Richard S. Morse Jr. ’63

Chip, a successful Boston attorney and a masterful blue-water sailor, was forever proud that his legal work helped young companies grow and create jobs in the Route 128 tech corridor. Such work thrilled him.

Chip died Dec. 15, 2014, on Cape Cod after battling lung and throat cancer.

After attending Noble and Greenough School with classmates Buse, Edwards, Chuck Henderson, and Mann, he majored in economics at Princeton. Chip helped lead the Keycept Program, joined Tower, and roomed with Collins, Helm, and Bob Lewis.

After graduation, Chip served as a communications and legal officer on a destroyer deployed to Vietnam. He attended Boston University Law School, and then rose to partner at Hutchins & Wheeler. In 1993 he co-founded Morse Barnes-Brown & Pendleton.

Retired at his home overlooking Quissett Harbor and Buzzards Bay in Woods Hole, Mass., he took intense interest in preservation as a board member of the Marine Biological Laboratory, Buzzards Bay Coalition, Quissett Harbor Preservation Trust, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

“I work mostly when I want to do things to improve our environment or our citizens’ lives,” he wrote in our 50th-reunion book.

The class shares its sorrow with Susan, his wife of 49 years; children Laura ’92 and Richard; and four grandchildren.