Richard L. Seggel ’36 *38

Dick died May 18, 2005. He was 91.

He prepared at the Peddie School. At Princeton he received a bachelor's in history and a master's in political science. After graduation he taught at the University of Cincinnati and Princeton. During World War II he served four years in the Army, rising to the rank of captain. His combat service in the European theater earned Dick the Bronze Star.

For 35 years he served in various positions in the federal government, including executive officer at the National Institutes of Health, deputy assistant secretary at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and at the Bureau of the Budget and Federal Civil Defense Administration. During this time he was a part-time teacher for Nova University in Fort Lauderdale. In 1974 he joined the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, where he developed and directed a health-policy fellowship program for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He retired in 1989.

Dick was active serving his church and the Boy Scouts of America.

Emmie, his wife of 60 years, died in 2002. He is survived by a son, Richard F. '68; a daughter, Celia Seggel; four granddaughters; and a great-grandson.

The Class of 1936