Richard R. Sooley was born in Milford, Massachusetts. During World War II he enlisted in the United States Army Air Force and served overseas in the Marshall Islands. He was recall...ver maisRichard R. Sooley was born in Milford, Massachusetts. During World War II he enlisted in the United States Army Air Force and served overseas in the Marshall Islands. He was recalled during the Korean War with the Strategic Air Command as a Crewmember on a B-36 Bomber.
He received a Bachelor’s degree from Boston University and a Master’s degree from Northeastern University.
On New Year’s Eve 1948 he met Miriam Wiggins. They soon fell in love and were married in July. 1950.
While employed by the United States Government he served overseas. He liked to say that he spent a January in the sub-arctic (Labrador) and summers in the Arabian Desert, that he had travelled from the Mid- East to the Far East and from the tropical Islands of the Caribbean to the atolls of the central Pacific.
He retired in 1991and he and Miriam moved to Florida. While in Florida he did part time teaching. In 1999 he and Miriam moved to Georgia where he taught at the Reinhardt College. In 2006 he accepted his favorite job teaching elementary school children to play chess. Presently he remains at home and writes.ver menos