Richard Harold Schoolmaster ’42

Dick died at home in Montclair, N.J., on May 1, 1996, after a heroic battle with cancer. He devoted his entire career to the ministry and was retired at the time of his death.

Dick prepared for Princeton at Bradford [Pa.] H.S. and graduated from the SPIA with honors. He was on the freshman crew and a member of Terrace Club.

He received his BD from Virginia Theological Seminary in 1946, serving in parishes in Texas, Michigan, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. He also was the director of ministry to government employees, in Washington, for three years. In addition to serving on the boards of many community agencies and institutions, he was most recently chairman of the department of urban work of the Diocese of Newark. In 1967 he helped organize one of the first Black Power conferences in the nation, which was held in the Cathedral House in Newark. Charlie Crandall and Topper Cook both spoke at Dick's memorial service at the Seaman's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey. We have lost a classmate who cared deeply about others and devoted his entire life to promoting religion in every-day life.

To his wife, Marcia, to his three children, Timothy, Jeffrey, and Amy, to his stepchildren, Susan and James, and to his four grandsons, the class extends its sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1942