Richard Lindsey ’71

We lost one of our most dedicated and caring physicians when Dick Lindsey died from complications of Lewy Body Dementia Aug. 8, 2019, in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Dick graduated from Tabor Academy in Marion, Mass., where he was a standout wrestler and scholar. He studied English literature at St. Lawrence College, UK, before joining us on campus. At Princeton he majored in sociology, roomed with Liebmann, and belonged to Terrace.

Dick framed his future career in his senior thesis topic: health care for the poor. After graduation from University of Rochester School of Medicine, he completed a residency in internal medicine and a cardiology fellowship in Pittsburgh. He remained in Pittsburgh, practicing interventional cardiology until the mid-1990s, when he moved to Colorado Springs for the rest of his life.

Dick loved the outdoors, especially fly fishing, but also mountain biking, sailing, and climbing Colorado’s 14ers.

He had a son and daughter in his first marriage. In 1990 he married Lisa Manolakis and had a second son. Friends and family remember him as a kind, brilliant, gentle, and adventurous soul, with a heart for social justice.

The class extends its condolences to his wife, Lisa; sons John and Christopher; daughter Sarah Pakenham; three grandchildren; and other friends and family.