Richard "Dick" Oscar Adams

Richard "Dick" Oscar Adams passed away March 10, 2018, after a short illness. He was born on September 12, 1920 in Greenfield MA, and grew up there and in Meriden CT, before moving when he was nine to Manchester NH. He graduated from Manchester Central in 1937. During WWII, Dick served in Germany as a communications officer in the US Army. When the war ended, he entered UNH, was a member of Phi Kappa Phi, and finished his degrees in chemical engineering, while minoring in physics and mathematics. He made his way through college driving to ski areas in an old Army truck and selling coffee, cocoa, and tea to skiers, before becoming a teaching assistant. While teaching at UNH, and working on his doctorate, he was recruited in 1951 by Standard Oil to join their research division in Linden NJ. He worked for Esso/Exxon until 1982, moving to the marketing coordination department at 30 Rock in NYC, as part of the team that put a tiger in your tank, created the name Exxon, and brought you the first canopied,...