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on 09-Dec-01 08:27 AM
What follows is taken from Harvard Magazine (dated November-December 2001).
Since 1993 until his death late last summer, Mr. Sobin was the Honorary Consul General of the Kingdom of Nepal in Boston. He was a good friend of The Greater Boston Nepali Community (GBNC) and to many Nepalis in and out of Boston.
Mr. Sobin first visited Nepal in the 1940s as a military personnel, and his last visit was in May-June 2000, on his way to Lo Manthang up in Mustang Zilla. (I had posted a short, personal tribute on this site last September, shortly after learning about his death.)
May his soul rest in peace.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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JULIAN MELVIN SOBIN '41cl, IAF '88, died August 24 in Boston. He was chairman of his father's company, Sobin Chemicals, and senior vice president of International Minerals & Chemical Corp., the world's largest independent producer of fertilizer.
A trade adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, he served for 25 years on the federal advisory committee on East-West Trade. In 1972 he was among the first American businessmen invited to Communist China; he went on to visit that country on more than 50 occasions in the process of negotiating some 2,500 trade contracts.
He was a former director of the Harvard Alumni Association and a member of the Overseers' Committee to Visit the Center for International Affairs. He was an army major in the China-India-Burma theater during World War II. He leaves his wife, Leila (Feinburg), a daughter, Patricia Brightman, a son, Jonathan '72, and a brother, Lester.
http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/1101102.html
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