Richard C. Stanley ’50 died on April 17, 2009, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

He was born in Beverly, Mass., on April 20, 1927, and prepared for college at Classical High School in Springfield, Mass., and Worcester (Mass.) Academy. He entered Bowdoin as a sophomore after completing his service in the Navy, where he was a midshipman in the Naval Air Corps. He married Marilyn Jones Williams in February 1957, when he was a manager of the Friendly Ice Cream Store in Northampton, Mass. In the 1980s, he owned a printing company and raised Arabian horses in Los Lunas, N.M.