Robert William Schleck ’49

BOB SCHLECK, a retired research analyst, teacher, and Foreign Service officer, who lived in Mount Rainier, Md., died of cardiac arrest on Nov. 29, 1989. He was buried with military honors at Arlington Nat'l. Cemetery.

Bob was born June 10, 1925, in Elizabeth, N.J., and prepared for college at St. Benedict's Prep School. During WWII he served in the 17th Airborne Division from Aug. 1943 until Dec. 1945 in the E.T.O., and was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. At Princeton he majored in S.P.I.A., graduating with high honors, and won the S.P.I.A. travel scholarship in 1948 and the Lynde Debate Prize in 1949. He was a member of Whig-Clio, president of the International Relations Club, a member of the Republican Club and of Court Club.

After Princeton, Bob earned a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia and his Ph.D. in public administration and finance from N.Y.U. In 1951 he became an intelligence analyst with the State Department, and later was second secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv during the Suez Crisis in 1956.

Bob went on to a career as a research analyst in Louisiana, N.Y., and Washington, D.C., principally with the Economic Development Council of N.Y., and the Tax Foundation Inc. In 1966 he married Anne Louise Luckemeier. They have two sons. Most recently Bob was a senior research analyst with the Library of Congress. He had visited 22 foreign countries, and derived great satisfaction from teaching and lecturing on geopolitics, economics, and modem world history.

Bob is survived by his wife, Anne Louise, and his two sons, Paul William and Peter Michael, all of Mount Rainier, Md. Our hearts go out to them at the loss of this most exceptional man.