Harry Shields Robinson II ’42

HARRY DIED Mar. 30,1990, at his home in Cincinnati, Oh. He had suffered from cancer for two and a half years.

Harry joined the Class of 1942 from the Hill School, graduating with honors in economics. He was a member of Cottage Club. Following commencement he spent four years with the Army Air Force serving in India, Egypt, and North Africa, rising to the rank of captain.

Following the war, he started in advertising in Cincinnati working on the U.S. Shoe account. In 1952 he moved to U.S. Shoe where he spent 35 years, as advertising manager, president of the Red Cross Shoe Division, and retiring in 1987 as a group V.P. He made several major contributions to U.S. Shoe, most prominently the development of a new, highly successful shoe line called "Easy Spirit" Harry's credo: "it's amazing how much can be accomplished when you don't worry about who gets the credit" was the key to his business success. His children knew him as a very loving man. Everyone who knew him came quickly to love and respect him as a man of great character and high values.

Harry was a past president of the Speech and Hearing Center of Cincinnati and is survived by his son, Harry III '69, two daughters, Judith and Elizabeth, seven grandchildren and a brother, Richard '51. To his entire family the Class expresses its most sincere sympathies for their loss,

The Class of l942