Doris ‘Rosalie’ Dunker, 91, Crystal City

Robert A.G. Monks, a ‘traitor to his class’ who challenged corporate norms, dies at 91

Shareholder activist and multi-time U.S. Senate candidate Robert Augustus Gardner Monks, known as Robert A.G. Monks, died on April 29 at his home in Cape Elizabeth. He was 91 and died of pancreatic cancer, which had been diagnosed a week earlier, his son told the New York Times. A Massachusetts native, Monks was born into generational wealth, earned a law degree at Harvard in 1958 and became a successful businessman and wealth fund manager, who …

Doris ‘Rosalie’ Dunker, 91, Crystal City

Doris ‘Rosalie’ Dunker, 91, of Crystal City died May 9, 2025.

Robert A.G. Monks, Crusader Against ‘Imperial’ C.E.O.s, Dies at 91

Robert A.G. Monks, at his home in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, in May 2013. Partly as a result of his efforts and those of like-minded activists, more companies separated the jobs of chairman and chief executive, which had often been held by the same person.