It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Henry M. Robert III on Sunday, January 6, 2019. Mr. Robert, 98, was the grandson of General Henry M. Robert and senior member of the authorship team for Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Revised (RONR). He began his association with RONR when he assisted his mother, Sarah Corbin Robert, in writing the 1970 edition, the most extensive general revision of Robert’s Rules. He also authored the seminal text Parliamentary Law.
Mr. Robert became a member of the National Association of Parliamentarians in 1981 and in 2015 was named an honorary president. His contribution to this association and to the world with regards to