Roll Call Tribute

Robert A. "Bob" Powell '84, 46, of West Point, N.Y. (formerly of Leesville, La.) died June 9, 2008. He was a colonel in the U.S. Army and has served in the Air Defense Artillery as an ordnance officer with assignments in the U.S., Korea and Germany. He received a master's degree in operations research/management science from George Mason University and, in 2002, he received a doctorate in systems engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. He then joined the Department of Systems Engineering at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point where he was an academy professor and deputy department head. During that assignment, he was a USMA fellow at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., earning a master's in national security and strategic studies. He had served in the U.S. Army for more than 24 years. He was author of and contributor to books, journal publications and technical reports. His military awards include the Meritorious Service Medal with three oak leaf clusters. Survivors include his wife, Lita; four children; his mother; two brothers; and three sisters.