GEORGE ROORBACH DIES SUDDENLY IN CAPITAL

George B. Roorbach, for 15 years professor of Foreign Trade at the Business School, died suddenly yesterday morning in Washington, where he was associated with the State Department.

Among the numerous positions which he held are: Investigator of financial and economic conditions in Venezuela for the Carnegie Peace Endowment in 1915; special expert with the Shipping Board 1918 and 1919; member of the committee on Statistics of the International Commerce Department, and chief of the Research Division of the Department of Commerce in 1921 and 1922. He had also written widely on foreign subjects.

Professor Roorbach received his early education at Colgate University from which he graduated with an A.B. degree in 1903. Twelve years later he was awarded his A.M. from the University of Pennsylvania and it was in 1925 that Colgate honored his record with an S.D.

Mrs. Roorbach, the former Aune Hubble, whom he married in 1912, and six children, survive. His home here was at 74 Avon Hill Street and he was a member of the Association of American Geographers, American Statistical Association, Geographical Society of Philadelphia, Boston Exporters' Round Table Phi Beta kappa, Delta Upsilon Fraternity, the Cosmos Club of Washington, and the Harvard club Boston.