Robert Raymond Negreira ’49

BOB NEGREIRA DIED Mar. 23, 1993, following a severe heart attack.

He was born Aug. 31, 1924, in Waterbury, Conn., and attended Crosby H.S. and Cheshire Academy, playing on the football team at both schools. Bob served as a pilot in the navy air corps from Dec. 1942Nov. 1945. At Princeton, he majored in economics, winning departmental honors, and was a member of Cannon Club.

Bob married Ellen M. Kelly of Waterbury in Dec. 1948, and graduated from the university the following June. After a brief stint in insurance sales, he went to work in production control with U.S. Time Corp. in Middlebury, Conn. In 1955 he was transferred to Dundee, Scotland, for three years as manager of Timex, Ltd., the British plant of U.S. Time, and he enjoyed traveling frequently to the Continent with Ellen.

After five years back in Middlebury, Bob was transferred to Hong Kong as managing director of the Times: plant there. In the late '70s, he returned to the Middlebury home office as manager of materials for Timex. About 10 years later, he joined the Bendix Cheshire Corp., in Cheshire Conn., as production control manager, retiring from that position in 1989, and continuing to live in Middlebury.

Bob had no children. To his widow, Ellen, we extend our deepest sympathies.

The Class of 1949