Albert Butler Richardson ’39

Al died Mar. 10, 1999, in Harwich, Mass., not far from his home in Chatham, where he had settled after his retirement in 1974. Al was born in Moscow when it was part of czarist Russia, his father being then manager of the Russian branch of the Chesebrough Manufacturing Co. When the Communists took over in 1917, the family crossed Russia into China via the Trans-Siberian Railroad and lived in China for a year before being transferred to England. There Al attended schools until 1933, when he spent two years at Andover before entering Princeton. He joined the Navy in 1944 as an ensign and served on a destroyer escort in the Atlantic and on a destroyer in the Pacific task force approaching Japan at the end of the war.

Upon his return to the U.S., he began work for McCann-Erickson Advertising. In 1947 he became advertising manager of the Chesebrough Co., and when that became the Chesebrough-Ponds Co. in 1955 he was named v.p. of advertising. In 1956 he became a director of the company.

In 1949 Al married Joan Thompson, who died in 1997. We offer our sincere sympathy to his survivors, including his children Sarah Whitehouse, Peter, David, Michael, and Mark, nine grandchildren, and a great-grandson.

The Class of 1939