Robert Sampson Lanier ’31

Robin Lanier died Sept. 9, 1998. He prepared at Cambridge H.S. and Stony Brook School. At Princeton he was chairman of the Undergraduate Library Committee, and a member of the Gym Squad, Intra-Collegiate Athletic Committee, and Court Club.

After graduation Robin entered his chosen field, writing. He was very successful, both at the professional engineering level and for the general reader. He had a wide range of knowledge in AM, FM, and TV broadcasting, cable television, satellite program distribution, program syndication, fiber optics, professional sound recording, and home high-fidelity equipment. His clients included Western Electric Co., Roger Brown & Co., and Harvey Associates. In 1959 he made a goodwill trip to Russia, representing American manufacturers, to show recording equipment and technology and exchange information in the field of high fidelity. Robin had a stint with Consumers Union and BME Magazine and wrote articles for the NY Times, NY Times Sunday Magazine, Architectural Forum, Stereo Quarterly, Stereo and High Fidelity Magazine, and for the Audio Engineering Society. He traveled to Japan for Sony to visit its organization and plants and write about its production of sound equipment.

Robin is survived by his wife, Madi; daughters Mary Day Wollheim, Sabina Massenger, and Kate; and son Christopher. The class extends its sympathy to the entire family.

The Class of 1931