ROBERT E. PORTER ’38

ROBERT E. PORTER, an attorney, died Feb. 4, 2016, at age 100. A member of Alpha Chi Rho, he received his degree with honors and with high distinction in government. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, received his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and then served in the U.S. Army during World War II. After the war he returned to legal practice in Wayne, Penna., with the firm of Greenwell and Porter, later Greenwell, Porter, Smaltz, and Royal, until he retired in 1985. Active in his community as well as professional associations, he was an original trustee of Valley Forge Military Academy. His wife of 74 years, Doris Ray Porter, survives, as do two daughters, six grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and his sister.