DAVID R.W. RAYNOLDS ’55

DAVID R.W. RAYNOLDS, 87, a bison rancher, diplomat and author, died June 19, 2015. He was an alumnus of Dartmouth College. After U.S. Army service from 1950 to 1953, he received a master’s degree from Wesleyan in 1955, did pre-doctoral work at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and later graduated from the National War College in 1973. Joining the Foreign Service in 1956, he served in the diplomatic corps in El Salvador, France, Haiti, Pakistan, and Washington, D.C. In 1966 he received the Meritorious Service Award from the U.S. Department of State. In 1964 he and his family spent a year in Lander, Wyo., where he wrote a book on El Salvador, and in 1975 they settled permanently in the Lander area and developed a bison herd at Table Mountain Ranch. He spent almost 40 years deeply involved in the community and spent 26 years on the steering committee of the Wyoming Business Alliance, with its Leadership Wyoming program. He was also involved with other local and national associations, including as president of the National Buffalo Association. Survivors include his wife, Mary Alice (May) Kean Raynolds, five children, eight grandchildren, and his sister.