Richard H. Groves ’44

Dick Groves died Dec. 26, 2011, at The Fairfax, a military retirement community outside Fort Belvoir, Va.

Dick graduated from Deerfield. At Princeton he majored in mathematics, played squash and lacrosse, and roomed with Bob Carlisle. He left to attend West Point in 1942. As an officer, he served in 27 countries. Postwar he went to Harvard Graduate School, and while a captain in the Corps of Engineers, married Patricia Hook in 1945.

During the next 40 years he was a parachutist, served in the office of chief of engineers, was on the general staff, attended the War College at Maxwell Air Force Base, was assistant to the secretary of the Army, and served in Vietnam in construction.

Dick retired as a lieutenant general and then headed a home for Army widows. Happily, he found time for one reunion — our 50th. Notably, his father was Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves, head of the atomic-bomb project in World War II.

The class only recently learned of his death. In 2011, he was survived by his wife, Patricia; four children, Carolyn Lewis, Patricia Campbell, Richard Groves, and Ann Odell; and nine grandchildren. His wife died in January 2014.