Malcolm W. Robinson Jr. ’57

Malcolm W. Robinson Jr. ’57 died on April 16 at his residence in Jacksonville, Florida. Mal graduated from Darien (Connecticut) High School. At Dartmouth he majored in economics and was a Sigma Chi brother. He was in the Glee Club and the yacht club, serving as its publicity director. Mal was NROTC all four years and completed his time in Hanover with an M.B.A. from Tuck School. He joined I.B.M. and he and his wife, Betsy, moved seven times for his career. His first assignment was branch manager in Jacksonville, Florida, then assistant to the CEO in Armonk, New York, before moving to Paris for six years as product line director for Europe and the Middle East and Africa. He moved back to New York to become industry director. Mal subsequently left I.B.M. to be CEO at Logisys, a logistics company funded by CSX and American Airlines. In their spare time he and Betsy sailed most of the seven seas of the world, rode horses, skied throughout the United States and Europe, and tended a menagerie of animals. In retirement, they moved to Ponte Vedra, Florida, he said, “to be with the great friends they met there in the 1960s and all their northern friends who, too, were charmed by the people and place.” Mal is survived by sons Malcolm ’82, Scott ’84, and James, and seven grandchildren. Betsy, his wife of 55 years, predeceased him.