Robert W. McLaughlin ’21 *26

ROBERT W. McLAUGHLIN died on Nov. 30, 1989 after a brief illness. Born in Kalamazoo, Mich. in 1900, he prepared at Erasmus Hall and at Princeton was a member of Cloister Inn.

Bob earned his M.F.A. at Princeton in 1926 and followed architecture all his professional career. After studying in Europe on a Proctor Traveling Fellowship, he became a founding partner in Holden, McLaughlin and Associates in 1930, a firm specializing in public housing, schools, and hospitals. He co-founded American Homes, Inc., producers of prefabricated homes, was a consultant on the design of the U.S. Embassy in London, and held some 30 patents for new building technologies.

In 1952 Bob was appointed director of the School of Architecture at Princeton, a post he held until his retirement in 1965.

Bob was an active alumnus, serving on various class committees and as class president from 1961 to 1966. He and Katherine Thurber were married in 1933. She survives him, as well as son, Robert T.; a daughter, Meredith Knowlton; and five grandchildren. The Class extends sincere sympathy to them all.

The Class of 1921