Mueller, Robert Emmett

Bob Mueller was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1925 to Dora (nee Doering), a dressmaker, and Hugo Ferdinand Mueller, a pastry baker. His brother George was a bass who sang in the St. Louis Municipal Opera. As a boy Bob was a virtuoso on the toy Tonette at Roe Grade School. He received amateur radio license W9AXB at 13 and spent many quiet hours with the mellifluous and melodic heterodynes of amateur radio signals from across the world singing in his ears. He joined the Navy during World War II and was sent to MIT. He went to sea on a Destroyer Escort, seeing action in the Mediterranean. After