Martin E. Robinson ’48

Dr. Martin E. Robinson ’48 died November 23, 2014, at his home in South Kingstown, R.I. He was born in Houlton on July 3 1927, and prepared for college at Aroostook Central Institute and Paris High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Bowdoin in 1947, a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He also was a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. He went on to graduate from the Yale University School of Medicine in 1951. During the Korean War he served a two-year tour of duty as a first lieutenant in the United States Army Medical Corps. A Fellow with the American Academy of Family Physicians, he was a well-respected family physician in Hopewell Junction, N.Y., from 1952 to 1986. For more than 10 years, he was a volunteer at South County Hospital in South Kingstown. He is survived by sons Mark, Thomas and Peter Robinson; brother Stephen Robinson; and five grandchildren. He was predeceased in 2000 by his wife of 50 years, Eleanor Warren Robinson.

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