Joseph A. Robinson ’31

Joseph A. Robinson died Apr. 4, 1998, in Easton, Md. He was 87.

After graduation, Joe became an instructor and research fellow at the U. of Pennsylvania, in the field of history and communication. After Pearl Harbor he became editor in the office of coordinator of information in the Executive Office of the President, and shortly after became chief war correspondent for the United Nations News Service for the Mediterranean theater. From 1945-53 Joe was a Foreign Service officer with the Dept. of State, serving in successive posts in the Orient. He was on the staff of Gen. Hodge in Korea and became secretary of embassy and director of information in Pusan, Korea.

Leaving the diplomatic service, Joe returned to the U.S. and took the position of treasurer of an industrial coal company in Camden, N.J.

In 1962 Joe retired to St. Michaels, Md., on Chesapeake Bay, to pursue his longtime study of the role of the bay in the American Revolution and to enjoy his hobby of sailing. On Oct. 30, 1952, Joe married Madeline Law, a Radcliffe graduate, who survives him, and to whom the class sends its sympathy.