Robert S. Pasley ’33

Bob Pasley died June 21, 1995, in Sarasota, Fla.

He came to Princeton from Regis H.S. in N.Y.C. He served as circulation manager of the Prince, belonged to Arbor Inn, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

Bob went to Cornell Law School, where he was on the law review and made Order of the Coif. In 1936 he became an associate with one of the leading N.Y.C. firms, Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft.

In 1942 he joined the Army as a private. The Army sent him to the Judge Advocate General's Officer Candidate School. He served in Europe as a JAG officer until the end of the war. After the war, he continued as counsel with the Navy until 1953. He also taught law at Catholic Univ. in Washington, D.C. In 1954 Bob became a professor of law at Cornell and served in that capacity until his retirement in 1976. He taught a wide range of subjects there and was a visiting professor at a number of the country's leading law schools. He wrote numerous law review articles and coauthored a case book on government contracts.

Bob is survived by his wife, Mary, his two daughters, Nancy and Mary Pasley, his son, Robert Jr., and two granddaughters, Virginia and Heather.

The Class of 1933