Richard J. Ramsden ’59

Richard J. Ramsden ’59, of Lyme, N.H. Dec. 20. After a career on Wall Street and serving as a White House Fellow during the Nixon administration, he moved on to education finance as the founding executive director of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education in Hanover, N.H. From 1977 to 1982 he was vice president for administration and finance and then senior vice president and CFO at Brown, and from 1983 to 1994 he was president and CEO of Kinship Corp. He served on many boards, including as trustee and chair of the Investment Committee of Phillips Exeter Academy; trustee of the Nature Conservancy in R.I. and N.H.; trustee of Montshire Museum of Science (Vt.); director and chair of the Investment Committee of the Lumina Foundation (Ind.); and as a trustee of American University in Bulgaria. He enjoyed sailing and traveling and is survived by three children and their spouses; seven grandchildren, including grandson David Rabin ’14; and a sister.