Richard L. Riemer ’66

Rich died June 25, 2025. At the time, his residence was Oakland, Calif.  

He came to Princeton from Auburn (N.Y.) East High School, where he ran track, played basketball, and served as president of his class and the student council. At Princeton, Rich majored in religion, roomed with Cam McEwen and Mike Spence, and belonged to Cap and Gown. He sang with the Nassoons and was a member of the Westminster Foundation.  

After graduation, Rich entered Yale Divinity School, where he eventually earned a master’s of divinity degree.  

He spent a year as legislative assistant and speech writer for United States Sen. Ed Brooke of Massachusetts and he worked for a time for a D.C. law firm on a Ford Foundation study of the U.S. prison system.  

Moving to California, Rich earned an M.A. in clinical psychology from The Wright Institute, in Berkeley. In 1976, he accepted a position at a large community college as counselor for returning Vietnam veterans. After that, he was a psychology fellow in the psychiatry department of Mount Zion Hospital, in San Francisco.  

In the 1980s, he was in private practice as a psychotherapist, with offices in Oakland and Sausalito, while teaching at both Mills College and the University of San Francisco.  

Along the way, he acquired a 12-acre ranch in the Sonoma County wine country and a Victorian home in Oakland. 

He never married or had children.