a New Jersey pharmaceutical company from which he retired and moved to Mystic. He enjoyed sailing with friends at Mason’s Island Yacht Club and was a volunteer at Mystic Seaport Museum. His special hobby was ham radio.

A regular at major reunions, Bob is survived by Adeline; sons Robert, Richard, and Fred; daughter Sarah; nine grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. His late cousin was Reginald Rowe ’44. His warm personality and keen sense of humor shall be missed.