Hamilton A. Robinson ’27

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DIED Aug. 20, 1991. He retired in 1968, after a distinguished career with the notable Pittsburgh legal firm of Dickie, Robinson and McCarney, in which he was a junior partner. He walked in the path of his father (Harvard '01), taking his LL,B. in 1931. In retirement he lived during the summer at the Lawn Tennis Club of North Carolina, Pinchurst, and during the winter on the Gulf Boulevard, North Reclington Beach, Fla

He was a most busy man. For a while he was a director of Frank H. Shook, Inc., and a member of the international Insurance Council. He was a "joiner" a devoted Mason of the John A. Brashear Lodge, F. & A.M., a member of the Pittsburgh HarvardYalePrinceton Club, and a director of the Mount Lebanon and Castle Shannon golf clubs. He voted Republican and worshipped (one knows devoutly) at the Beverly Heights United Presbyterian Church.

Ham married Mary Emma Dall (Pembroke College '37 on Aug. 19, 1937. They had two sons, Gary A. and Bruce H. '45, The Class extends its deepest sympathy to Ham's family.

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