Robert W. Maynard ’45

Bob died May 8, 2017.

Bob graduated from the Lawrenceville School. At Princeton he played freshman and JV soccer and baseball, and championship intramural baseball. He was on the Freshman Council, Orange Key, Inter-Club Committee, and Cottage Club.

He attended Officer Candidate School at Fort Sill and served as battery officer, demolition and intelligence Army Field Artillery, Office of Strategic Services in Kunming and Shanghai in World War II. For a time he was aide to Gen. William Donovan. After the war, he graduated magna cum laude in international affairs.

Bob attended Harvard Law School and practiced with Evans, Hand, Evans & Allabough until the Army Reserve called him to serve in Army Counterintelligence in Korea. After this he worked for United Shoe Machinery Corp. as foreign counsel, then as vice president and general counsel. He subsequently joined Honeywell as vice president, general counsel, and secretary, retiring as senior vice president of legal affairs.

Bob was director of the World Affairs Council and of the Princeton Alumni Association of New England. He was a member of the board of governors of the Pan American Society of New England, the Legal Affairs Committee of the International Center of New England, the Colonial Church of Edina, and the Minneapolis Club, the Minikahda Club, Fox and Hounds Club, and the Skylight Club.

He was predeceased by brother Arthur ’42. He is survived by his nephew Wynfield Maynard and nieces Andrea Cassel, Barbara Campbell, Katherine Knight, Joanne Erwin, and Alison Baetzel.