Education
Mr. James graduated from Westtown School, a Quaker boarding school located in Chester County, PA, in 1935. He graduated in 1939 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University. In 1943, Richard James was a naval engineer trying to develop a meter designed to monitor horsepower on naval battleships.
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