Robert D. Lee, Jr., Professor of public administration and professor of hotel, restaurant, and recreation management, and associate director/department head/director of those programs, Pennsylvania State University (1966-2003). He made extensive scholarly contributions to state budgeting and program budgeting systems in state and local governments. He received a B.A. from Wayne State University (1960), an M.A. (1963), and a Ph.D. (1967) both from Syracuse University. As an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University with the Institute of Public Administration, he assisted that state in installing a Planning-Program-Budgeting system (1969). The author of numerous journal articles, he also published the widely used textbook, Public Budgeting Systems (co-author: 1973; tenth edition, 2021), and Public Personnel Systems (1979; third edition, 1993). He was the ABFM Chair for 1996-1997. After retirement, he has held numerous volunteer roles and received volunteer service awards from the American Red Cross (2008, 2015), the Valley Area Agency on Aging in Michigan (2016), and the Michigan Medicare Assistance Program (2023).