Robert Vincent Parmele ’75

BOB PARMELE DIED SUDDENLY May 31, 1990, at his home in Middletown, N.Y. He came to Princeton from Roscoe, N.Y., and majored in the Woodrow Wilson School, graduating with honors.

After Princeton Bob briefly attended law school at Columbia Univ. before transferring to its Ph.D. program in political science. While there, he was assistant to the Chancellor's Office of Policy Analysis, Research, and Planning, as well as chairman of the Dept. of Political Science Graduate Students Assn.

Bob was active in numerous political campaigns, including Morris Udall's 1976 presidential bid. He worked as a college lecturer, as an aide to N.Y.C. Councilman Henry Stem, and recently as a computer programmer for the N.Y. State Hospital system.

Bob's passion was politics, and his gift was writing. Possessing keen original insight into the political aspect of life, which extended far beyond simple electoral mechanics, he wrote in an effortless metaphorical stream of philosophy, history, and popular culture.

We shall miss Bob's unrelenting intellectual honesty and wry sense of humor. The Class extends sincere sympathy to his family.

The Class of 1975