Richard Maxwell ’37

Sailor Dick Maxwell died Mar. 19, 1999, leaving a brother, Ed '36. His wife, Eleanor, predeceased him, as did his twin brother, William.

At Taft, Dick was into hockey, baseball and soccer. He majored in geology at Princeton and was on the championship sailing team in 1935. He was a general insurance salesman for three years and in a shipyard before starting in the Army's navy. He ran a floating dry dock for tank lighters, repaired landing boats, and taught marine maintenance before two and a half years' service in the Pacific. He participated in the New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, and Northern and Southern Philippines campaigns. This included the landing at Lingayen Gulf as navigator on an LCM. He was credited with almost finding a flock of geisha girls (they had just fled). He went on inactive duty in 1953, retiring in 1974 as a lieutenant colonel. Later came work as a marine insurance salesman with Sparkman & Stephens, as a yacht broker, and then consumer research with Market Research Corp. of America in NYC until he retired in 1979.

His hobby was ocean racing. He assembled crews for many Bermuda races (sailing in 13), and many Block Island, Miami-Nassau, and St. Petersburg-Havana races.

The Class of 1937