Richard Sidney Beal Jr., passed away on January 29, 2015. In 1947 he began teaching at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. In 1948, he took a teaching position at the San Francisco Baptist College, and began work on a Ph.D. degree at the University of California in entomology. On completing his doctorate, he became a professor of systematic theology at Denver Seminary. In 1956, he was invited to work as a research entomologist for the Department of Agriculture with assignment to the Smithsonian Institution, where he worked until 1958. He then became a professor of zoology at ASU. In 1962, he was transferred to Northern Arizona University. In 1965, he became Dean of the Graduate College and Research, a position he held until his retirement from NAU in 1983. His wife, Billie, passed away in 1986. In 1987 he married Evorine Brewer. They moved to Lakewood, Colorado, where both were on the faculty of Colorado Christian University until their retirements in 1994. They moved to Prescott, Arizona, and then to East Wenatchee, Washington, in 2011. Dick published several articles in scientific journals, and coauthored four books. In addition to his first wife, he was preceded in death by a son, two brothers and a sister. He leaves a sister, a son, his wife Evorine, three stepchildren, nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Memorial services will be at 11 a.m., March 21, 2015, at Eastmont Baptist Church in East Wenatchee. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in Dick's memory to the Eastmont Baptist Church's Hispanic ministry, 400 S. Kentucky Ave., East Wenatchee, WA 98802. (Source: ASU Foundation)