SPURGEON L. ROBINETTE ’64

SPURGEON L. (Lee) ROBINETTE III, a journalist, public relations specialist, and drummer for Gary and the Wombats, died June 5, 2016, at age 73. A member of Beta Theta Pi, he received his degree cum laude and with honors in English from the College of Letters. In 1967 he received an M.S. from Columbia University. During the middle and late 1960s he worked for several news and international trade organizations in New York City and Seattle. In 1969 he joined Weyerhaeuser Company’s communications department and worked at their Washington headquarters before transferring to Hot Springs, Ark., in 1980. He retired as the corporate communications director in the South for Weyerhaeuser in 2006. He was a lifelong, accomplished rock ‘n’ roll drummer who played several times each year with Gary and the Wombats, his college band. Preceded in death by his wife, Venda, he is survived by four sons and a loving and extended circle of family and friends.