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Robert "Bob" Strahan Perew (August 5, 1923 – November 14, 1999) was an American oarsman who competed in Olympic medal record
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He was born in Philadelphia, PA and died in Denton, TX. His mother was Bernice Perew (maiden name Strahan) and 1948 London Coxless four
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Recent changes his father was Robert Jackman Perew. His paternal grandfather was Captain Frank Perew, owner of a fleet of cargo
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Tools Robert lived in Buffalo, NY and West Palm Beach, FL during his youth. He graduated from Lafayette High School (Buffalo), NY in 1941, then attended Yale
University where obtained a degree in mechanical engineering. Midway through his college career he served in the U.S. Navy. Perew was commissioned as the
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He began rowing at Buffalo's historic West Side Rowing Club while still in high school. During college he was on the Yale crew and also on the U.S. team
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Rowing at the 1948 Summer Olympics. His event, the Men's Coxless Fours, took the bronze medal for their race. Robert always claimed they could have taken
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the gold except they thought there was a false start by the German team and hesitated for a second, thus they only placed third at the finish line. Rowing in this
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His career included work at General Electric, Electric Boat -a division of General Dynamics, and York International. He always enjoyed boating and lived near
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Long Island Sound in Waterford, CT for over 40 years. He was a member of the Yale-Harvard Regatta committee until the year he died and never missed this
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