ASU remembers
Milton Lepkin
Adjunct Professor of Psychology
Milton Lepkin, MD, 89, passed away February 4, 2011. He was preceded in death by his wife Evelyn (Hoffman) Lepkin, a son and two siblings. He is survived by a son, two grandsons and special friend, Lita Hofberg of Aurora, Colorado. Dr. Lepkin graduated from City College of New York, and attended Syracuse University in the 1940s, earning his PhD in Psychology, in 1953. In the early 1950s, he worked with renowned industrial psychologist Frederick Herzberg at the University of Pittsburgh. Milt moved to Chicago with his family to be director of the Young Mens' Jewish Council. Later, in Chicago, he started parallel businesses -- Career Consultants, for business executives seeking employment, and M Lepkin & Co., an executive search firm for businesses. During this time, Dr. Lepkin also taught psychology at what is now Chicago State University. In addition, he worked as a psychological counselor in the Mental Health Department of the City of Chicago, and provided private psychological therapy. Milt and his wife, Evelyn, retired in 1979 and moved to the Phoenix area, where he was an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at ASU. After Evelyn died in 1996, he moved to Denver to be closer to his son's family.
February 4, 2011