Robert S. Birch ’61

Robert S. Birch ’61, of Lake Wales, Fla., formerly of New York City and Massachusetts; Feb. 7. He had a lifelong love for the stock market. He started as a runner on Wall Street as a teenager, became an intern in his college years, then an analyst and broker at A.G. Becker, before rising to managing director at Oppenheimer & Co. in a career that spanned 55 years. He was involved in the communities where he lived and served on the boards of the Bridge Fund of New York and the Bourne Conservation Trust. He is survived by his wife, Eugenie; three children and their spouses, including daughter Victoria Birch ’04 and son Foster ’93; and seven grandchildren.