Richards A. Rowland, a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America, was bom on December 20, 1910, in Richmond, Virginia, to Henry Richards and Alma Rowland. Dick attended schools in Richmond, Virginia, graduating from high school in 1928. He went to college at the University of Cincinnati, graduating in 1932 with a degree in chemical engineering. In 1934 he received a master of science degree in engineering geology from the University of Cincinnati. Dick continued his graduate work at Cornell University where he received his Ph.D. in geology in 1938. His doctoral thesis title was “Petrofabric analysis of cleavage in otherwise unmetamorphosed sediments.”

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