Robert Ryckman Dunn ’50

Bob Dunn died as the result of a fall at his home in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Mar. 5, 1999, less than a month before his 70th birthday.

Bob prepared for Princeton at Stevens H.S., in Claremont, N.H., where he was a member of the school band, the Glee Club, and the Chess Club. While at Princeton, he was a member of the Westminster Foundation, the Witherspoon Society, and the Chess Club. Illness forced Bob to leave Princeton in 1948.

He spent three years in the Army as a chaplain's assistant and in June 1954 graduated from Castleton Teachers College in Castleton, Vt. In 1959 he obtained a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Andover Newton Theological School and was ordained into the Christian Ministry. His first assignment was teaching at Maunaolu College in Paia, Maui, Hawaii, and preaching at two small area churches. He subsequently held two pastorates in the Congregational Church at Dracut, Mass., and in North Woodstock, N.H. In addition, he taught briefly at Bryant Stratton business school in Boston and worked for Aetna Insurance

In 1967 Bob was diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent his last years alone in San Juan. Bob is survived by two daughters, Rebecca Wilder and Sally Bellows, and a son, Robert B., to whom the class sends its deepest sympathies.

The Class of 1950