BEDFORD, Mass., April 1 (UPI) -- Former United Press International photographer and editor Donald L. Robinson, whose UPI career spanned some 36 years, has died at the age of 69.
Robinson died Saturday, March 27, and a funeral was held Wednesday at the First Church of Christ Congregational in Bedford, Mass. Burial was at Gethsemane Cemetery in Boston.
Robinson, a large man with a ready laugh, served as manager of the Boston newspictures bureau and as New England Newspictures editor during the last decade of his career. For some 35 years, Robinson covered "first town" presidential balloting every four years in small northern New Hampshire towns, as well as the travels of six presidents.
His sports photographs were particularly memorable, and Robinson's shots became indelible images of the "impossible dream" World Series of the 1967 Boston Red Sox and the 1970 Stanley Cup campaign of the Boston Bruins.
Robinson was part of the UPI team covering the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich and was chosen photographer for the International Olympic Committee.
A member of the Eastern Ski Writers Association for more than a quarter-century, Robinson recorded the adventures and spills of skiers throughout the region.
Robinson won several local awards from the Boston Press Photographers Association and twice his photographs were submitted for Pulitzer Prize consideration.
Donald Lamont Robinson grew up in suburban Boston, attending the John Doscher School of Photography, Woodstock, Vt., after graduation from Concord High School. He began working for UPI as a stringer during his school vacations and was hired as a full-time photographer after graduation.
Between 1960 and 1965, Robinson served as a reconnaissance photographer in the U.S. Army Reserve.
Robinson is survived by his wife of 42 years, Judith (Loeber); a son, Donald III; and two daughters, Diane Robinson-Lima and Debbie Ann Stitt; and a sister, Sandra Hoagland.
