Richard Lloyd Regosin ’59

Richard Lloyd Regosin ’59 passed away on March 12, 2014, in Irvine, California. He entered Dartmouth from Southside High School in Rockville Center, New York, where he was a member of the National Honor Society and on the student council, the paper and the wrestling team. At Dartmouth Dick was a French major and brother of Gamma Delta Chi, comptroller of The Dartmouth and a member of Cercle Français. After graduation Dick earned his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1965. He had a long and distinguished career as a professor of French literature at Dartmouth (1963-69) and the University of California (1969 to retirement in 2008). He was an internationally renowned Renaissance scholar and published extensively, including two highly praised studies of Michel de Montaigne. He served several terms as chairman of the department of French at the University of California, Irvine, and built one of the top graduate programs in the country in French literature. He remained to the last an avid cyclist, gourmet cook, wine connoisseur and, in his later life, a student of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. Dick had a loving 52-year marriage to Barbara, and with her raised daughters Deborah, Rebecca and Elizabeth, all of whom survive, along with five grandchildren. Read a colleague’s remembrance at http://humanities.uci.edu/SOH/calendar/detail_news.php?recid=2431.