Robert W. Jackson ’37

CHEMICAL ENGINEER Bob Jackson died July 14, 1992, of cancer. He is survived by his widow, Janina; sons Robert and Thomas; daughter Kathy; and brother Ted, also '37. Bob prepared at North Plainfield H.S., where he was on the tennis team and publications board. At Princeton he majored in chemical engineering, winning a certificate for highest freshman chemical engineer and graduating with honors. He won the tennis championshipp of the senior class.

After three and a half years with the Permutit Co., doing chemical engineering pilot plant research work in manufacturing waterconditioning equipment, Bob worked for DuPont for the next 42 years. By 1947 he was supervisor of the coating area in the photo products division, in charge of four shifts numbering some 200 men. In 1957 he was responsible for 90 personnel in research service work. He continued with research, production supervision, and quality assurance, before retiring in 1982 to form his own company, A.S.Q., Inc. (Applied Statistics for Quality) and consulted with companies such as DuPont, I.B.M., Avery International and I.C.I. Americas. During the war he was a member of the local decontamination unit with Civilian Defense and returned to Princeton for a concentrated governmentsponsored course in statistical quality control.

As a personal note, he wrote in 1955: "Late birth Robert news: Dwight Jackson, born June 10, 1955, in true tiger spirit at nine weeks helped his parents celebrate 1st wedding anniversary Aug. 14 by sleeping quietly through the night at the Princeton Inn." At our 50th he wrote, "a marvelous fourday reunion." Our deepest condolences to the family.

The Class of 1937