Richard Ernest Stifel II ’41

THE CANCER that took a leg in 1986 finally took Dick Stifel's life on Mar. 31, 1993. He had been senior partner at Goodsill, Anderson, Quinn, and Stifel, one of Hawaii's largest and oldest law firms. "It would be hard to find an area of [Hawaiian] law that is not defined, in whole or in part, by Dick's cases," said retired firm member Marshall Goodsill. Born in Toledo, Dick came to Princeton from Western Reserve, joined Cannon Club, and roomed with Carl Braun. He left our class in his junior year for an early marriage, completing his undergraduate studies at Michigan. He left law school there to join the navy. He served on Guam and Saipan, and then was posted to Pearl Harbor with the rank of lieutenant commander. He returned to Michigan for his law degree, then married Elizabeth Bolin in Berkeley and took her straight back to Oahu.

Dick's usual lunch break in lotus land was a peanut butter sandwich and surfboarding at Waikiki. His singledigit golf handicap slipped after he lost a leg, but he retaught himself to play and spent weekends at the Waialae Country Club. Every Sunday was reserved for golf with his wife, Beth. In 1981 ' he wrote, "With a wife who beats me at tennis, a daughter who swims rings around me, and a son who finished the 1980 Honolulu Marathon half an hour ahead of me, who could ask for anything more?"

Our deep sympathy goes out to Beth; daughters Bonnie and Candace; sons John, Martin, Richard, and William III; brother William II; and four grandchildren.

The Class of 1941