Richard Custer ’44

Dick Custer died of heart failure Sept. 29, 1996, at his home in Philadelphia, Pa. He came to us from Lower Merion H.S., and for three years roomed with Bob Miller, and during his senior year with Bill Zinsser. At Princeton he majored in history, earned numerals on the freshman tennis team, played intramural basketball, and belonged to the Glee Club. His club was Quadrangle.

Dick left Princeton in 1943 with his AB and spent 32 months in the Army, about half of it in the ETO as a cryptanalyst and German translator. After the war he attended the U. of Pennsylvania Law School and then spent four years as an operations officer with the CIA in Germany and Washington. In 1953, he joined the Philadelphia Natl. Bank, where, after 10 years, he headed its corporate trust department. Coronary artery problems prompted his retirement in 1982, but he kept busy as a consultant with the Executive Service Corps and as an arbitrator with the N.Y. Stock Exchange.

To Nancy, his wife of 35 years; his sons, Richard D. C. and Christopher C. L. '78; his daughter, Nancy E. K., and two grandsons, the class extends its sympathy.

The Class of 1944