Richard S. Morgan ’48

Dick was born July 5, 1926, in New York City and died Aug. 23, 2015, at age 89 in State College, Pa., where he had been a longtime professor of molecular biology at Penn State University.
Dick went to Andover and then apparently started college in the V-12 program (he wore a Navy seaman’s uniform for his picture in the 1944 Freshman Herald). He graduated from Princeton in 1948, earned a medical degree at Columbia, and served in the Air Force until 1953.
His avocational interests involved sculpture and the outdoors. He founded the Rhoneymeade Arboretum and Sculpture Garden in Potter Township, Pa., near his home in Centre Hall, Pa.
He is survived by his sons, Nicholas ’75 and Caleb; sister Diana Olcott; five grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Paw in print

January 2026
Giving big with Kwanza Jones ’93 and José E. Feliciano ’94; Elizabeth Tsurkov freed; small town wonderers.


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