Bob graduated from Lyndon State College with a Bachelor of Arts in English Writing.
Bob’s love of athletics started long before his time in Lyndon, when at the age of fourteen, he started coaching Little League baseball. His love for baseball began at a young age, and never wavered. He coached some level of baseball every year from age fourteen until the age of fifty-six, when a health issue forced him to retire from coaching.
While at Lyndon State in the early 1980s, Bob was a statistician for the basketball team, and served as the sports information director (SID) for the Mayflower Conference, of which Lyndon was a member school. His duties would lead him to travel throughout New England, and the Mid-Atlantic region, keeping statistics and records for the team. In addition to his duties as team statistician and SID, Bob was also a contributing writer for The Critic, Lyndon’s student newspaper.
Following graduation, Bob worked in various customer service positions. His career path would take him from Littleton, N.H., where he worked for Littleton Coin Company, to Scranton, Pa., where he worked at Thomson Education. During his time at Thomson Education, Bob was twice recognized as employee of the month.
In addition to his customer service work, Bob became a local sportswriter covering sporting events for the Weekly News and the Lyndonville Courier in Lyndonville, the Citizen’s Voice of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and the Scranton Times-Tribune of Scranton, Pa.
Despite his professional successes, Bob was never far from his love of sports. In addition to the hundreds of youth athletes he coached over the course of his career, Bob served on Little League boards in both Vermont and Pennsylvania. He was instrumental in starting Little League Girls Softball in Newfoundland, Pa., and coached a Lyndon-area Little League team to the Vermont State Championship. In 2001, just before moving to Pennsylvania, Bob was awarded the Lyndon Youth Baseball Award, which honors individuals who are dedicated to improving the lives of youth in the community.
Shortly after moving to Pennsylvania, Bob married his wife Julie and started a family. While many who know Bob from afar would point to his constant “love” of sports, those who knew Bob personally, knew nothing made him happier than his two daughters, Molly and Jewel.
Sadly, on October 11, 2019, Bob lost his long-fought battle with diabetes, passing away at the age of sixty-one.
