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“I will never forget the image of Dick walking with Robbie down the hall at Scholastic,” says Benham, who worked at the company for 30 years, including a full decade before marrying Robinson in 1986. The family business sucked him in: He took a job as an associate editor at Literary Cavalcade, a company publication, then stayed on, creating a magazine called Scope, designed to engage disaffected students with lively coverage of current events, world politics, and pop culture. After a stint as an Illinois schoolteacher, he returned to New York City in the early 1960s, hoping to gain entry to the literary world. An admirer of the Beat poets, Robinson kicked around in blue-collar gigs as a bricklayer and railroad switchman before going to graduate school at Cambridge. “I was going to be a teacher and a writer-joining Scholastic was never a consideration, and my father knew that,” he once told a reporter. But the son graduated from Harvard planning to go his own way.
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grew up watching his dad, Maurice “Robbie” Robinson, build Scholastic into a respected brand. “And you know, when the heart dies, I think the company will go the same way.” “He really was the heart of the company,” says Kathy Walsh, a former longtime marketing executive for Scholastic.
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