Richard R. Neill ’46

Only 14 years after Dick Neill joined textbook publisher Prentice Hall, fresh out of Princeton, he was asked to establish a company subsidiary, which he named Executive Reports Corp. There he served as president until his retirement in 1985, leading 50 staffers in creating newsletters, manuals, and book-length guides for major professional and business leaders, and producing $20 million in annual sales.

Dick served in the Navy V-12 program at Princeton and was commissioned an ensign at Columbia. He attended the Naval Indoctrination and Communication School at Harvard, helped establish the Navy’s communications headquarters in Japan, and earned a master’s degree at NYU. In 1952 he married his high school sweetheart, Pat Robinson; their son, Robert, was born in 1958. Both survived him at the time of his death March 7, 2014.

Since he was 5 years old, Dick was known as an avid New York Yankees fan. Over his many years, his love of the baseball club had to compete with his love of the Hudson River, which he long admired from his home in Tarrytown, N.Y. He will be well remembered as a friend devoted to the Class of ’46.