Roy Sandor Popkin

Background

Popkin, Roy Sandor was born on March 4, 1921 in New York City. Son of Louis and Zelda (Feinberg) Popkin.

Education

Student, University North Carolina, 1938-1939; student, New York University, 1939-1941.

Career

Various public relations and management positions, American Red Cross, Brooklyn and Washington, 1942-1959; disaster director New York City chapter, American Red Cross, 1959-1960; assistant national director disaster services, American Red Cross, Washington, 1960-1981; deputy national director disaster services, American Red Cross, Washington, 1981-1984, retired; senior environmental specialist, consultant, researcher, writer, editor, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, since 1984. Senior associate Research Alternatives, Rockville, Maryland., since 1968. Member task forcePres.'s Commision on Three Mile Island, Washington, 1979-1980.

Member task force to study recovery Hurricane Hugo National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and George Washington University.

Achievements

• Roy Sandor Popkin has been listed as a notable management consultant, researcher, writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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• book

  • Technology of necessity; scientific and engineering development in Israel

    (Technology Of Necessity)

  • Technology of necessity : scientific and engineering development in Israel.

Membership

Fire commissioner S. Hempstead (New York) Fire District, 1959-1960. Board directors Garrett Park (Maryland) Public Library, 1965-1968, Community Psychiatric Clinic, Bethesda, Maryland, 1963-1965, Natural Hazards Research and Applications Center, University Colorado. Member advisory board Cumbeland Hospital, Brooklyn, 1959-1960, 81—.

Member Association States Flood Plains Managers, International Desalination Association, National Water Supply Improvement Association.

Interests

• Avocations: gardening, traveling.

Connections

Married Dorothy R. Popkin, April 28, 1943 (divorced June 1971). Children: Gail Popkin Ohnsman, Raymond Louis. Married Mary O'Rourke, June 26, 1971.

Father:

Louis Popkin

Mother:

Zelda (Feinberg) Popkin

Spouse:

Dorothy R. Popkin

Spouse:

Mary O'Rourke

child:

Raymond Louis Popkin

child:

Gail Popkin Ohnsman Popkin