Robert Paul Morris ’82

Robert Paul Morris ’82 died October 4, 2015, after a seven-year battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Bob grew up in the Boston area and graduated from Boston College High School. He had a passion for all things Greek and Roman and at Dartmouth participated in the classics foreign study program in Greece. Bob majored in classics and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He worked at WDCR/WFRD as a disc jockey and was active in Aquinas House and the Young Democrats. Bob graduated from the University of Chicago Law School and was a partner at Morgan Brown and Joy LLC in Boston, where he practiced employment law. Bob’s wife, Eileen, remarked at his memorial service that Bob was a man of great faith. He went to Mass every week, but his faith was more than Sunday mornings and prayers at the dinner table. Bob lived his faith. He volunteered in soup kitchens and food pantries in the Boston area. Bob’s mother commented that Bob was “very, very happy” at Dartmouth. Roommate and friend Mike Fowler ’82 adds, “Those who knew him will remember his wry sense of humor and his staggering collection of music, in those days records and eight-track tapes, which filled Hitchcock and Topliff dorms with sounds that bring back so many memories to this day.” In his final years Bob was active in the Slatersville (Rhode Island) Congregational Church United Church of Christ, where Eileen was the pastor.