Robert “Bobbie” Kent Gooch (1914)
Office of Strategic Services. Rhodes Scholar, University of Oxford. University of Virgina. Z Society. “13” club (Predecessor of the 13 Society), P.K.(the precursor of P.K. German), and the “V” club (for the most active supporters of the University’s athletics).
Brief stint as acting Dean of the College.(Virginia University).[4]
1955, he was awarded the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award and five years later he was given the Thomas Jefferson Award.[4]
1949, the Raven Society hosted a panel discussion exploring the “ways and means of achieving a more effective indoctrination of first-year men” into the Honor System; professor Gooch was a member of the panel since he had been president of the College and therefore chairman of the Honor Committee during his fourth year.[4]
WW2 - 1941 to 1943 - Chief of Western European Section of the Branch of Research and Analysis at OSS.[2]
1939 - founded the Government (no Politics) Honors Program, which is based on the Oxford tutorial system.[4]
1938 to 1939 - President of the Virginia Social Science Association.[4]
1932 until 1964 - Served as University’s Grand Marshall.[4]
1926 to ? - Professor of Government at University of Virginia.[2]
1924, Associate Professor in Political Science, University of Virginia.[4]
After the war, Gooch went on to Oxford and earned several degrees there in political science.
WW1, Spring 1915 - American Ambulance Corps with the French forces on the Somme front, and was awarded the Croix de Guerre.[2] They were part of a contingent of over 80 other University students to recent graduates who served as ambulance drivers.[4]
He and John V Ray‘13 - a fellow Rhodes Scholar, football star and U.V. a graduate, were the first two University alumni to volunteer to serve in WW1.[4]
WW1 - Captain in Battery “B”, 60th Artillery Corps (C.A.C.), American Expitionary Forces (A.E.F).[4]
1914 to 1915 - University of Virginia. Played quarterback for University.[4]
1914 - named Rhodes Scholar, Christ Church College, University of Oxford.[1] But WW1 interrupted his studies.[4]
1913 to 1914 - President of the Academic Class (the predecessor of the College of the Arts & Sciences) and may have been the University’s first Honor Chairman. The Honor Committee was first established in lae 1912 or early 1913 after a student proposed the creation of a permanent Honor Committee to consist of the student presidents of the University’s various schools.[4]
Died 22 May 1982, from Not Known. Age 80.[4]
[2] - FYI - Wiki - Robert Kent Gooch (Rhodes 1914)
[3] - Find a Grave - Robert Kent Gooch (Rhodes 1914)
[4] - Biography. Reference to Z Society.
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