Biography: Dr. Robert Carroll Malcolm, 88, of Little Rock passed away Tuesday, May 11, 2010. Known to all his friends and patients as “Dusty,” was born in Texarkana, Arkansas, on January 16, 1922 to Joida Moss and Edward R. Malcolm. Robert, as his parents called him, grew up in Texarkana, Arkansas, graduated from Texarkana Arkansas High School in 1939, and attended Texarkana Junior College for a year and a half before enrolling in Henderson State Teachers College in Arkadelphia. Called “Red” by his friends at Henderson, he was active in many sports and famous for fouling out of a basketball game early in the first quarter. Red met the love of his life—or perhaps she met him—in 1941 at the Colonial Tavern over a pinball machine. In 1943, Mary Sue Clark and Red Malcolm were married in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he had gone to study meteorology with the Army Air Corps. He served in India and China during World War II, returning from duty in December 1945 having acquired the name “Dusty.” Dusty returned to Henderson and graduated in 1946. He and Sue, also a graduate of Henderson, moved to Eudora, Arkansas, where Dusty taught high school math and science and coached football, basketball, and track. He also began there a life-long love affair with fishing. He moved to Jonesboro in 1949 to coach football and track and teach math. After acquiring a masters degree from Columbia University in 1950 and a son in Little Rock in 1951, Dusty and Sue moved to St. Louis, where Dusty enrolled in Washington University Dental School. While in dental school, they served as cottage parents in Edgewood Children’s Center for emotionally disturbed children at Webster Groves. With a DDS and two more sons, they returned to Little Rock in 1956, where Dusty set up practice with Dr. Marion Gray. He took over the practice on his own the following year. From then until 1998, when he retired, Dusty was active in professional circles, serving as President of the county and district Arkansas Dental Associations, and a member of the American Dental Association. He took great pleasure in knowing and following his patients, many of whom began as, or became, friends. Dusty was a kind and compassionate dentist to all his patients, many of whom asserted that Dusty was the only painless dentist they had ever known. Dusty was a member of the original dental staff of the Arkansas Children’s Hospital. He began eating lunch with a group of fellow dentists in the early 1960s, a practice that continued for over 45 years. Dusty signed a petition with a group of Little Rock professionals to stop Governor Faubus from closing the schools and firing teachers during the integration crisis in the late 1950s, a move that lost him patients and won him respect. He served on the draft board in the late 1960s. An enormous part of Dusty’s life and energy went into his faith and his dedication to his church. A lifelong Presbyterian, he served as deacon, elder, and member of the General Assembly Board of the Presbyterian Church U.S. He served on many Synod, Presbytery, and General Assembly committees and church groups. He was Moderator of the Arkansas Presbytery and Commissioner to the General Assembly. He was an early member of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church and a devoted member of Westover Hills. As he once observed, he enjoyed 10 ministers, countless committee meetings, and church suppers over the years. Every morning he studied scripture, writing questions and comments on small pads of paper. Dusty was “grateful for the chance to learn, serve, and grow in faith.” He knew almost every lake and river in Arkansas, fishing Lake Maumelle from the time the lake opened until his death. According to Dusty, he “never solved the mysteries of fishing,” but that never stopped him from wetting a hook. He never stopped enjoying the company of his sons and his friends floating a river or fishing a lake. Above all, he was grateful for his long love affair with Sue. The two made a good pair—feisty Sue and laid-back Dusty. Over the bridge or dinner table, they made quite a couple, growing closer to each other with each year. They moved into Presbyterian Village in 2001, where they lived together happily and shared the small and intimate chores of growing old together. They looked with wonder on and were grateful for their family, their friends, and their church. Dusty’s brothers, William F. Malcolm and Edward M. Malcolm, died before him. He is survived by Sue and their three sons—Clark, Alan, and Jim; three wonderful daughters-in-law—Judy, Nancy, and Bea; and five grandchildren—Andy, Russell, Anna, Caitlin, and Ian. All will miss him and admire the kind of life he led. A memorial service will be held at Westover Hills Presbyterian Church on Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 1:30 p.m. officiated by Dr. Debbie Freeman. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Presbyterian Village, 510 Brookside Dr., Little Rock, AR 72205 or Westover Hills Presbyterian Church. 6400 Kavanaugh Blvd., Little Rock, AR 72205. Arrangements by Ruebel Funeral Home, www.ruebelfuneralhome.com “If my boat sink, ‘tis to another sea.” May God bless and keep him, amen.