Richard D. Young ’46

In our 25th-anniversary yearbook, describing the 20 years after he earned his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena in 1952, Dick Young said, “Throughout this time I have been doing systems engineering and analysis work on a large variety of military systems, including missiles, aircraft radar, electronic counter measures, command and control, communications, and the new Navy ship systems.” The work was with Hughes Aircraft Co., then with TRW Inc., then Litton Systems Inc. It continued with Litton until retirement.

Dick’s spare time went to family and the California outdoors, with annual backpack hikes in the Sierra Nevada mountains, usually at altitudes from 9,500 to 11,000 feet. His death May 27, 2010, was not reported to Princeton until May 14, 2012. Survivors at that time were presumed to be his widow, Ragna, daughter Nina Louise, and son John Paul.