Robert Zane Collings Jr. ’34

BOB COLLINGS, who served as a physician/commander in the Navy for 13 years before settling in rural Arizona, where he practiced for another 27 years before retiring in 1979, died Feb. 25, 1990, at the age of 79.

In Arizona Bob had his own small clinic and a busy practice "embracing," as he put it, "all that the word 'general' includes." Many of his patients—40 to 60 a day on average—were Indians from nearby cotton camps. "On Saturday night after payday," he recalled not long ago, "there were shootings, knifings, and chain whip¬pings." With all that, he practiced obstetrics, and over the years delivered what he estimated was "something like 15,000 babies." The work, he said, was varying, de¬manding, continuous. In retirement ("Time now for the toys!") Bob indulged his hobbies of modifying cars and motorcycles and working on his guns. He continued studying medicine, Spanish and German.

Bob's wife of 51 years, Laura Vasaly Collings, a Minnesota graduate, survives, as do three daughters, two grand¬children, and a sister. To them we offer our sincere sympathy.

The Class of 1934