Robert E. Rhodes; Longtime Newspaper Editor

Robert E. Rhodes, 69, longtime newspaper editor and former president of the Associated Press Managing Editors Assn. Rhodes, who graduated from Colgate University, was Washington bureau chief for Newsday in 1962, managing editor of the Janesville (Wis.) Gazette in 1965, and editor of the Home News of New Brunswick (N.J.) in 1970. He became executive editor of the Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times in 1978, a post he held until his retirement in 1987. Rhodes first held a position with the managing editors group in 1971 and served as its president in 1986-87. After leaving the Caller-Times, he was a Gannett professor in residence at the University of Kansas in 1988-89 and the Atwood professor at the University of Alaska at Anchorage in 1989-91. On Monday in Corpus Christi.