He came to Princeton from Lawrenceville School, where he was captain of the track team and state mile champion. At Princeton, Bob was pre-med majoring in biology, ate at Quadrangle, and was on the track and cross-country teams. He graduated from Cornell Medical College, completed his residency and fellowship in anesthesiology at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, and then served as a major in the Army Medical Corps.
Bob spent his career as clinical professor of anesthesiology at the UVA School of Medicine, but he also held prominent positions at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (chair of anesthesiology) and the FDA (director of the division of anesthesiology) and served as president of both the Virginia Society of Anesthesiologists and the Society of Neurosurgical Anesthesia. He wrote more than 200 medical papers and was an early pioneer in the field of anesthesiology for neurosurgery.
While Bob had a passion for teaching, the real love of his life was his wife of more than 58 years, Faith (they married our senior year), with whom he shared a love of art and architecture, travel, music, skiing, and sailing as well as a deep devotion to their children and grandchildren. The class extends its condolences to Faith and their family.