Julian Malkiel, 82; owned ski lodge in Stowe, Vt.
For 12 years after graduating from college, Julian Malkiel worked for an advertising agency on Newbury Street in Boston. But one day in 1959, he veered toward another career path, leaving the city for rural Vermont to pursue a love of skiing.
"He and his wife just up and moved and bought a lodge in Stowe," said his cousin Dr. Gerry Kadis of Thomasville, Ga. . "He broke out of the advertising rut and did his own thing, which I thought was pretty remarkable. He took some risk, and I've always admired him for that."
To fund his skiing habit, Mr. Malkiel and his wife, Doris, whom he married in 1957, owned and operated The Scandinavian Inn on Mountain Road in Stowe for nearly 20 years.
"I always enjoyed visiting the inn when I was younger," Kadis said. "There were young girls from Scandinavia that waited on the tables. It was a homey, relaxing kind of place. I remember people would go in the sauna and then jump into the snow, and that was in the '60s."
A philanthropist with a knack for traveling, Mr. Malkiel, who lived in Jupiter, Fla., died May 6 at the Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center Hospital in Florida of complications from pulmonary surgery. He was 82.
"The hospital staff said he was the only dialysis patient they had ever seen that would show up in a sports car," Kadis joked. "He had a young-guy attitude his whole life. He was very youthful."
Through his years at the inn, Mr. Malkiel became involved with the Stowe community. He served on the Stowe Area Association, an organization dedicated to promoting Stowe businesses and cultural and recreational opportunities, and was president of the Stowe Rotary Club.
After his wife died of breast cancer in 1998, Mr. Malkiel established a need-based scholarship for promising University of Vermont students in the preveterinary program.
Raising standard poodles for much of their marriage, the Malkiels had become aware of the lack of rural veterinarians in Vermont and developed a close relationship with veterinarian Dr. Harold Brown, a UVM alumnus.
In another tribute to his wife, Mr. Malkiel established a charitable gift annuity of $100,000 with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston in 2005.
After selling their inn in 1977, the couple moved to the Florida Keys to pursue Mr. Malkiel's passion for fishing.
"He was a rugged individual," Kadis said. "Not afraid to venture off on his own, travel on his own, make new friends in faraway places. He was always on the move."
Born and raised in Brookline, Mr. Malkiel graduated from Brookline High School in 1943. He received a bachelor's degree in English in 1947 from the University of Massachusetts, said Ed Blaguszewski, spokesman for UMass-Amherst.
A lover of jazz music, Mr. Malkiel played the saxophone and enjoyed listening to Duke Ellington.
Mr. Malkiel was a world traveler who visited Japan several times a year for nearly 20 years, said his cousin Kenneth Kadis of Brookline.
Mr. Malkiel leaves several cousins and many nieces and nephews.
A public graveside service will be held June 21 at 1 p.m. at the Stowe Riverbank Cemetery.
