Richard Lee Buffington ’54


Richard Lee Buffington ’54 passed away at his home in Downington, Pennsylvania, on August 1, 2010. Dick came to Dartmouth from Elizabethville (Pennsylvania) High School and was a government major, a brother of Zeta Psi and a member of Air Force ROTC. After graduation he was commissioned an officer in the Air Force and served at Wright Paterson Air Force Base in Ohio from 1954 to 1957, leaving the service as a first lieutenant. Dick worked for Alcoa Inc. in sales from 1957 to 1962 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Chicago and Akron, Ohio, and then worked for Uniform Tubes as sales manager from 1963 to 1971. From 1971 to 1976 Dick worked for UTI Corp. as manager of international sales. In 1976 he formed his own tubing company, Accumetrics, concentrating on acoustic and glass to metal fabricated products. In 1982 Dick sold the company and in semi-retirement worked in the mortgage and financial industry until he retired in 1993. Dick’s sons Daniel and William and two grandchildren survive him. His son Christopher predeceased him.