FORMER D. C. A. SECRETARY SUCCUMBS TO PNEUMONIA

Ralph J. Richardson '09, former Graduate Secretary of the Dartmouth Christian Association, died in New York Jan. 13 from pneumonia following an attack of influenza. Mr. Richardson, who resigned his position in Hanover in 1923 in order to study at Union Theological Seminary, completed his preparation for the ministry last spring and was ordained at Hanover June 4. Since that time he has been engaged in Y. M. C. A. work, as a secretary in charge of coordinating the work of the Association in the preparatory schools and colleges of New Jersey.

Ralph Richardson was born in Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 14, 1886 and received his preliminary schooling at the Fairmont High School, Fairmont, Minn. In 1907 he transferred to Dartmouth from Carleton College and was graduated in 1909. Immediately following his graduation Mr. Richardson entered Y. M. C. A. work in Chicago where he remained until elected in 1917 to succeed Wallace M. Ross as Graduate Secretary of the Dartmouth Christian Association.

Mr. Richardson married Ellen C. Paige in 1917 and is survived by his widow and a daughter, Anne Richardson. Funeral services for Mr. Richardson were held in Hanover at the home of Professor C. D. Adams.

The following tribute to Mr. Richardson written by Professor Eugene W. Lyman, professor of the Philosophy of Religion, for the faculty of Union Theological Seminary was. read at the services :

"We of the Union Seminary Faculty, sorrowing deeply over the sudden death of Mr. Ralph Richardson, want some word of our esteem for him to go to his Dartmouth friends. We knew him as a man of rare christian spirit and of real gifts for friendship. His quiet independence mind, his faithfulness and success in his intellectual work, and his skill and devotion in practical service won our cordial regard. Those of us who knew him best admired him most. Our hearts are heavy that he is not to go on with the christian service which he had proven his ability so well to render, but his personality remains with us as an inspiration to unselfishness and to faith."