Roderic Collins Ott ’27

RODERIC COLLINS Ott died Apr. 16, 1993, at Columbia Hospital in Milwaukee. He had lived at Bradford Terrace Nursing Home for the previous eight years.

Rod came to Princeton from Milwaukee Day School, majored in political science, and was a member of Quadrangle Club, the freshman soccer team, the choir, and Whig Hall. He roomed with John "Pee Wee" Milton.

After graduation, he worked for several years with the Kimberley Clark Paper Corp. and then became sales manager for William Steinmeyer in Milwaukee, a wholesale grocery firm. He was later employed by K. D. Pierson Co., sugar brokers.

In WWII, he served as a lt. cdr. in the naval reserve supply corps as a supply and purchasing officer of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station and the 9th Naval District. In 1945, he was awarded a certificate of merit and commendation ribbon for his work as a supply officer to the U.S. Technical Mission in Europe.

For a number of years after the war, he worked for Smith, Barney & Co. stockbrokers in Milwaukee. He retired in the early 1970s and lived on his farm in Fredoma, Wisc., for seven years, but then moved to Milwaukee, where he was active in Republican politics and civic groups.

He married Virginia Brooks in 1930, was divorced in 1939, and married Constance Harper in 1950. She died in 1968.

To his son, Brooke, the class extends its sympathy.

The Class of 1927