"Dick and Patsy moved back to Clinton following his retirement and he spent much of his time restoring old volumes at the Hamilton College library. In June of 1999, Dick and Patsy were honored during the school's Alumni Weekend in recognition of their $1.5 million endowment to fund the position of a librarian. That was in addition to the Williams-Watrous-Couper Foundation that supports academic pursuits and the Couper Fund, which provides for the purchase of rare books for the college library."

"In one of the letters I received from Dick after he fell ill, he remarked that he was reading Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton."

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