Dick was born Jan. 10, 1930, in Scranton, Pa., the son of Ethel C. and Ernest K. Loveland 1914.

He graduated from Cranford (N.J.) High School, and at Princeton he majored in sociology. He played 150-pound football and was varsity track manager and a member of Campus Club. He roomed with Dave Semonite and graduated cum laude.

As a member of ROTC, Dick served for two years after college as an Army artillery officer in Korea. He married Margot Gilbert in 1952.

Dick earned a master’s degree from Trinity College (1957) and a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut (1963). His entire career was dedicated to education. He started at Avon Old Farms School (chair, history department); then went to Buffalo Seminary (assistant headmaster); and then to Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. (dean of students).

Thereafter he was headmaster at the Kimberley School in Montclair, N.J., and in 1973 became headmaster at Crystal Springs School in Hillsborough, Calif., where he remained until 1989.

After an interim headmastership at Colorado Academy in Denver, he and Margot retired to Oregon in 1991. Dick died of throat cancer Dec. 8, 2012, at the Rogue Valley Manor in Medford. Margot died three weeks later. They are survived by their son, Richard Wardell Loveland ’81, and grandson Christopher.

Undergraduate Class of 1951