ROBERT M. SANDOE MALS’62
ROBERT M. SANDOE MALS’62, who founded Robert M. Sandoe and Associates, now Carney Sandoe and Associates, the teacher placement agency and head of school recruitment firm in Boston, died Aug. 10, 2014, at age 90. He received his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College. During World War II he served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a navigator and during the Korean War as an instructor of navigation. He taught for several years at Choate Rosemary Hall before holding headships at the American School of Manila, Texas Military Academy, the Cranbrook School, and the Cambridge School of Weston. Subsequently he founded Sandoe and Associates. A leader in the world of independent education, he was also the founding first Chair of Independent Educational Services, a non-profit teacher placement agency. His first wife, Nancy Kane Sandoe, predeceased him, as did one son. Among those who survive are his wife, Frederica Lawrence Sandoe, two children, five grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.