Richard Rolland Robinson ’39

After graduation from Princeton, he attended Harvard Business School and during World War II was stationed at Fort Mason in San Francisco as an Army transportation officer.

After discharge in 1946, Dick returned home to Wheeling, W.Va., and took over his father’s business at Ohio Valley Advertising Corp., from which he retired in the late 1970s. He was a member of the Wheeling Zoning Commission, Rotary Club, and Symposiarch, and was president of the Wheeling Bicentennial Commission. He spoke in front of a congressional committee in defense of the billboard industry.  

Dick lived in Wheeling for 60 years and then lived in Santa Barbara, Calif., where he was involved in real estate and investments, and Naples. His 15 years in Santa Barbara enabled him to play tennis on an almost-daily basis. He played in the Phoenix Challenge (limited to men over 50) and was the oldest man ever to play in the national finals.

Dick’s three daughters from his first marriage survive him, as does his wife, Rita, whom he married when he was 61, inheriting seven stepchildren. He also is survived by two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. We offer them all our sincere sympathy.