Richard Howell Post ’26

DICK POST, human genetics researcher and writer, former officer in the U.S. Foreign Service, and longtime supporter of peace, died Feb. 19, 1993, of heart failure at Pennswood Village, Newtown, Penn. At Princeton, Dick majored in biology, rowed on the 150lb. crew, and was a member of Tower Club. He conducted Sunday services at Trinity Episcopal Church in Rocky Hill with Jim Koehler and Phil Sturgis '25.

After graduation, Dick worked at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Station for Experimental Evolution, He taught briefly at Smith and also at Harvard, where he earned a Ph.D. Dick and Rita Hutsel were married in 1931. He joined the Foreign Service in 1938, serving in Canada, Uruguay, and Argentina. Following WWII, Dick joined the Dept. of Genetics at the Univ. of Michigan's medical school,

While in Ann Arbor, Dick became a Quaker, opposed the arms race and Vietnam War, and served as a draft counselor. During retirement, Dick was a Quaker lobbyist in Congress, and conducted a voluminous correspondence with congressmen, in support of progressive causes.

In Dick's death, the Class lost a member whose sincerity and conscience will be remembered. Our deep sympathy goes out to Rita, their daughter Marguerite, and their three grandchildren.

The Class of 1926