Background
Geldard, Richard Gordon was born on April 27, 1935 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Walter James Geldard and Maude Evelyn Scott.
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Geldard, Richard Gordon was born on April 27, 1935 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Walter James Geldard and Maude Evelyn Scott.
Bachelor, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, 1957. Master of Arts, Middlebury College, Vermont, 1968. Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, California, 1972.
Staff department English, head of drama The Taft School, Watertown, Connecticut, 1963—1968. Head of upper school Chadwick School, Palos Verdes, California, 1974—1979. Head, upper school Collegiate School, New York, New York, 1979—1989.
Professor of philosophy Yeshiva University, New York, New York, 1992—1999. 1st lieutenant United States Army, 1957-1959, Fort Knox, Kentucky.
Board directors World Sound Foundation, Accord, since 2007. Member Friends of the Shawangunks, since 2005. Member of The Emerson Society (associate).
Married Astrid Martha Hurlimann. Children: Cynthia Scott, Sally Ann, Kent Christian Fitzgerald, Jennifer Scott.