Robert Roy Wellman ’54

Robert Roy Wellman ’54 passed away on May 8 in Amherst, Massachusetts. Bob came to Dartmouth from Cleveland and he attended Brooklyn High School. At Dartmouth he was a zoology major and a brother of Delta Kappa Epsilon. After serving two years in the U.S. Army, Bob enrolled at the University of London, earning a master’s in science teaching and the history of science. He then returned to Cleveland and received an M.A. from Case Western University. After three years of teaching at Ohio State University, Bob earned his doctorate in philosophy of education and history of science from Ohio State. Shortly thereafter he became a professor at the University of Massachusetts and moved to Amherst. During his tenure at UMass Bob held numerous academic and administrative positions, including university ombudsman, professor and director of educational philosophy, secretary of the faculty senate and director of the adult and higher educational leadership program. He was a visiting professor at the universities of Washington, Illinois and Wisconsin and received a Fulbright to the University of Tehran, Iran. Bob retired from UMass in 1994 and turned his passion for teaching toward K-12 education, working with teachers in western Massachusetts through Framingham State College. Bob is survived by his wife, Avril, and daughter Beth and son Alex.