Excerpt from Lehigh Alumni Bulletin, Vol. 23: October, 1935

In the thirteen years that you have been president of Lehigh, you have endeared yourself to us, your associates, and to the students, faculty and alumni of the university to a degree that rivals, yet supplements, our love for Lehigh. Our affection for you is the more enduring because it has grown upon us, not by design, but as a by-product of your sterling char acter, your devotion to high ideals, your indomitable courage, your ih spiring vision, your plain-spoken fairness, and the remarkable r'esults you have achieved by applying good engineering thinking to Lehigh-'s problems - academic, financial and administrative.

We recognize, Dr. Richards, that from the time you first studied Lehigh's needs in 1923, and conceived your program for her future growth and development, our aims for the University have been higher than any to which we had previously aspired. For thirteen years you have shown us that persistent striving toward a. Lofty objective makes dreams come true. The standards that you have set and the goals you have envisioned for us will assert themselves with ever growing insistency, long after we are gone.

You have fostered research, attracted men of scholarly attainments to our faculty, modernized and greatly enlarged the physical facilities of the University, reorganized for more efficient operation practically every aca demic and administrative department, and conserved so carefully our re sources that the University has weathered a devastating economic storm without curtailing its effectiveness and without incurring, at any time, an operating deficit. We recognize the good fortune that has been ours in having had, as a leader during these trying years, a man who combines, in the highest degree, proficiency in engineering, education, administration and financial management.

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