Richard Miller Bosard ’35

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Dick died on May 4 in Minneapolis at the age of 87. Born in Minot, N.Dak., he prepared for Old Nassau at the Blake School in Minneapolis, where he was a member of the French Club, the dramatic association, and graduated cum laude. At Princeton he majored in psychology and belonged to Court Club. Next stop, Harvard law, from which he graduated in 1938.

During WWII, Dick served as an Army captain in North Africa, Italy, southern France, and Germany. He then returned to Minneapolis, where he became a partner in the law firm of Nieman, Bosard, and Arthur.

Although Dick maintained little contact with Princeton or the Class of '35 in the last decades of his life, we did reach him by phone in Mar. 2000, shortly before his death. Life had been good to him, he recalled, including his years on the Princeton campus. He left no survivors.

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