Robert “Bob” Dominick Billinger was born in 1899. Having served in World War I as a 2nd Lt. Infantry in the U.S. Army (1918), he came to Lehigh after the war. While at Lehigh he was awarded many prizes among them the Wilbur Prize in English, Tau Beta Pi. He was involved with many campus groups – YMCA, Arcadia and the Alchemists. Dr. Robert “Bob” Dominick Billinger graduated from Lehigh in the Class of 1921. He was the corresponding secretary for the Class of 1921. From 1921 – 23 he was a chemist- metallurgist with Bartlett-Hayward Company in Baltimore. In 1925 he was awarded a MS from Lehigh. From 1923 to 1926 he was a graduate student and Instructor in Chemistry at Lehigh. He taught at Yale 1926-27. In 1929 he received a PhD from the University of Cincinnati and returned to Lehigh as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry from 1929 to 1939. He was an Associate Professor 1939 to 1965 in Lehigh’s Department of Chemistry. His main duties were to teach general chemistry and the History and Literature of Chemistry. He considered himself a chemist. He co-authored two lab texts and over 50 articles in chemistry and education. The son of Bob and wife, Mary, Robert Jr. is of the Lehigh Class of 1966. When Bob Sr. retired sometime after 1965, he moved to Florida. Bob Sr. died in 1980.