George Edward Richardson ’63

George Edward Richardson ’63 died February 24 while skiing in Zermatt, Switzerland. He lived in Lynnfield, Massachusetts, where he had been born and raised. George played on the 1957-58 Lynn English High School state championship hockey team and was inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame in 2008. George majored in economics at Dartmouth, played hockey and was a member of Phi Delta Alpha and the Asian-American Association. George served in the U.S. Army in Japan from 1962 to 1964. He returned to Dartmouth to graduate in 1966. He joined the Foreign Service and was assigned as vice consul and third secretary to the U.S. embassy in Seoul, Korea. George returned to the United States in 1968 to study at the Boston University School of Law. He became a partner of Johnson & Clapp in Boston from 1977 to 1997 and then went into private practice in Swampscott, Massachusetts. George was active in My Brothers Table, St. Stephen’s Tower Association, City of Lynn planning board and the vestry of St. Stephen’s Memorial Episcopal Church. George is survived by his wife, Gayle; daughters Susannah and Christina ’02, a class of ’63 scholarship recipient; son Douglas; and sisters Ann and Grace. Donations in his memory may be made to the George E. Richardson Scholarship Fund of Lynn English High School and to the National Kidney Foundation.