In Remembrance: Robert Gordon Starr Jr. ’50 Died on February 4 2014

Robert Gordon Starr Jr. passed away on February 4, 2014. He served as a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War, serving as a ship navigator and fleet command communicator during mine sweeping operations. He returned to attend and graduate from Columbia University with a masters' degree in Economics and went on to earn his PhD in Economics from New York University. He began his career in New York City in advertising with McCann-Erickson but switched to investment banking, and had a long career at Schroder Bank where he was a Security Analyst and Vice President as well as a Chartered Financial Analyst.

He loved the woods, gardening and hiking in the peaks of New England, as well as skiing.

The GreenwichTime published his obituary on February 13, 2014.