Richard E. Wilson ’31

Richard E. "Dick" Wilson died Sept.15, 1997, at the Carolina Village Health Center, Hendersonville, N.C., as a result of injuries sustained in a fall during a torrential rainstorm. He was 87.

After graduation Dick worked as a salesman of securities in two brokerage houses, successively in Ossining, Chappaqua, and Poughkeepsie, N.Y., then settled in Chappaqua as an officer of the Home Life Insurance Co. of NYC.

In 1939 he married Leonora Brown, and they had two daughters, Pamela White and Diana Shepard. Dick left Home Life and moved to Lehman Bros., where he served as a securities analyst until he retired in 1973, when he and Leonora moved to Henderson Hills, N .C., where they were living at the time of Dick's death. He was an avid fisherman and golfer-sports which he pursued all over the East Coast. Dick is survived by his widow, two daughters, five grandchildren, and two great­grandchildren. The class extends its sympathy to them all.