OBITUARIES - July 30, 1988

Edward M. Roginski; MCA Universal Pictures Executive

Edward M. Roginski, 44, president of marketing for MCA Universal Pictures. Roginski, an honors graduate of Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., who held a master’s degree from Harvard where he also taught, began as a publicist for Columbia Pictures. From there he advanced to director of publicity at Universal, returned to Columbia as vice president for West Coast publicity and promotion, then back to Universal. For a time he was head of the DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group’s marketing division before being named to his last Universal position in 1986. In North Hollywood on Thursday of the complications of AIDS.