Robert S. Allyn ’46

Maine’s Portland Press Herald wrote eloquently after Bob died Aug. 16, 2013, that “Bob enjoyed life for the simple stuff … any athletic event involving his grandchildren, tennis, ice cream at any time or playing bridge until any hour, greeting and making a friend of any dog, Ivy League football, singing, and trips to the dump to find wood for kindling to create gifts for friends and neighbors.”

Bob taught English and math at Choate School for 12 years, and was assistant headmaster for three years at Maine’s North Yarmouth Academy. He taught for three years at Yarmouth High School, and worked for 13 years at Maine Surgical Supply Co.

On Bob’s occasional trips to Tiger football games in Hanover, Cambridge, Providence, and New Haven, he wrote in our 50th-reunion yearbook that he mounted on his secondhand Dodge Colt “my custom-made roof carrier, boldly painted a cheerful orange and black.” How all ’46ers would love to have been greeted by it.

He was survived by his wife, Nancy; sons John ’80 and Robert (“Tad”); daughter Dorothy (“Dee”); and eight grandchildren. His daughter Amy predeceased him.