William Stirling Dickinson ’31

Dick Dickinson died Oct. 29, 1998, in an automobile crash in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he had lived since 1937. He was returning home from a Patronato Pro Niños board meeting when his car went off a cliff and plunged into rocks 50 feet below.

He prepared at Berkshire School and at Princeton was a member of Clio Hall and Key and Seal Club. In 1932, he went to France as a graduate student of the Chicago Art Institute. From 1942-45, he served in Naval Intelligence and the Office of Strategic Services doing intelligence work in Washington and Italy.

In Mexico his accomplishments and honorary positions were legion. He was president of the Instituto Allende, v.p. of the Red Cross, secretary of the Club Malanquin, president of the Twenty-Four Hour Assn., director of the School for Handicapped Children, treasurer of Escuela Colonia Azteca, manager of the San Miguel de Allende baseball club, a member of Lions Intl., and on the local hospital board. A director of the local arts and crafts school, he was designated Hijo Adoptivo Predilecto of San Miguel at the 400th anniversary of the town's founding (indicating his adoption as a native son).

A bachelor, Dick is survived by his sisters, Dorothy Little and Alice Friendly. The class extends sincere sympathy to the family.

The Class of 1931