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NABET's Robert Lind Dies: Retired Secretary-Treasurer
Robert Lind, who served two terms as the international secretary-treasurer for the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians, died Sept. 19 after a long illness. He was 75.
Lind, who grew up in Chicago and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, was elected secretary-treasurer in 1982 after working as a NABET bookkeeper.
Although he didn’t come up through the ranks as a NABET member, Lind’s head for figures, his good nature and desire to aid young officers helped him succeed as secretary-treasurer, his friend and longtime colleague Fred Saburro said.
“Bob was very gentle man, a very kind man,” said Saburro, regional vice president for the NABET-CWA district spanning from Nashville to Boston. “He was very good with young people, always willing to help and readily available. If you called him on a Saturday, you didn’t get the answering machine, you got Bob Lind.”
Lind helped streamline and computerize the secretary-treasurer’s office, which was based in Chicago prior to NABET affiliating with CWA. Among his accomplishments, Saburro said Lind updated woefully outdated membership lists and published a much-needed manual for local secretary-treasurers.
Lind retired in 1991. He lived with his wife, Emilia, also a retired NABET employee, in the Chicago suburb of Buffalo Grove. He is also survived by five children, nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Lind, who grew up in Chicago and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, was elected secretary-treasurer in 1982 after working as a NABET bookkeeper.
Although he didn’t come up through the ranks as a NABET member, Lind’s head for figures, his good nature and desire to aid young officers helped him succeed as secretary-treasurer, his friend and longtime colleague Fred Saburro said.
“Bob was very gentle man, a very kind man,” said Saburro, regional vice president for the NABET-CWA district spanning from Nashville to Boston. “He was very good with young people, always willing to help and readily available. If you called him on a Saturday, you didn’t get the answering machine, you got Bob Lind.”
Lind helped streamline and computerize the secretary-treasurer’s office, which was based in Chicago prior to NABET affiliating with CWA. Among his accomplishments, Saburro said Lind updated woefully outdated membership lists and published a much-needed manual for local secretary-treasurers.
Lind retired in 1991. He lived with his wife, Emilia, also a retired NABET employee, in the Chicago suburb of Buffalo Grove. He is also survived by five children, nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.