Robert W. Marks ’45

Bob Marks died July 6, 2013.

Bob entered Princeton from the Kiski School in Pennsylvania, following in the footsteps of his brothers Wilson ’36 and James ’37. He joined Cannon Club and played freshman football but accelerated to receive a civil engineering degree in 1944 before leaving for Navy service with the Seabees, assigned to Guam.

Bob was among those who were sent to Cornell under the Navy program, and he later commented that he enjoyed being a member of the varsity golf team at Cornell while he was awaiting departure for the Pacific. The fringe benefit of his transfer to Cornell was meeting his future wife, Barbara Inman, whom he married before leaving for his service.

After his war service, he joined the Finger Lakes Press in Corning, N.Y. He became its president and remained with it for his lifetime.

Barbara died just one week before Bob. He is survived by his daughters, Sarah, Mary Linn, and Jamie; and by his son, Robert. The class expresses its sympathy to the family.