Dr. W. Samuel Robinson ’37

GASTROENTEROLOGIST SAM ROBINSON died Aug. 6, 1991, of myelogenous leukemia, leaving his wife, Kelsey, three children, and five grandsons,

At Montgomery School Sam was on the football and basketball teams and active in publications and drama, At Princeton he majored in biology, was a member of the League of Evangelical Students and Cottage, and was an outstanding star in lacrosse, chosen as an All American and also a member of the American team in the 1937 series with English lacrosse.

He obtained his medical degree at the Univ. of Pennsylvania and interned at Graduate Hospital before pending four years in the Navy, first in charge of the eye clinic at the Philadelphia Navy Yard Dispensary and then two years as a psychiatrist, all "drear diet," 'while unsuccessfully trying for sea duty. He was discharged a lieutenant commander. He was in private practice in Columbus, starting in Oct, 1949, retiring in 1971, was a founder of the Columbus Society of Internal Medicine, while also teaching at the medical school at Ohio State "great years of work, joy, and fulfillment." Summers were spent searching for the American eagle over Penobscot Bay and painting prizewinning watercolors, from a home on Deer Isle.

The Class sends its condolences to the family on the loss of a magnificent citizen.

The Class of 1937