Richard Armstrong, retired vice president of Chase Manhattan Bank, died Aug. 30, 2018, after a short illness, at age 86.
Armstrong graduated summa cum laude from Harvard in 1954. After service as a lieutenant in the Navy, he earned an A.M. degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in 1959.
He entered civilian government service at the Atomic Energy Commission and NASA. He then became the deputy project manager of the Head Start program at HEW. During the 1967-68 academic year, he was a visiting student at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. In this non-degree program, he had a National Institute of Public Affairs Fellowship.
Armstrong later went on to a successful 23-year career at Chase Manhattan Bank, now J.P. Morgan Chase. He retired as vice president and chief financial officer of the bank’s commercial sector.
He is survived by his wife, Barbara; sons Richard ’87 and James ’90; and their families.
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