of Veterans Affairs - Board of Contract Appeals. He
retired in 2007.
class at Surrattsville Elementary....didn't know he'd become a judge but
that would fit his character perfectly.
Rob Singleton
Dick. I met him in fifth grade in Mrs. James' class at Surrattsville
Elementary. He was always friendly, kind, and very smart. He and I
played on at least one little league baseball team together with the
Clinton Boys and Girls Club. I believe I remember him playing drums in
the Jr. High and High School bands. We knew each other through
graduation, then I lost track of him. As Rob said, I didn't know of his
legal and military background culminating in a judgeship, but it's not
surprising. The obit describes him as a most honorable man and I'm
absolutely sure that's true. The world is diminished by his passing. May
he rest in peace.
Jim McGill
Shisler, Wick, & Dick spent the whole day fixing fences on his parents
property. He was an extremely smart & nice person. My sympathy goes
out to his family. Thanks for letting me know.
George Hardy
was in my history (and possibly English) class in our junior year, taught
by Mrs Jane Baskin. I always remember Dick as one of the absolutely
brightest students in our class, SHS '66, and I'm not surprised he went
on to become an attorney while also serving his country in the Army and
DC National Guard.
Joe Marston
story" is remembering the time he had me out to the family farm, to look at the tobacco
(remember all the tobacco in Southern Maryland?), and to show me an old, old tobacco barn,
complete with a hand-carved wooden screw which was used to place the lids on hogs-heads
(huge barrels) full of tobacco. When the lid was secured, the back wall of the barn was let
down onto the ground, and the hogs-head was pushed out of the barn, to slowly roll down a
long trough, to end up in Piscataway Creek, and then onto the Potomac where it was
collected and sent to England. In many a community, to this day, those former hogs-head
troughs have subsequently been turned into roads, and at least one near Baltimore is still
known as "Rolling Road."
Alongside the hogs-head area in that old tobacco barn, up on blocks, was a mist-green
Bentley automobile covered by sheets of plastic, with a protective layer of grease over all the
exposed metal. Dick told me that an Uncle had given him the car, but it was not to be driven
until he was 21. It had beautiful tan leather upholstery and he and I sat in that car more than
once, imagining how great he would look, driving that gorgeous car! I never knew if he finally
did get the car, but I hope that today, he is somewhere driving through the clouds, looking
just grand!
Mark LeMar
The cast of Charley's Aunt bonded into such a great group of kids with the common goal of putting
on the best show we could muster. I played Lord Fancourt Babberly a.k.a. "Charley's Aunt," Donna
Lucia d'Alvadorez, "from Brazil, where the nuts come from." Naturally, Dick signed my yearbook to
"Rich, you nut from Brazil." I loved the look on his face when I sneezed because of the bouquet of
flowers my "nephews" lovingly jammed down the front of my dress. My wig went flying across the
stage towards the audience. It must have been an eternity for Dick to wait for Carl Brumback to
retrieve it, give it back to me and then for me to put it back on before he could say his line... We
have lost another SHS Class of '66 Icon. Prayers for his family.
Rich Weaver
rest of the cast, in rehearsing and putting on the senior play, Charley's Aunt. Dick played a crusty
English gentleman. I was the butler. He had a great time working on his English accent. I also
remember a Sophomore English project, Mrs. Windsor's class, that was to be imaginative and
deal with mythology. Dick, Rick Scherer, and I decided to make a home movie about mythological
tales of Earth's creation and the first humans. We filmed at my home, which we temporarily
dubbed McShersky studios, and made a tape recorder sound track to match the 8mm film. Dick
and I both handled the narration. Rick and I got facial shots in the movie but the only part of Dick
to be filmed was a bare foot. Maybe some of you remember us showing that film in some of Mrs
Windsor's English classes. What a great time!
Jim McGill