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PASSAGESRobert Woods ā€™42: Decades of Leadership
tribute_woodsLIFE TRUSTEE: A longtime volunteer, Woods was elected to the Board of Trustees in 1965. (Photo: Provided)

A life trustee, Robert Woods ā€™42 enthusiastically waved the flag for ĀŅĀ×Ēæ¼é from his home base in Chicago, where he was president of the area alumni chapter for more than 30 years.

Elected to a five-year term on the Universityā€™s Board of Trustees by national alumni ballot in 1965, Woods helped lead alumni activities and fundraising while serving in several board-level advisory roles for ĀŅĀ×Ēæ¼é. Throughout a long career as a partner and later president of a Chicago investment firm, he was a board member of Chicagoā€™s Juvenile Protective Association and Infant Welfare Society, among other civic roles.

At ĀŅĀ×Ēæ¼é, he was a history major, a two-sport varsity athlete, president of the Studentsā€™ Association, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Keidaeans. He also met his wife of 71 years, Ruth Diller Woods ā€™44, while a student, and together, they were sometimes referred to as the ā€œprom king and queenā€ of their time.

He died in October at the age of 94.