Richard Stotesbury Jessup ’29

DICK DIED Nov. 25, 1990, at Meadow Lakes, the retirement home at Hightstown, near Princeton, where he had been living since 1983. Dick prepared at Ridgewood School in Conn., and at Princeton roomed with Dave Kennedy.

After Princeton Dick did C.P.A. work in N.Y. and worked with MercerAllied Corp. and Wood Struthers & Co., and Scovill Manufacturing Co.

He was commissioned in the Army Air Force in 1942, and was a captain upon retirement. Technically he was on limited service because of vision deficiency, but as a cryptographic security officer was involved in landings at Sicily, Anzio, and St. Tropez, and received four battle Stars.

After the war he had some time in Wall Street and worked for two years with the Marshall Plan in Paris and two years with CARE. He started his own accounting firm in Smithtown, N.Y., in 1961.

In 1936 Dick married Elizabeth Parke, and after her death in 1978 moved to Meadow Lakes. In 1981 he married Ruth Lawyer Sokolnikoff, who died in 1983; she is survived by a daughter, Katherine Sokolnikoff Haas. in 1984 Dick married Anne Mills Long, and she survives, as well as her two children, Hoyt Long and Lucia Schwarz. The Class extends sincere sympathy to Dick's family.

The Class of l929