Richard S. Brennan ’60

Dick Brennan died of sepsis Oct. 10, 2012, after a brief illness.

He was born in St. Louis and attended Shorewood High School near Milwaukee, Wis., where he was president of his sophomore and senior classes and selected to spend his 16th year as a Kinsman Trust Scholar at St. George’s School in Harpenden, Hertfortshire, England.

At Princeton, Dick was secretary of the freshman council and a member of the Orange Key Intercollegiate and Undergraduate Schools Committee and Cottage Club, of which he was secretary. He majored in English and wrote his thesis on Sir Guyon in the second book of Spenser’s Faerie Queene.

Dick attended the University of Michigan Law School, where he sang in The Barristers and met Margaret “Jill” Wilson, who would become his wife. Dick practiced law with Shearman & Sterling in New York and Mayer Brown in Chicago, Paris, and London. He subsequently became general counsel of Continental Bank, J.I. Case, and Stepan Chemical Co. He loved city life, the Lyric Opera, and sailing on Lake Michigan as much as he enjoyed the restorative quiet of his family’s home in Amboy, Ill.

Dick is survived by Jill; children Sophie Brennan Carlisle, George, and Joseph and their spouses; and six grandchildren. The class extends condolences to them.