J. Richard Ciccotelli *81

Richard Ciccotelli, who had careers as a professor and an entrepreneur, died Aug. 25, 2011, after a courageous 30-year battle with cancer. He was 60.

Ciccotelli was born in Berlin, Germany, where his parents were stationed after World War II. As a child he also lived in Panama. In 1972 he graduated from the University of Virginia, and in 1981 he earned a Ph.D. in religion from Princeton. In 1985, he earned an MBA from the Wharton School at Penn.

Ciccotelli started as a professor at St. Mary’s College of the University of Notre Dame, and then became a real-estate developer in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He also was a part owner of Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum in Atlantic City, N.J.

He is survived by his wife, Teresa; a brother and a sister; and five nieces and nephews.

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