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Bob Dulaney passed away on July 27, 2022, at the age of 70 after a prolonged illness. He is survived by his brother Wayne. Bob lived in Frederick, Maryland.
At WJ, Bob was a stalwart member of the chess team and was instrumental in the winning of the DC Metro championship for 2 years running. He graduated from the University of Maryland with joint degrees in math and philosophy. Bob later spent his career working at NOAA in Silver Spring as a Geodesist where, among other things, he was responsible for modeling the orbital characteristics of GPS satellites to centimeter-level accuracies. At the time of his death, Bob was retired.
Throughout his life, Bob was an avid chess player, global traveler, as well as a talented Irish folk dancer performing at St. Patrick Day parades and an evening with the Chieftains at the Kennedy Center. He was a horror film fanatic and a life-long student of the French language. Bob went to Kensington Junior High. He attended many of the WJ Class of 1969 reunions, including the 50-Year Reunion in 2019.
A visitation will be held Wednesday, August 3, 2022, from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm at Murphy Funeral Homes, 4510 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Va. 22203. A graveside service will be held at 2pm at Columbia Gardens Cemetary in Arlington. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation. https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/arlington-va/robert-dulaney-10866669
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Elaine Orr
Bob and I lived just a few houses from each other in Garrett Park Estates. I enjoyed talking to him at reunions. I guess we should get used to losing so many, but it's hard.
Elaine
John William (Bill) Bowling
I was very sad to read thenews of Bob's passing this morning. We gree up a few blocks from each other in Garrett Park Estates and spent time at each others houses after school (Garrett Park Elementary). We enjoyed catching up wit each other at the reunions, in fact last November Bob extended a Happy Birthday greeting on my 70th. My wife enjoyed meeting Bob and commented on,"What nice friends I had ," as a youngster. May he find everlasting Peace.
Bill Bowling
Sally Newman
Same for me. I went to Garrett Park Elementary with Robert Dulaney, and we were in the same classes. I remember him as a really nice person. I'm saddened by the loss.
David Roberts
I was very sorry to hear of the passing of Bob Dulaney. I saw Bob at the 40th reunion in 2009 and shared the following memory with him. We were in the same ninth grade science class at Kensington Junior High. The teacher, Mr. Winner, used to emphasize his remarks by whacking his desk with a stick, which I believe was a golf club with the head cut off. He could be very caustic at times. Somehow Bob was frequently the object of Winner’s ire, probably because Bob was less inhibited than the rest of us about expressing himself.
Winner: What’s the largest cell you’ve ever seen?
Bob: Onion cell?
Winner: No, no Dulaney! A chicken egg! [Whack!]
And one time Winner was so provoked by something Bob said that he shouted: “Dulaney, you’re going to be in this class for 30 years!” [Whack!]
30 years. It seemed like an immeasurably long span of time at that moment. Not so long now.