Richard David Walk ’42

Dick died Jan. 2, 1999, from a cerebral hemorrhage at Suburban Hospital in Chevy Chase, Md. He retired in 1991 from George Washington U., taking emeritus status, after serving on the faculty since 1959.

Coming to Princeton from Shattuck School, Dick majored in the School of Public and Intl. Affairs, graduating with honors. After spending three years with the OSS in Europe, during the war, he earned an MA in journalism at the State U. of Iowa in 1947 and a PhD in psychology at Harvard in 1951. After two more years in the Army he served as an assistant professor at Cornell and then, in 1959, joined the faculty of GWU, where he served until retirement. From 1981-91 he was chairman of the psychology department. He specialized in perceptual development of humans and animals, and authored a book, Perceptual Development, in addition to writing several articles and chapters for other books. He also was visiting professor at MIT and the London School of Economics.

To his widow, Lois; to his three children, Joan, Elizabeth, and Richard Jr.; and to his five grandchildren, the class offers its most sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1942