Robert T. Pottenger Jr. ’50

Bob, a retired allergist and immunologist, died May 2, 2014.

Born in San Francisco, Bob graduated from San Marino High School in South Pasadena, Calif. At Princeton, where his father was in the Class of 1924, he majored in biology. Bob played freshman football, participated in wrestling and track, and was a member of Court Club.

He earned a medical degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1954. A yearlong internship was followed by two years in the Air Force in California. After his discharge, Bob spent a year in general practice before moving to Hawaii to be a physician in a sugar plantation clinic. By our 25th reunion, he had returned to the mainland, where he pursued a private allergy practice in Pasadena for more than three decades before retiring to Minden, Nev.

He was instrumental in editing Pottenger’s Cats — A Study in Nutrition, which included a groundbreaking study conducted by his uncle between 1932 and 1942.

From the Columbia Medicine Magazine, we learned that Bob was predeceased by his wife, Ann, and is survived by seven children and 13 grandchildren.