Richard L. Shanley ’50

Rick died June 19, 2021, in Florida.

Born in New York City, he graduated from The Hill School. At Princeton, where his father was a member of the Class of 1916, Rick worked for WPRU, played rugby, and belonged to Cottage. He majored in geological engineering.

Upon graduation, he earned a law degree from Fordham. After an Army hitch, mostly in Alaska, he joined the U.S. Justice Department in Nassau County, N.Y. He worked first in the antitrust division and then as a prosecutor against organized crime. By our 50th reunion he had retired, noting that “despite my efforts organized crime is still flourishing.”

He retired to a South Florida condo, though he spent much time at his house in the Poconos, where he found hunting and fishing at his doorstep. Rick enjoyed the outdoors. He floated the Grand Canyon, backpacked above the Arctic Circle in Alaska’s Brooks Range, and fly-fished in the Canadian Arctic.

He never married. We have no record of family survivors, but do know that in his Florida retirement community he was an active volunteer and had many close friends.