Robert K. McCabe ’51

Robert K. McCabe ’51, a veteran foreign correspondent, died in Paris, France, on March 9, 2016. A memorial service was held at the American Cathedral in Paris, where he had been a member of the vestry and senior warden. Bob began his overseas career in the early 1960s as Newsweek’s Hong Kong bureau chief, covering the Vietnam War, China and Southeast Asia. He captured this experience in a book, Storm Over Asia: China and Southeast Asia: Thrust and Response. He also wrote Guide to Business Travel in Asia. Bob returned briefly to the United States to serve in New York as an editor for Newsweek and later for Time. Time sent him to Paris as a correspondent, beginning a 45-year love affair with France. He spent 22 of those years with the International Herald Tribune in Paris, retiring in 1996 as deputy editor. He and his wife, Susan, divided their retirement years between Paris and Normandy. One of his many friends, mentees and colleagues described Bob as “a quintessential journalist and storyteller, witty and erudite, the inventor and forgiver of many a bad pun.” At Dartmouth Bob was a member of Delta Tau Delta, active in the Outing Club, wrote for the Jack-O-Lantern and earned his freshman numerals on the track team. He later received a Ford Foundation fellowship to attend the East Asia Research Institute at Harvard and studied intensive Mandarin Chinese at Yale.