STEPHEN BARKIN

BARKIN, Stephen Stephen Roger Barkin, 72, died on Nov. 29, 2017 surrounded by his loving family in Cambridge. Steve was a philosopher who spent his life searching for truth and finding the good in everyone. He had many friends in his long-time home city of Cambridge. Steve was a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. He also did graduate work at Tufts and Boston universities and attended Harvard and Williams colleges. He is survived by his mother, Alice, of Cambridge, his brother, Peter, and sister-in-law Joyce, of Cambridge, his brother, Don, and sister-in-law Maggie, of New Haven, CT. He also leaves nieces Ann Barkin, of New York City, Clare Barkin, of Cambridge, MA, his nephew Robert Barkin, of Cambridge, and a niece, Eve Barkin, of New York City. He was predeceased by his father, Dr. Robert Barkin. Steve did volunteer work for many years at the Robbins Library, in Arlington, Mass. Along with his philosophical achievement, Steve was known for his sense of humor and his genius for seeing all people for who, not what, they were. "Steve didn't have a snobbish bone in his body," as a friend put it. In his youth, he was a talented and disciplined athlete. As an adult, he became an avid sketcher. He remembered every book he'd ever read, having found the nugget of gold in them, from boyhood sports books to Moby Dick. He was a loyal Red Sox fan, who in recent years enjoyed watching games with his mother. Donations in Steve's name may be made to the Robbins Library in Arlington at http://www.arlingtonlibrariesfoundation.org/donate. A memorial gathering is being planned.

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