Robert William Doyle ’35

Bob, also known as Red, died June 23, 1998, at a nursing home in Rhode Island. He was 84. His wife, the former Mary Martha McMillen, had died in 1969. The family had lived in Morristown, N.J., Providence, R.I., and on Martha's Vineyard.

Red came to Princeton from Poly Prep, majored in economics with second group honors, and received a major P as a member of Princeton's first national-champion lacrosse team. He roomed for four years with John Durkee, who died in 1977.

After earning a law degree from Columbia in 1938, Red spent his career with New York Telephone Co., retiring in 1974 as general litigation attorney. During WWII, he served in the Army as a major in the Office of the Judge Advocate General and continued in reserve status after the war. When he retired from business, the family moved to the Vineyard, and he announced that they had become "year-round summer residents." Bob was always a loyal Princetonian, and recently he had made a substantial donation to an endowment for innovation in undergraduate education.

He leaves a son, Robert M., a daughter, Martha Ann Gagnon, and three grandchildren. He will be remembered as a gentle man with a dry wit and devotion to his family. His classmates mourn his death and send most sincere sympathy.

The Class of 1935