Robert W. Chamberlin Jr. ’51

A Shaker Heights (Ohio) High graduate, Bob was an engineering major best known as a two-way end on our undefeated football team and center-forward on our basketball team. He joined Cannon Club and was active in a variety of campus organizations. Roommates were football captain George Chandler, Cliff Kurrus, and Merle Schmidt.

Bob embarked on a remarkable medical career following Harvard Medical, Mass. General, Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Hopkins, and two years as an Army pediatrician at Fort Bragg. Starting as a psychological pediatrician in clinical practice, teaching, and research at University of Rochester Medical School, he was part of a landmark research team that pioneered community-based “New Pediatrics.”

Leaving Rochester at age 52, he earned an MPH from Hopkins and embarked on a career in public health that included a year in Cameroon, two years on a Montana Indian reservation, three years in Germany, director of the New Hampshire Child Development Program, developer of child resource centers, and lecturer at Dartmouth Medical School.

Retiring to Sanibel, Fla., in 1999 after receiving several awards for his vision, dedication, and leadership in developing family support services, Bob died Sept. 9, 2022, in Fort Myers, Fla. Survivors include his second wife, Sylvia, and four daughters.