PROFESSIONAL
1. During his PhD project, Dick had 100% of the world’s supply of pure chromium-53, thirty grams worth roughly three million dollars B he lost five grams during his experiment.

2. Dick supervised the refueling of the U.S.S George Washington when it was a nuclear submarine. Today, the George Washington is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

3. Dick left the Navy because his next duty station would have been in Washington DC. However, he took a job in the Washington area and has lived there over 30 years now

4. Dick’s first experienced radical change in business when he installed computerized accounting systems for first time users in the construction industry

5. Mary Ellen financed the start of Dick’s business in 1984 from her commissions and bonuses at Wang Laboratories.

6. Dick’s company helped develop noise cancellation technologies for nuclear submarines. Today, that technology is used in Bose earphones

7. Dick is a serial entrepreneur - he has started two new companies since he retired.

FAMILY
8. Dick’s adopted father graduated from Dartmouth in 1913

9. Dick has an older brother by adoption who is also named Dick

10. Dick and his wife, Mary Ellen, were high school sweethearts

11. The first time Dick ever saw Mary Ellen, she sat on his lap and kissed him. He learned her name about two hours later that afternoon

12. Both of Dick’s daughters were born in Troy New York when he was a graduate student at Rensselaer living in a place called AFertile Acres

13. When they were twelve, Dick coached his daughters on a mixed gender team in an all-boys flag football league - the team finished with a 6-2 record, second in the league.

HOBBIES
14. Dick, a life-long New York Yankees fan, saw Mickey Mantle substitute for Joe DiMaggio in centerfield during his first visit to Yankee Stadium at six years old

15. Dick played goalie on the championship inter-fraternity league team at Rensselaer. His team was undefeated for 54 games over three years, and his goals-against average was 0.60

16. Dick is a certified scuba diver who has made over two hundred dives. His deepest dive was 132 feet of the island of Saba in the Caribbean

17. When Dick and Mary Ellen were dating, she watched him play softball and point Babe Ruth-style to the where he would hit a home run...and did it!

18. When he was in graduate school, Dick was the catcher for the Marshall’s Tavern fast pitch softball team who were city champions in Troy, New York three years in a row.

19. On his fifteenth birthday, Dick caught a seventeen pound fluke which finished second that year in the Pabst Blue Ribbon national fishing contest.

20. Dick is a life Master bridge player and also enjoys chess.