Richard E. Baiter Jr. ’60

Dick came to Princeton from the Kent School, where he played baseball, football, and hockey. He was preceded at Princeton by grandfathers 1906 and 1915, father ’36, and succeeded by brother Peter ’63. Dick kept busy with economics, student-faculty discipline committee, USGC, and presidency of Tiger Inn.

After graduation and six months of Army service, Dick enrolled at New York University and joined First National City Bank, rising to vice president in 1970. Married to Lynn in 1962, they migrated to Cleveland and Union Commerce Bank in 1971, where Dick became a VP and worked, among other things, with George Steinbrenner in acquiring the New York Yankees.

In 1978, Dick realized his entrepreneurial instincts with a move to Spokane, Wash., to acquire Quarry Tile Co., which he led and expanded until retirement in favor of his children around 2000. He was deeply involved in civic affairs and loved gardening, golf, and family time at Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho, not far away, where he had enjoyed boyhood family summers. While the family spent four seasons there, Dick also founded the challenging Links Golf Club in Post Falls, Idaho, near Spokane.

Lynn died in 2004. Dick later reunited with his college years sweetheart, Anne North. He died Nov. 7, 2024, and is survived by his three children, five grandchildren, and their families.