Robert H. Roy

Robert Hall Roy (21 November 1906 to 8 October 2000) was an American mechanical engineer and dean of engineering science at Johns Hopkins University who also played lacrosse at a high level. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he enrolled at Johns Hopkins in 1925, where he played lacrosse as a member of the university's national championship team. He was a defender on the United States national lacrosse team that competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, where lacrosse was a demonstration sport. After the Games he worked at Waverly Press, then taught at Johns Hopkins, becoming dean of engineering in 1956 and retiring in 1973. His testimony in 1952 helped nine African Americans gain admission to the A course at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. He died in Towson, Maryland, in 2000 at the age of 93.