Background
Hopkins, Robert Arthur was born on December 14, 1920 in Youngstown, Ohio, United States. Son of Arthur George and Margaret Viola (Brush) Hopkins.
Hopkins, Robert Arthur was born on December 14, 1920 in Youngstown, Ohio, United States. Son of Arthur George and Margaret Viola (Brush) Hopkins.
Bachelor of Business Administration, Case Western Reserve University, 1949; certified loss control engineer, University of California, Berkeley, 1969.
Insurance agent, National Life and Accident Insurance Company, Lorain, Akron, Ohio., 1951-1956; insurance agent, National Life and Accident Insurance Company, San Mateo, California, 1951-1956; insurance agent, engineer, American Hardware Mount Insurance Company, San Jose, Fresno, California, 1956-1960; loss control engineer, Manhattan Guarantee-Continental Insurance Company, California, 1967-1977.
Organizer Operation Alert District of Columbia, Lorain, 1951-1952. Principal speaker District of Columbia, Fresno, 1957. Active Pleasant Hill (California) Civil Action Committee, 1981-1983, since 2000.
Civilian coordinator Office Emergency Services, Pleasant Hill, 1983-1985. Advisor, coordinator airshows and warbird aircraft, since 1980. Chairman board Western Aerospace Museum, Oakland, California, 1988.
Operations assistant for tower and operations 50th Anniversary Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, 1987. Advisor, coordinator Travis Air Force Base Air Expo '90, 1990. Advisor Air Expo '96, National Academy of Sciences Alameda (California) 50th Anniversary, 1990.
Advisor National Academy of Sciences Moffett Field Air Show, 1990, 92, California Coast Air Show, Half Moon Bay, 1993-1994, Dixon May Fair honoring World War II 50th anniversary, 1995. Warbird coordinator Port of Oakland Airshow, 1987. Warbird advisor/coordinator Beale Air Force Base, since 1993.
Member Smithsonian Mus, Smithsonian Air & Space Mus. Charter member National Museum of America Indian, American Air Museum Britain, Air Force Memorial Foundation. Life member Western Aerospace Museum Served with United States Army Air Corps, 1942-1946.
Member of Veterans of Foreign Wars (life. State civil disaster chairman Area 5 California 1991), Northern California Safety Engineers Association (vice president, president, chairman 1974-1977), Castle Air Museum Foundation, Inc., American Air Museum in Britain, Air Force Association, National Aeronautical Association, Confederate Air Force (member staff, leader Pacific wing since 1980, advisor controller since 1990), Hamilton Field Association (director operations Wings of Victory Air Show 1987, coordinator 1988, since 1989, assistant to president since 1989), Air Force Memorial Foundation Kiwanis (chapter secretary-treasurer), National Trust History Preservation, Aeronautical Club Northern California.
Married Mary Madelaine Bailey, April 6, 1946. 1 child, Marlaine Hopkins Kaiser.