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IN MEMORIAM: Walter Robinson and Robbin Thorp

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Walter Robinson addresses 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Achieve, with backdrop of blue-and-gold balloons.
Associate Vice Chancellor Walter Robinson addresses Achieve 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ audience at Sacramento Charter High School in 2014. (Karin Higgins/51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis)

The campus community is invited to a memorial for Walter Robinson, Tuesday, Oct. 8, in at the Activities and Recreation Center.

The retired associate vice chancellor of Enrollment Management died June 9. Because it was late in the academic year, as finals and commencement approached, his friends and colleagues decided to delay the memorial until the fall.

Light refreshments will be served at 1:30 p.m., and the program will begin at 2 and last approximately two hours.

Read his obituary in Dateline 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis.

Robbin Thorpe shows photo of bee.
Robbin Thorp and screensaver with his photo of a Franklin’s bumble bee (Bombus franklini). (Kathy Keatley Garvey/51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis).

Robbin Thorp

A celebration of life for Robbin Thorp, distinguished emeritus professor of entomology and a global authority on bees, has been scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, at . Thorp died June 7 at his home in Davis. He was 85.

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