Bobby and I were good friends during high school. After I married Coach Whitaker we moved and I lost touch with Bobby.We reconnected a few years ago and visited him in Dallas. I was inspired and awestruck by his many and varied accomplishments. I don't think a day went by that he did not live to the fullest. From making hundreds of millions in the leveraged buyout and investment banking field to creating some of National Geographics best-selling books that captured nature from the air. He authored several other books and produced two documentaries We shared a common love for motorcycling and his museum of motorcycles is not rivaled. His contributions are too many to list. He will be missed by all that knew him but his many gifts to this world will live on.
Bob and Jeff and I saw each other during college, but not enough. I have since reconnected with Jeff, but only with Bob through his occasional contact with my younger brother Bill. Like many of us, I always assumed we'd somehow connect again. Assumptioms like that are increasingly beimg proven false. Bob was kind, engaging, energetic,and curious. Always enjoyable and always stimulating. He leaves a void and I miss him.
Here is the OBIT from the Dallas Morning News. I last had lunch with Bobby last year. We were college classmates. He took my grandchildren on a tour of his Motorcyle Museum last summer. He was the youngest looking 74 year old my grandchildren commented. The Museum is amazing. He wrote a book, Shakespeare and his Brothers about his year riding with a group of Veterans in a motorcyle club. We had lunch at New York Deli near me where the motorcyle guys would meet.
If you are interested in seeing some of Bobby's amazing contributions and finding out about his life accomplishments and trials please see "Leaving Tracks" You can download this documentary on Apple TV. Truly inspiring!! Well worth your time and investment!!.
Here is a link to a comprehensive and totally cool video of the Haas Motorcycle Museum. A truly remarkable collection of bikes from a truly remarkable person.
Edward Torchy Smith
Betsy Slobody (Whitaker)
Bobby and I were good friends during high school. After I married Coach Whitaker we moved and I lost touch with Bobby.We reconnected a few years ago and visited him in Dallas. I was inspired and awestruck by his many and varied accomplishments. I don't think a day went by that he did not live to the fullest. From making hundreds of millions in the leveraged buyout and investment banking field to creating some of National Geographics best-selling books that captured nature from the air. He authored several other books and produced two documentaries We shared a common love for motorcycling and his museum of motorcycles is not rivaled. His contributions are too many to list. He will be missed by all that knew him but his many gifts to this world will live on.
Tim Bannon (Bannon)
Bob and Jeff and I saw each other during college, but not enough. I have since reconnected with Jeff, but only with Bob through his occasional contact with my younger brother Bill. Like many of us, I always assumed we'd somehow connect again. Assumptioms like that are increasingly beimg proven false. Bob was kind, engaging, energetic,and curious. Always enjoyable and always stimulating. He leaves a void and I miss him.Jeffrey Pollock (Pollock)
Here is the OBIT from the Dallas Morning News. I last had lunch with Bobby last year. We were college classmates. He took my grandchildren on a tour of his Motorcyle Museum last summer. He was the youngest looking 74 year old my grandchildren commented. The Museum is amazing. He wrote a book, Shakespeare and his Brothers about his year riding with a group of Veterans in a motorcyle club. We had lunch at New York Deli near me where the motorcyle guys would meet.
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/2021/09/30/bobby-haas-financial-mastermind-aerial-photographer-and-museum-owner-dies-at-74/
Betsy Slobody (Whitaker)
If you are interested in seeing some of Bobby's amazing contributions and finding out about his life accomplishments and trials please see "Leaving Tracks" You can download this documentary on Apple TV. Truly inspiring!! Well worth your time and investment!!.
Jerry Silver
From Jerry Silver
Here is a link to a comprehensive and totally cool video of the Haas Motorcycle Museum. A truly remarkable collection of bikes from a truly remarkable person.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bobby+haas+motorcycle+museum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U95tXbedoGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0jroQ1_PYk
Ronald Adrine (Adrine)
Senior moment: Is Bobby in the Shaker Heights High School Hall of Fame?? If not, one of you guys needs to nominate him?
David Brown
https://www.wsj.com/articles/investor-reinvented-himself-as-a-daredevil-11633701600?mod=searchresults_pos2&page=1
From 10/9/21 Wall Street Journal
Barry Frankel
The New York Times has published a detailed obituary on Bob.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/business/robert-haas-dead.html?searchResultPosition=2
David Brown
Big and interesting obit for Robert in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/business/robert-haas-dead.html