Richard L. Bonello ’56

Richard Leon Bonello died July 22, 1995, in San Diego, Calif. He was 60. Dick came to Princeton from Long Branch [N.J.] H.S., majored in the Woodrow Wilson School, and dined at Elm. He graduated from Harvard Law in 1959, clerked for a New Jersey Supreme Court justice, and served as a lieutenant in the Navy.

Dick returned to practice law in Long Branch, where he also became a real estate entrepreneur, solicitor for several municipalities, and a longtime power in Monmouth County Democratic politics. A former partner said of Dick, "He was truly a brilliant and farsighted real estate lawyer and saw opportunities no other businessman or lawyer could envision or create." Dick, a former schools committee member, was a generous contributor of time and money to Princeton. In 1988 he moved from New Jersey to California.

Dick is survived by three daughters, Betsy, Catherine, and Wendy Hernandez '90; his mother, Marie; two brothers, Francis and John; and two sisters, Carol Breitenbach and Lori Ertz. To all of them, the class expresses its regret.

The Class of 1956