Deceased April 20, 2013

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In Memory

Dick was 85 when he died in 2013 in Hackettstown, N.J. Born in St. Louis, he attended the John Burroughs School prior to Amherst, where he pledged Phi Delta Theta.

For many years he was a national sales manager for the Norfolk and Southern Railroad in New York City. An avid golfer, he was president of the Eagles Mere Golf Club as well as the Lions Club in Eagles Mere, Pa.

Dick and his wife, Martha (deceased before him), produced five daughters, Susan Benoit, Mary Layton, Marjorie Bevins, Lisa Alarcon and Martha Jane Method, and four sons, Michael, Richard, Robert and Steven. He is also survived by18 grandchildren, six great-grandchildren and a sister, Doris John.

John Priesing ’50