Richard R. Caples ’48

Dick died Apr. 28, 2002, in Lebanon, N.H., of sudden heart failure. He was 80.

Dick was a native of Boston, was in the Navy from 1942-46, and joined us at Princeton in 1945. He played varsity football. He received his law degree in 1950 from Boston U. and immediately began his practice of law, as well as his long career of public service in Massachusetts. He and Phyllis Chase were married in 1957.

Dick served first in the Massachusetts house of representatives and then in the state senate from 1951-64. He was legislative secretary to Governor Endicott (Chub) Peabody in 1964, before being appointed commissioner of public safety. He served, too, in the attorney general's office. He was also active with a 27-year career in the Naval Reserve. Dick and Phyllis retired in 1984 to Wolfeboro, N.H., where he was a real estate broker.

To his widow, Phyllis, his sons, Richard and Daniel, and his daughter, Susan, the class expresses its condolences.

The Class of 1948