Survived By: His Parents James and Elaine Horovitz, and his partner Melvin Dixon
Richard was a neighbor and close friend all through school. An honor student, he graduated from Middlebury College in 1968 and received a doctorate in African History from Northwestern U. in 1977. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Africa, went on to become a representative of the Ford Foundation in West Africa and then Executive Director of the Panos Institute, a non-profit organization. He lectured extensively on the impact of AIDS in the Third World and advocated for greater involvement of philanthropies in responding to the AIDS pandemic. Tragically he died from complications of the disease. Richard was smart, funny, sensitive, caring and always loyal during our entire life together. He is greatly missed by those who were lucky enough to know him.
I have wondered what became of Richard for many years and I am saddened to just now find out about his death so long ago. Richard was a good friend of mine during high school. He was indeed smart and earnest. He could have contributed so much more to the world had he lived.
I'm sorry that he was among the many good people who succumed to this dreaded disease. I can remember admitting patients (with few white cells) to a hospital ward, long before we had a clue as to what their disease was. Looking forward to ending it someday.
Richard was a dear and close friend both at NHS and beyond. He went to Middlebury College, I believe, after NHS and then on to do graduate work at Northwestern in African History.
I met up with him by accident years later as we were both doing our field research in the Ivory Coast for our respective Phds. We worked on historically related neighboring tribes -- he among the Agni and I among the Baule.
He made fast and strong friends everywhere he went, and was gracious and generous in including us all in his larger family of acquaintences among African scholars, villagers and everyone he met in the international community in Abidjan.
We crossed paths several times after our common work in Africa when he worked for years on the Africa desk of the Ford Foundation, then again for Panos in London.
He is dearly missed and held in fond memory for all his kindess and generosity toward all around him.
Helen Boyd
Submitted by Carol Andelman Samrock:
Date Deceased: July-17-1991
Age at Death: 44
Survived By: His Parents James and Elaine Horovitz, and his partner Melvin Dixon
Richard was a neighbor and close friend all through school. An honor student, he graduated from Middlebury College in 1968 and received a doctorate in African History from Northwestern U. in 1977. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Africa, went on to become a representative of the Ford Foundation in West Africa and then Executive Director of the Panos Institute, a non-profit organization. He lectured extensively on the impact of AIDS in the Third World and advocated for greater involvement of philanthropies in responding to the AIDS pandemic. Tragically he died from complications of the disease. Richard was smart, funny, sensitive, caring and always loyal during our entire life together. He is greatly missed by those who were lucky enough to know him.
Neal Epstein
I have wondered what became of Richard for many years and I am saddened to just now find out about his death so long ago. Richard was a good friend of mine during high school. He was indeed smart and earnest. He could have contributed so much more to the world had he lived.
I'm sorry that he was among the many good people who succumed to this dreaded disease. I can remember admitting patients (with few white cells) to a hospital ward, long before we had a clue as to what their disease was. Looking forward to ending it someday.
Neal Epstein (68)
Timothy Weiskel
Richard was a dear and close friend both at NHS and beyond. He went to Middlebury College, I believe, after NHS and then on to do graduate work at Northwestern in African History.
I met up with him by accident years later as we were both doing our field research in the Ivory Coast for our respective Phds. We worked on historically related neighboring tribes -- he among the Agni and I among the Baule.
He made fast and strong friends everywhere he went, and was gracious and generous in including us all in his larger family of acquaintences among African scholars, villagers and everyone he met in the international community in Abidjan.
We crossed paths several times after our common work in Africa when he worked for years on the Africa desk of the Ford Foundation, then again for Panos in London.
He is dearly missed and held in fond memory for all his kindess and generosity toward all around him.