Robert Brannan Durham Jr. ’54

Robert Brannan Durham Jr. ’54 of Haverford, Pennsylvania, passed away on May 10. Bob came to Dartmouth from Atlantic City High School and Ventnor City, New Jersey. Majoring in history, he was a member of Delta Upsilon, the Dartmouth Outing Club, Forensic Union, and Camera Club. After graduation from Columbia Law School in 1957, Bob practiced law in New York City before moving to Philadelphia in 1962 and subsequently to Norristown, Pennsylvania, where he specialized in estate, trust, and tax law. In 1967 he earned a master of laws in taxation from New York University. Bob’s three marriages ended in divorce; in 1987 he met his life partner, Mary “Mimi,” who survives him. Despite the constraints of his law practice, Bob wrote in 1979 in Reflections on Twenty-Five Years that he was able to “develop a circle of fine friends, collect a few antiques, build up a wine cellar, engage in some amateur singing, and still found time to catch salmon in Canada or shoot quail in Maryland on vacations.” He also found time to serve as a class agent. In More Reflections of 2004, Bob wrote of his “restless retirement,” in which he enjoyed “tennis, travel, fishing, the opera, the theater, and reading [and was] on the lookout for some extracurricular nonprofit challenges to undertake.”