Roger C. Porr ’55

Roger died Sept. 1, 2007, at home in Trumbull, Conn. He came to Princeton from Bogota (N.J.) High School on a Cane Scholarship. Majoring in psychology, he played an active role in the Student Christian Association, Theatre Intime, and WPRU. Roger was a member of Dial.

As psychology graduate students at Yale, Roger and Sandy Dunn met and married. After teaching psychology for a few years at Grinnell College in Iowa, they returned to Trumbull. Roger held various positions with Yale-New Haven Hospital and West Haven VA Hospital and kept a private practice.

After a serious illness in the early ’70s, Roger was forced to retire from full-time work and his life changed drastically during that time.

Roger said, “My search for the meaning of life had ended,” and he received Jesus Christ into his life as Savior and Lord. A lightly fictionalized spiritual autobiography, Snake in the Grass, describes that change. For the rest of his life Roger was an avid student of the Bible and taught Bible study in church, Sunday school, and informally to family and friends.

To Sandy, his wife of 50 years; his sons, Clay ’82 and Gregor ’85; and the entire Porr family; the class extends deepest sympathy.