Robert Wilbur Locklin ’54


Robert Wilbur Locklin ’54 passed away on February 17 in Tucson, Arizona. Rob came to Dartmouth from Urbana (Illinois) High School. At Dartmouth he was a member of the Marching Band, the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra and the Flying Club. After leaving Dartmouth he graduated from the University of Illinois and then received his M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. He then served in the U.S. Army from 1954 to 1956. Rob worked for IBM for all of his professional career, living in New York, Texas, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Vermont before retiring to Tucson in 1988. He had a lifelong love of flying, earning a commercial pilot’s license and flying for the civil air patrols in Vermont and Arizona. He was also an avid hunter and fisherman. Bob is survived by his wife, Mary, and son Steven.