Linda Frank worked in human resources from 1985 until 1988, with her last role being manager of employment/recruitment.  She then worked in the Executive Vice President’s Office for Myrna Whittington in 1988. Ms. Frank passed away on October 24. She was 66.

Raised in West Philadelphia, Ms. Frank attended the Westtown School, a Quaker boarding school in the Philadelphia suburbs, and graduated from Parkway High School. Ms. Frank began her studies at Penn Engineering in 1973 and was involved in early campus trials with personal computing.  She later completed her bachelor’s degree in sociology after a hiatus during which she married the love of her life, Leon Wallace Robbins, Jr.  Ms. Frank worked at the University in a variety of roles, including as a compensation specialist and organizational development assistant in human resources.

 In 1991, Ms. Frank earned an MBA, with an emphasis on public policy management, from the Wharton School, and the same year she accepted a position at the Pew Charitable Trusts, where she served first as an education program officer and then human resources manager. She also worked at the Redevelopment Authority of Philadelphia, and Towers Perrin. In 1999, Ms. Frank began working at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals in a series of progressively responsible human resources-related positions. Thereafter, she worked at Endo Pharmaceuticals as the director of human resources/strategic staffing. In 2005, she began working at the Rockefeller Foundation, where she served as the director of human resources for two years before accepting a position as a director at Glaxo-SmithKline, the company from which she retired.

Ms. Frank’s husband Leon predeceased her in June 2021.  She is survived by her children Leon Wallace Robbins III, Grace (Adam) Farrow; Rachel (Bradley) Miles, six grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, her siblings Lyria (Geoffrey) Howland, Lionel (Aseia) Frank, Laurene “Cindy” (Charles) Hill, Larry Frank, and Leslie-Anne Frank, her best friend Wanda Whitted-Smith C’77, and numerous siblings-in-law, nieces and nephews. A memorial service was held on November 6.