ARNOLD RUBIN

1927 - 2020

RUBIN--Arnold X. Age 93, passed away at his Huntington, NY, home on November 28, 2020. His wife of 59 years, Carol (Teichman) Rubin was by his side. A founding partner of RHG Electronics with over 300 employees in Deer Park, Arnold led a team responsible for innovations in radio and microwave technology, creating low-noise, high-frequency transmitters, relays and receivers integral to telecommunications, navigation and guidance systems. With his wife and friends, Arnold was a founding member of Kehillath Shalom Synagogue. After retiring in 1986, Arnold studied art at Parsons School of Design and divided his time between New York City and Huntington. His art, largely inspired by nature, hangs in the homes of admirers in both cities. He had a solo show, Mostly Monoprints, at the Huntington Public Library in 2006. Arnold was born on August 1, 1927, in Brooklyn to Jacob and Lillian "Libby" (Greenberg) Rubin. In his early years in Bedford- Stuyvesant and Bushwick, he loved tinkering and electronics, built his own radios, and assembled one of the first television sets in his neighborhood, which drew quite a crowd. Under his mother's influence, Arnold developed a love of music and could deduce the identity of any classical composer after hearing just a few bars of any piece. He spent many summers at his Aunt Mary Rubin's farm in Massachusetts, which was also a summer camp for the boys of political activists and intellectuals of the day. There he raised Paulella the calf, gobbled 20 ears of corn in a single sitting, learned to butcher a chicken, and astounded family and farmhands alike by wiring the barn for electricity. Arnold enlisted in the Navy at 17. Never having learned to swim, he walked across the bottom of the pool when he took the swim test, undeterred that this technique might not work so well in the Pacific Ocean. Stationed out of Tacoma, WA, Arnold was a "plank owner" (commissioning crew member) on the newly built destroyer U.S.S. Eversole. He applied his love of electronics to the brand new technology of radar, becoming a go-to authority on board, renowned for his "Universal Maintenance Adjustment," a.k.a. a sharp whack on the side of any recalcitrant device. He earned a B.S. in electrical engineering at City College of New York. Arnold met Carol at Tamiment Resort in 1958 when he beckoned her to come listen to a Chopin nocturne. They learned of their mutual love of music and when he discovered she also knew what a Van der Graaff generator was, it sealed the deal. They wed in 1961. In addition to Carol, he is survived by his sons Michael Rubin (married Tamara Hanneman) of Manhattan and David Rubin (married Birgitta Norman) of Brooklyn; and grandchildren Moses, Caleb, Tobias, Elsa, and Sonja. Donations in memoriam can be made to Kehillath Shalom Synagogue, kehillathshalomsynagogue. org or 631-367-4589.