Bob Maximoff MBA ’81 passed away suddenly on October 2, at age 86. Bob was grateful to have lived a full life. The youngest of 3 children, he grew up during the depression in Kansas City. He attended Southwest High School, where he met his wife. He served in the Army in WWII in Okinawa and graduated from the University of Illinois. An engineer and manager with Standard Vacuum Oil Company (Exxon) from 1950-75, Bob enjoyed a wonderful life in New York, Indonesia, Malaysia and Australia. He then settled in Los Altos, worked for Bechtel and earned an MBA from Santa Clara University, where he later taught financial management to undergraduate students in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Bob was on the board of the Peninsula Symphony and a member of Mensa. He loved history, poetry, writing, the harmonica, tinkering and maintaining the family cabin. He cared deeply for his country and authored Op/Ed pieces in the NY Times and SJ Mercury.

Bob is survived by Pat, his wife of 61 years, who shared his fabulous journey, his 2 sons, Tim and Chris, and their families, as well as 2 sisters, Mary (Maxie) Bentzen and Betty Alice Schaffer.