Lehman, Robert C. (1929-2009)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2009 Feb 16 p. 8

Birth date: 1929 Mar 22

text of obituary:

EMU professor, energy conservationist dies

By Eastern Mennonite University staff

HARRISONBURG, Va. — Robert C. Lehman, a retired Eastern Mennonite University faculty member who did extensive energy research and conservation projects on campus, died Feb. 2, just four days after his sister, another former EMU professor, passed away.

Lehman, 79, professor of physical science from 1955 to 1980, died at Rockingham Memorial Hospital.

Four days earlier, his sister, Esther K. Lehman, 85, died (MWR, Feb. 9) She was professor emerita of education.

Lehman was born March 22, 1929, in Harrisonburg, the son of Chester K. and Myra Kendig Lehman.

At EMU he taught astronomy and physics courses and was director of the M.T. Brackbill Planetarium from 1967 to 1979.