Robert Zent Chew Jr. ’45

Bob died on June 2, 2000, of respiratory failure in Orlando. Bob entered Princeton from New Trier High in Winnetka, Ill., joined Cannon Club, became capt. of the golf team, and was a member of the basketball and baseball teams. His Princeton career was interrupted by service as a pilot in the air corps, flying B-26 and B-17 bombers. He returned to Princeton and received a degree in economics in 1946. Bob then began a 43-year career in the publishing business, joining the Chicago Tribune and eventually the Penton Publishing Co. and becoming publisher of Foundry magazine in 1968.

Bob retired from Penton in 1989 as a group publisher of several well known trade magazines. He was most proud of the publication Machine Design, an internationally recognized design engineering magazine. He retired to Orlando, residing at Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Club, where he was well known as an amateur golf champion.

In 1948, Bob married the former Betty Blizard, who survives him along with daughter Leslie Herr, sons Robert and David, six grandchildren, and brother Donald. The class extends its sympathy to the family.

The Class of 1945