Ronald Bartlett Levinson

From Bangor Daily News, Nov 26, 1980 RONALD B. LEVINSON ORONO - Ronald Bartlett Levinson, 84, died Nov. 21, 1980, following a long illness, at the Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. He was born Oct. 18, 1896, in Chicago, second child and son of Salmon Oliver Levinson, J.D., and Helen (Haire) Levinson. He received his bachelor's degree from Harvard, sevred in World War I as a member of the Camouflage Corps, and received his doctoral degree in 1924 from the University of Chicago. After teaching for two years at Harvard University, he bacame head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Maine in Orono, and held this position until 1962, when he retired. He had written several books, the most important being "In Defense of Plato," published by the Harvard Press, and had authored a number of articles in learned journals. He is survived by his two daughters, Madeline Edmondson and her two daughters; Ellen Sato and her three children; and one son, Edward W. Levinson; his wife, Elizabeth J. Levinson; and a sister, Helen Furnas of Lebanon, N.J.