Robert Church Stroud ’40

Pulmonary health scientist Bob Stroud died from cardiac arrest Aug. 13, 1998, in Bethesda, Md. He prepared at Brooklyn Poly Prep. At Princeton he majored in biology with honors. In 1952 he earned his PhD in physiology from the U. of Rochester. For a brief period he taught at Penn and Ohio State Medical Schools.

Bob then worked for the Navy in submarine medical research and with NASA at the Ames Research Center in California before moving to Washington, D.C., in 1964 to join the Natl. Institute of Health as a physiologist concentrating on lung and heart function. He undertook research in hyperbaric and cardiovascular matters. Bob retired from NIH in 1988 and volunteered at the White House and the Smithsonian.

Bob enjoyed "travel, good restaurants, good friends, reading, theater, and concerts." He was investigating the concept of time and combining the ideas of quantum mechanics and philosophy. For many years he and wife Catherine attended class luncheons at Maryland's Chevy Chase Club.

In addition to his wife, Bob is survived by two nieces and a number of grandnieces and -nephews. The class sends them all its sincere sympathy and shares their loss of this unique researcher, scientist, and medical doctor.

The Class of 1940