Richard W. Day (educator), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 14-Aug-1916
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: 03-Jul-1978
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Richard W. Day (educator)
- Richard Ward Day (August 14, 1916 – July 3, 1978) was an American educator and the 10th principal of Phillips Exeter Academy. Richard W.
- Day was born in Boston, Massachusetts on August 14, 1916 to Hilbert Francis Day and Elizabeth V.
- H.
- Richards.
- He attended Shady Hill School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Belmont Hill School in Belmont, Massachusetts, and was educated at Yale University, where he graduated in 1938.
- During World War II, Day was inducted into the U.S.
- Army in March 1942 and was commissioned in November; he served for a time in the S2 section of the 515th Parachute Infantry Regiment and was assigned as an aide-de-camp to General Gaither in December 1943.
- He was promoted to major and served with 101st Airborne Division in the Pacific theater as a paratrooper.
- After the war, he attended Harvard University, where he earned his doctorate in 1950.
- From 1964–1973, he served as the principal at Exeter.
- He was appointed in 1963; however, due to other commitments he was unable to assume his position until the following year.
- William Earnest Gillespie instead served as interim principal.
- Under him, the Class of 1945 Library, designed by Louis Kahn, was commissioned and built.
- The academy also became coeducational under Day in 1970.
- Following his time at Exeter, he served as the principal of Montclair Kimberley Academy.
- Across his life, he had taught at several institutions, including Germantown Academy, Choate Rosemary Hall, and St.
- Paul's School in New Hampshire.
- He also was a trustee of the College Entrance Examination Board, Saddle River Country Day School and Mount Saint Dominic Academy.He was married to Katharine MacAusland, with whom he had two sons, Richard W.
- Day Jr.
- and Andrew MacA.
- Day, and a daughter, Lydia Day Hart.
- He died on July 3, 1978, at the age of 61, in Montclair, New Jersey, and was buried in Mayflower Cemetery in Duxbury, Massachusetts.
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