Richard Charles Dahl, 85, professor emeritus of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at ASU and its founding librarian, died April 16, 2007. He majored in philosophy at University of California (Berkeley), then attended the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration for one semester before enlisting and serving in France during WWII. After the war, while on a bicycle tour of England, he met his first wife, Grace, and her three-year-old son, Barry. Together, the couple had a son, Kevin. Richard earned his Bachelor of Library Science from UC Berkeley School of Librarianship (1951), and a J.D. from Catholic University (1958). He served as the law librarian for the University of California, the University of Nebraska, the Office of the Judge Advocate General for the Navy, and Washington State. He also was Civil Division Librarian for the Department of Justice and the U.S. Treasury Department's librarian. In 1966, Richard was recruited by Willard Pedrick, dean of the ASU College of Law, and was one of the school's founding faculty. He amassed the 60,000 volumes needed for accreditation and also taught legal research, ethics and government. After retiring, Richard earned a master's degree in history at ASU. Richard's wife, Grace, died in 1976. After a brief second marriage, Richard married Jeannine Dunwell, a psychiatric nursing professor at ASU. Richard is survived by his wife, Jeannine, two sons, two step­daughters, seven grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.