Richard B. Clement ’57

DICK CLEMENT DIED in Kirkwood, Mo. May 16, 1991, after a long and courageous battle with lung cancer.

At Princeton, Dick majored in history and was active in the Undergraduate Council, the 0range Key, and Theater Intime. He joined Key and Seal and roomed in his senior year with Mike Absher, Ben Belcher, Pete Burke, Jim Keen, Bill Guild, and Keith Neilson. We well recall his sense of humor.

After graduation, Dick was a Marine from 1957 to 1961. While in the Corps he married Patricia MacDermott, a fellow officer. They were divorced in 1979. In 1960, he flew a '57 beer jacket at 43,500 feet – a new record. He retired a captain.

After 1961, Dick joined I.B.M. in sales; then in 1963 he transferred to Bell Telephone Labs, also in sales, and in 1965 joined McDonnell Douglas Aircraft in sales and data processing. He was a council member in Webster Groves in the early 1970s and a State Department of Revenue official under Governor Bond. He later worked in marketing for Financial Data Systems and retired in 1988 from C & B Investment Associates, a family business.

He was active in the Republican Party, loved painting and history, and especially loved Princeton. He contributed to Princeton University every year since graduation, a record not many can match.

Dick is survived by two daughters, his father, a sister, a brother, and a granddaughter, He will be missed.

The Class of 1957