Richard Shriver Lovelace ’40

Dick died Feb. 29, 2004, following complications from bacterial meningitis, at Essex Meadows in Connecticut.

He prepared at Calvert School and Gilman. At Princeton he played varsity soccer and tennis, and joined Quadrangle Club. He earned a bachelor's in mechanical engineering from Princeton, then earned a bachelor's in naval architecture at MIT in 1942. In 1947 Dick married Caroline S. "Coco" Oveson, whom he met when she was a hostess at Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club.

During WWII, as a lieutenant commander, he taught naval architecture at MIT and became ship superintendent at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, salvaging and refitting submarines.

Postwar, Dick was port director and dredging-operations director with National Bulk Carriers, opening up the Orinoco River in Venezuela, and in London, running a fleet of elegant barges carrying vacationers on the rivers of Europe.

In 1981 he returned to Essex and his historic home on the Connecticut River. He belonged to many professional societies, including the Princeton Club of NYC, the Dauntless Club in Essex, and, as an ardent sailor, the Nantucket Yacht Club and Nantucket's Wharf Rat Club.

Surviving are his beloved wife, Coco, daughter Cindie, son Rick, sister Jinx Rutter Brown, brother C. S. Lovelace '44, and seven nieces and nephews. The class extends condolences to all the family for the loss of this much beloved and most honorable man.

The Class of 1940