Robbinsdale Schools Superintendent Edwin J. Cooper in his office at Robbinsdale High School, 4139 Regent. Born in 1897, Cooper grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota. He served as a pursuit pilot in World War I. His first teaching job was at Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Cooper was hired as Robbinsdales’s superintendent in 1930. He retired in 1965. Robbinsdale Cooper High School is named in his hoonor.