RICHARD W. LEIGHTON ’42

RICHARD W. LEIGHTON, a retired business executive and an active community volunteer, died June 29, 2012, at age 91. He was the son of William E. Leighton of the class of 1909, and the nephew of Ralph W. Leighton of the class of 1905 and of Harold C. Martin of the class of 1925. A member of Beta Theta Pi, he joined the U.S. Navy during World War II and continued to serve for 27 years. During his service in the Navy, he earned an MBA at Stanford University. After retiring from the Navy, he worked at the Bath Iron Works and the Maine Hospital Association while volunteering in the Brunswick, Maine, area. He was a past president of the Mid-Coast Red Cross and a recipient of the Clara Barton Award, as well as a Paul Harris Rotary Fellow. His first wife, Christine Davis Leighton, predeceased him. Among those who survive are his wife, Eileen Fletcher, three sons, one grandson, his brother, and a large extended family.