Background
Rodale, Robert David was born on March 27, 1930 in New York City. Son of Jerome Irving and Anna Apollonia (Andrews) Rodale.
Rodale, Robert David was born on March 27, 1930 in New York City. Son of Jerome Irving and Anna Apollonia (Andrews) Rodale.
He attended Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania from 1947–1951. Studying English and journalism.
He had two sisters, Nina and Ruth. Robert learned the basics of farming and gardening while growing up on the family farm in Emmaus. In the 1970s Robert played a major role in getting the state government"s attention through his Cornucopia Project, which stimulated the publication of state level analyses of how readily local demand could be met by local supply.
At a time of increasing energy prices, a new emphasis on eating local became his platform for a more sustainable way of engaging with his community. competed in the 1968 Olympics in skeet shooting and was inducted into the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame in 1991.
Robert joined his father at the Press in 1951 as an editors His first assignment was to read the galley proofs for The Organic Farmer, a precursor to Organic Gardening and New Farm magazines.
He worked alongside his father as president of Press until his father"s untimely death in 1971 during a television interview with Dick Cavett. He continued his work with the family publishing firm and non-profit agricultural research organization.
That work included editing the high-circulation Prevention.
He was the chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Press at the time of his death by car accident in Russia in 1990. On September 20, 1990, was killed in an auto accident in Moscow, while in the Soviet Union to establish a Russian-language edition of The New Farmer, one of several publications of Press devoted to an approach in farming that reduces reliance on chemicals. His widow, Ardath, died in 2009 at 81.
(1971 Rodale Press, age dis-colorization)
(Book by Rodale, Robert)
(Book by Rodale, Robert)
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Chairman Lehigh County Velodrome Commission, Emmaus, Pennsylvania, from 1974, Rodale Institute, Emmanus, 1987-1990. Friends of the Parks, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Married Ardath Harter, June 23, 1951. Children: Heather, Heidi, David, Maria, Anthony.