ROBERT D. WILSON, LTJG, USN
Robert Wilson '54
Lucky Bag
From the 1954 Lucky Bag:
Robert Drexel Wilson
New York City, New York
Out of the lathe shops of Brooklyn Tech came Bob Wilson to the Nineteenth Company. There were five Teachers at one time in the company, but the amazing thing was that Bob was the only one who was ever quiet. His quietness had the first class fooled because Bob soon acquired the reputation as the most squared away plebe in the company. Bob was a volunteer for the cross country team plebe year and spent his efforts youngster year in 150 pound football for the company. Second class year he graduated to help manage the battalion football team. He had an affinity for tea fights at St. Mary's, which was understandable; swimming, which no one ever understood; submarines, his first love; and the mid-west, which he acquired.
CROSS COUNTRY—4.3. FOOTBALL—4,3,2,1. BASKETBALL—4. SOFTBALL—3,2,1.
He was a member of the 5th Battalion staff for the winter set and the 19th Company staff for the "third set."
Robert Drexel Wilson
New York City, New York
Out of the lathe shops of Brooklyn Tech came Bob Wilson to the Nineteenth Company. There were five Teachers at one time in the company, but the amazing thing was that Bob was the only one who was ever quiet. His quietness had the first class fooled because Bob soon acquired the reputation as the most squared away plebe in the company. Bob was a volunteer for the cross country team plebe year and spent his efforts youngster year in 150 pound football for the company. Second class year he graduated to help manage the battalion football team. He had an affinity for tea fights at St. Mary's, which was understandable; swimming, which no one ever understood; submarines, his first love; and the mid-west, which he acquired.
CROSS COUNTRY—4.3. FOOTBALL—4,3,2,1. BASKETBALL—4. SOFTBALL—3,2,1.
He was a member of the 5th Battalion staff for the winter set and the 19th Company staff for the "third set."
Loss
Bob was lost when his AD-6 Skyraider crashed on December 28, 1956. (Information from Class of 1954 via email on June 8, 2017.)
He is buried in New York.
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Louis Niederlander, Jr. '54 and Robert Biederman '54 were also members of 19th Company.
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