Samuel J. Weintraub, senior partner of Weintraub, Robinson, Weintraub & Stock, died on December 12, 1993 at the age of 76. A graduate of Georgetown University Law School, Mr. Weintraub served as assistant to the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board and moved to Memphis in 1954 to become officer in charge of the Local NLRB office. He entered private practice in 1958.

In addition to his private sector work, he has represented the City of Memphis, Memphis School Board, Shelby County School Board, Memphis Light Gas & Water, Memphis Area Transit Authority, and other public agencies since the turbulent period of Memphis public sector labor relations in the sixties and seventies and helped guide them to their present state of stable labor and contractual relations.

Mr. Weintraub had served as national chairman of the American Bar Association Committee on Antitrust and Labor Relations Law. He taught labor law at Cornell University and Memphis State University. He was selected by his peers as one of The Best Lawyers in America.

He was a past president of Beth Shalom Synagogue and a member of the board of directors of the Memphis Jewish Community Center and Memphis Jewish Family Service. He served as national vice chairman of Israel Bonds from 1980-1991. His community activities included leadership roles with the Memphis Chamber of Commerce, the Rhodes College annual fund campaign, the United Way Campaign, March of Dimes, Goodwill Industries, the Kidney Foundation, and the National Council of Christians and Jews. He was a life member of the NAACP.

Mr. Weintraub was vice president of the Chickasaw Council of the Boy Scouts of America and in 1987 received the Silver Beaver award, the highest leadership award in scouting. He also was a founder of the Memphis Corporate Tennis Classic and won senior city and state tennis championships.

Mr. Weintraub served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II rising from Private to the rank of Major. He participated in over 100 combat patrols and subsequently pioneered Psychological Warfare in the Pacific. He served on the General Staff of the Commanding General, Tinian, Marianna Islands, as Assistant Air Commander, Nanumea Island Command and as Intelligence Officer of Hickam Field, Oahu, Hawaii. His military activities have been featured in national periodicals, including Liberty Magazine, Yank Magazine, and Climax Magazine, as well as in numerous press reports in the United States and Japan.