Robert V. McMenimen ’40

Bob "Mickey" McMenimen was proud and happy to be a newspaperman, "a career to which I looked forward since I was 12 years old," he wrote in our 40th reunion yearbook.

Following graduation, he first worked as a reporter for the Plainfield Courier News and then for the Newark Sunday Call, before settling at the Newark Evening News, where he rose to become managing editor. During WWII, he served as a Marine Corps combat correspondent in the Philippines and during the occupation of Nagasaki, Japan.

Bob came to Princeton from Governor Dummer Academy, was an English major, and a member of Campus Club. During these years, he dated Eleanor De Camp of West Orange, N.J., a fellow New York Yankee fan, to whom he was married 60 years (they spent some of their honeymoon in Yankee Stadium).

Following his retirement from journalism, the McMenimens were often in residence at their summer home in Ticonderoga, N.Y. Bob died in Maplewood on May 21, 2001.

He is survived by Eleanor, two sons, a daughter, two grandchildren, and one great-grandchild, all of whom have our warmest condolences.

The Class of 1940