Dana Professor of Philosophy Emeritus Robert Reuman, a World War II conscientious objector whose teaching of ethics was reflected in a life committed to ethical choices, died August 29 at his home in Cape Split, Maine. He was 74 years old. His Colby colleague Dan Cohen '75, associate professor of philosophy, once said that Reuman, who taught at Colby from 1956 to 1991, was the ideal of a philosopher who lived what he taught. The son of missionaries, Reuman was born in China in 1923 and grew up in Medina, Ohio. He attended Middlebury College, where he was an honor student and captain of the football team. While at Middlebury he led a fight to end racial and religious discrimination in his fraternity, Alpha Sigma Phi, a prelude to a lifetime of commitment to social justice. Drafted following his junior year of college in 1943, Reuman refused military service as a conscientious objector. He served for the duration of the war at a Civilian Public Service camp fighting forest fires and at a mental hospital in Philadelphia. In 1948, in the midst of a teaching appointment at the University of Pennsylvania (where he earned his Ph.D. in 1949), Reuman was sentenced to a year in jail for refusing to register for the draft. He served four months in the federal penitentiary at Danbury, Conn., was paroled, and immediately set out for China to work for the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization that was building hospitals and establishing medical clinics. As a Quaker International Affairs Representative from 1964 to 1966, Reuman lived in Berlin and worked with government officials on both sides of the Berlin Wall to ease tensions and resolve conflicts. Revered as a teacher and moral model, Reuman inspired comments like this one from former student Anita Terry '89, who told Colby in 1991 that she and her classmates were "in awe of what he'd done and what he knew." Reuman served as a faculty representative to the Board of Trustees from 1973 to 1976 and was a member of the Colby panel that helped invent the Jan Plan. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy, a former professor of music at Colby, five children and six grandchildren. Memorial gifts may be made to Colby or to the American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia. A memorial service was held at Lorimer Chapel on October 4.