Robert Y. Hinshaw ’39

Bob, a public-relations executive and consultant, died in his sleep July 22, 2013, at his summer home in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 96.

He was born in New York City July 4, 1917. He was a Quaker, studied political science at Princeton, and served in World War II as an Army lieutenant junior grade. In the 1930s, Bob worked as a reporter for famed editor William Allen White’s Emporia Gazette in Kansas. From the 1940s through the 1980s, he served as a close adviser to the presidential campaigns of Tom Dewey, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan. During Dewey’s 1940 campaign, Bob met and subsequently married Lillias Dulles, daughter of John Foster Dulles 1908 (Secretary of State from 1953 to 1959).

Bob had many business interests within the United States and in Europe, especially in the fields of energy and transportation. He also was an avid tennis player. One of his greatest joys in life was helping to teach promising tennis players in the community.

Lillias died of cancer in 1987. Bob is survived by his children, Janet Hinshaw-Thomas, David Y. Hinshaw ’66, Foster D. Hinshaw, and Lila Erlandson; and four grandchildren.