Richard C. Jachens ’41

Richard C. Jachens ’41 died in Clearwater, Florida, on September 4, 2010. In college he played freshman basketball, edited the Dartmouth Pictorial and was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa. Dick spent 30 years in the Army, enlisting as a private in 1942. Within six months he was commissioned a second lieutenant. He and Marianne Dieter met and were married in 1943 and Dick then served in France with the 3104th Signal Service Battalion. Following his discharge in 1945 he returned to New Jersey, where he worked in the textile industry. He was recalled to duty when the Korean conflict erupted in 1951, serving continuously in sensitive posts in Asia, Europe and Washington, D.C., until his retirement as lieutenant colonel in 1972. During that tour he earned a master’s in education from Boston University. Marianne predeceased him in 1963. From 1972 to 1977 Richard and his second wife, Virginia, settled in Virginia, where he worked for the city of Virginia Beach as assistant to the director of the mental retardation and substance abuse program. Virginia predeceased him in 2006. Dick was an active participant in the Dartmouth Club of Sarasota, Florida, where he lived from 1991 until shortly before his death. Serving as secretary of the class from 1991 to 2010, he was recognized as Secretary of the Year across all classes in 1995. A model of service to others, Dick leaves a devoted, blended family of six children, 10 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.