Rodney D. Andrews Jr. ’44 *49

ROD ANDREWS died Oct. 19, 1993, in Hoboken. He prepared at Princeton H.S., and transferred from the Univ. of Maryland to Princeton his sophomore year. A member of Gateway Club and the Glee Club, Rod got his degree in chemistry in 1943, and a Princeton Ph.D. in 1948, followed by a year at the Univ. of Basel in Switzerland, though he had seriously considered becoming a concert pianist.

He became one of a small number of chemists concentrating on the emerging Feld of polymers, which are widely used in plastics, fibers, and thousands of materials.

He joined Dow Chemical in Midland, Mich., doing research on optical and mechanical properties of polymers, and in 1961, became an assistant professor at M.I.T. In 1965, he joined Stevens Institute of Technology as a professor of chemistry, and was named professor emeritus in 199 1. Fluent in both French and German, he was instrumental in starting the first technical institute school in Algiers. He spent many summers in Paris, thoroughly enjoyed music, the theater, the cinema, and was especially known for being a thoughtful listener.

In later years, Rod was a regular attendee at our reunions. He'll be missed at the 50th, which he had planned to attend. He leaves a sister, Virginia Fuller.

The Class of 1944