Richard D. Leggat ’48

Richard D. Leggat ’48 of Cohasset, Massachusetts, died peacefully on June 17 surrounded by his family. He entered Dartmouth a month before his 16th birthday and subsequently enlisted in the Navy, serving in the Pacific until the end of World War II, when he returned to Dartmouth. He was a member of Alpha Delta and Green Key Society, graduating in 1948. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1951 and then attended officer candidate school and served in the Judge Advocate General Corps from 1951 to 1954. Following discharge he joined the firm of Bingham, Dana & Gould, where he practiced law for more than 50 years. He married Patricia Bowler in 1954. They moved to Cohasset, where Dick began a long history of service to the town and surrounding area. Among his many roles he was chairman of the Cohasset advisory committee and charter commission, the parish committee of the local Unitarian church and the lawyers division of the United Way. He was trustee of the Laboure Center, served on the board of Masco Corp., was a founding member of the Cohasset Conservation Trust and a longtime board member of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. He served Dartmouth on the Alumni Council and as secretary of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts in addition to his roles for the class of 1948. In 1983 he received a Dartmouth Alumni Award. In addition to Patsy, he is survived by their six children and numerous grandchildren, nieces and nephews.