Richard Woodruff Jacobus ’40

Dick died Mar. 10, 2003, at the Mobile Infirmary in Alabama. The Newark Star-Ledger obituary identified him as a Princeton graduate of '41, but in all of the past Heralds, reunion books, and records, there is Dick Jacobus '40. We are proud to claim and honor him as our own.

Dick prepared at Blair Academy. At Princeton he majored in politics and was a member of Cloister Inn, rooming with Frank Lockhart. He graduated from the Army's Command and General Staff School in 1945, after serving in the Army Signal Corps as a captain in India, where he was awarded the Bronze Star and Burma Star. He also served in the Army Reserve until 1953, and was a life member of the China-Burma-India Organization.

He joined Prudential Insurance Co. in 1947, working as a group representative and account executive for 35 years. Dick was an avid fisherman, golfer, and saltwater skipper, as well as a member of the US Power Squadron. He was proud of his active family —"all beauties."

His classmates extend their sincere condolences to his wife of 56 years, Ellen Gillespie Cook Jacobus; his daughters, Dawn, Susanne Howarth, Faire Feaz, Linda Applegate, Wendy Matrisciano, and Lori Crawford; a son, Thomas; a sister, Norma Riddle; 21 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.

The Class of 1940