Class Notes
A life trustee, Robert Woods ā42 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 Universityās 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 Chicagoās 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 ā44, while a student, and together, they were sometimes referred to as the āprom king and queenā of their time.
He died in October at the age of 94.