Richard Allen Thompson ’58

Dick died July 21, 2003, after a four-year battle with colon cancer.

Dick came to Princeton from Wilmington (Del.) Friends School. He joined Tower Club and majored in the Woodrow Wilson School. His senior-year roommates were Harry Hadley, Dave Dantzscher, and Owen Terry.

After leaving Princeton and a brief stint teaching, he joined Delaware Trust Co. He was active in many civic organizations in Wilmington, earning the Wilmington Jaycees Young Man of the Year award in 1967. Later he moved to the Atlanta area, where he became involved, to quote his own words, in "the wacky, wonderful world of selling real estate."

In 1988, Dick won the Governor's Award for Academic Achievement for the Georgia Association of Realtors and was a member of the Georgia Board of Realtors.

Dick had a very positive outlook on life. In our 45th-reunion book shortly before he died, he wrote that he felt extremely lucky to be here and he valued and treasured each day.

He leaves his devoted wife, Joyce; son Jeffrey; daughters Anne and Elizabeth; brothers David and George; sisters Joyce and Nancy; and six grandchildren. To all, the class extends its belated but most sincere sympathy.

The Class of 1958