At the 2007 Annual SIDA dinner, the current and all the past presidents of the club in attendance posed for a photo. From left to right, Nick Popolo, John Lavelle, Phil Blist, Cindy Voorspuy, Mark Herman, Helen Settles, Bob Dunne, Anne Taylor, Shawn Dwyer, Joy Robins, Bob Domina.

At the SIDA Annual Gala Dinner, 2007, with Bob and our dear friend Dan Kramer. I was awarded the Peggy Johnston Club Service Award at this dinner. Bob had been a long time member of the Staten Island Democratic Association, and had served as club president at one time.

Bob was an incredibly kind, generous, thoughtful soul. He would do anything for a friend. He was very dedicated to social justice, and did what he could to help society through his activities as a member of the Democratic Committee of Richmond County, and as an avid member, and past president, of the Staten Island Democratic Association. He volunteered on the Board of Community Health Action, the Staten Island Chamber Music Players, and the Lathrope Voorspuy Memorial Scholarship Board. When our friend Lathrope passed away (the same weekend as his beloved mother), Bob and I were two of the first volunteers to set up a scholarship in Lathrope's memory. We attended the Chamber Music concerts together, and also visited numerous museums, historic homes, and designer show houses. We often took rides down to the Jersey shore, where Bob would tell me about going to Spring Lake as a child with his parents. When on occasion we would take a ride to Princeton, we would take a look at his old school nearby, at Lawrenceville. Bob was an animal lover, and delighted in telling me how his cat Angel would bring him all these little "gifts" -- dead mice, birds, etc. His great passion was golf, and he never could get enough playing it, watching it on TV, going to the driving range. He would tell me about various golf courses at which he had played, and ones he would love to play.

Bob loved going to fine restaurants, and one of his favorite foods was stuffed artichoke.