RICHARD L. LYONS ’43

RICHARD L. LYONS, a Washington Post reporter for almost 35 years, who covered the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment hearings of President Richard M. Nixon, died Jan. 23, 2011. He was 88. A member of Beta Theta Pi, he received his degree with distinction in history. During World War II he served in the U.S. Marine Corps in the Pacific as an artillery officer. In 1947 he received a master’s degree from Harvard University and then joined the Washington Post staff, where he covered the 1957 racial integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., as well as the Supreme Court, the House of Representatives, and the 1960 Democratic National Convention. His first marriage, to the former Mildred Damron, ended in divorce. Among those who survive are his wife, Shirley Elder, two children, six grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, two brothers, a sister, and a stepsister.