Richard D. Banz Jr. ’60

Dick had already lived six years abroad before coming to us via Lake Forest High School in Lake Forest, Ill. At Princeton he majored in the special program in European culture, ate at Tower, and joined the Undergraduate Council, Triangle, and the ski team.

Dick studied at the New York Finance Institute from 1961 to 1962, and then at University of Chicago Business School from 1962 to 1963. He then joined First Boston. With that company, he moved to Zurich in 1968, then to Paris with Morgan Stanley in the 1970s, and to the United Kingdom with Chase Manhattan from 1977 to 1989. Competent in a half-dozen languages, Dick prided himself on having worked 30 years in “old-fashioned” investment banking. He and Judy came back to the United States in 1998 and settled in Boca Grande, Fla., but kept their villa in Cortona, Italy. Dick enjoyed travel, fine scotch, and cigars. He read widely and practiced irascibility as an indoor sport.

A liver transplant 10 years ago stabilized his health, but it declined in recent years, and he suffered a stroke in February and died March 20, 2018 — the same day as the last male northern white rhino in the world died, as his son Christian observed in reporting his death.