Richard S. Pond ’43

Dick died Jan. 27, 2024, in Walton, N.Y. He was 102 years old.

An only child, Dick prepped at Walton High School before coming to Princeton. He majored in geology and was a four-year member of the Band.

After graduating from Princeton in June 1943, Dick joined the 96th Infantry Division in the Pacific, then returned to Walton to work for his father’s insurance agency. He explored half a dozen other lines of work over the next several years, but Walton, N.Y., kept calling him back and in 1959, Dick took over the insurance business and ran it until he turned 80. At 100, he reported that he was still driving.

Dick was active in the Lions Club, followed sports, swam, played tennis, and traveled with friends. He never married or had children and lived in the house he was born in all his life. He will be missed by the community of Walton.