The following obituary appeared in the November 17, 2001, edition of the Baltimore (Maryland) Sun: Robert Crittenden Stout, 74, Beth Steel manager Robert Crittenden Stout, a longtime employee of Bethlehem Steel who operated a consulting firm, died Tuesday after a 10-month battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 74. Mr. Stout, who had been living at the Mercy Ridge retirement community in Timonium, was a longtime resident of Roland Park and Timonium. Born in New York City, he grew up in Pelham, N.Y., and Kansas City, Mo., where he attended local schools. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1950. For 32 years he worked as a manager at Bethlehem Steel, spending 30 years at Sparrows Point, where he was an assistant superintendent of the hot strip mill in the 1970s. He retired in the early 1980s, his family said. He then worked for several companies before starting an engineering consulting firm, Stout Management Services, in the mid-1990s, which he operated until a month before his death. During the Korean War, he served on active duty in the Army Reserves as a first lieutenant. He attained the rank of captain before he resigned his commission. Mr. Stout was a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity, the Sparrows Point Engineers Club, the Sparrows Point Country Club and the Sons of the American Revolution. Services will be held at 11 a.m. today at Hunt's Memorial United Church, West Joppa and Old Court roads in Riderwood.He is survived by his wife of 25 years, the former Amanda Dorsett of Timonium; three sons, Peter M. Stout of Boulder, Colo., Douglas Shreve of Marshalltown, Iowa, and Charles B. Shreve of White Marsh; three daughters, Susan Jackman of Reading, Pa., Julie Davis of Houston and Sarah Vess of Lexington Park; two brothers, Franklin Stout of Roland Park and Thomas Stout of Reading, Vt.; and 10 grandchildren.