Richard Edward Young ’48

Dick Young died Aug. 3, 2006, at his home after a long illness. He had cancer of the larynx that was first diagonsed in the 1990s.

Dick joined us by way of the Lawrenceville School and graduated with an AB in politics. He was in the Outing Club and on the staff of WPRU, and dined at Terrace, where he was vice president. After graduation he started Navy flight training, and in due course flew the Pacific airlift from Hawaii to Japan and Manila.

Following discharge in 1952, Dick returned to Allentown, Pa., to preside over the family hardware-distribution business. After five generations of ownership, the business was liquidated in 1964.

Dick then found his way to the investment-advisory world, where he was joined by his son, David ’78. Another son, Ted, pre-

deceased him after a tragic accident in which he fell down the third story of Cleve House at Lawrenceville, suffered severe brain damage, and lingered semi-comatose for almost 17 years. Daughter Janet is an aspiring artist after years in the financial world.

To Ann, whom Dick met in 1952 and married the following year, David, and Janet, the class offers its condolences. We are all the poorer at the death of a loyal Princetonian and stalwart member of 1948.