Proprietor, Richards/Texas Partners, The Woodlands, Texas (1990- ) Gulf Coast News Bureau Chief, Chemical Market Reporter,1990-2002, was Text Editor, OPD Chemical Buyers Directory through 2005.

BORN March 7, 1929 in Akron, Ohio.
EDUCATION: BA With Honors, Columbia College, Columbia University, 1951 MA Philosophy, Columbia University, 1953.
CAREER: Joined Schnell Publishing Company, New York, NY, publisher of Chemical Market Reporter (then Oil, Paint & Drug Reporter) in May, 1953, as departmental editor. Retired from Schnell March 31, 1990 as Assistant Publisher.

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE: Wrote and edited market sections and news. Began writing chemical market research articles in 1957 with monthly chemical commodity in-depth articles.
Began writing Chemical Profiles, a weekly feature in CMR in October, 1962. This feature was spun off as a book July 1, 1964. Became Market Research Editor in January, 1965. Was Managing Editor of Chemical Market Reporter from June, 1971 until January 1, 1974.
During this entire period and later, was intimately involved with all phases of newspaper production, both editorial and advertising, including special sections, for weekly tabloid paper, including liaison with printer; work in print shop; closing sections of paper; overseeing all aspects of press runs from publisher's standpoint.

EDITORIAL CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: During the editorial period of association with Schnell Publishing and afterwards:

• Helped to erect, supply and man a business development office for the US Department of Commerce Bureau of East-West Trade at the Leipzig, German Democratic Republic Fall Fair September 4-11, 1977, and was the US chemical industry expert during the fair.
  
• Delivered five lectures before American Coke & Coal Chemicals Institute on cyclohexane; phthalic anhydride; future prospects for six major organic chemicals; coal gasification and liquefaction and conventional coal-derived chemicals.
• Lectured before the Chemical Club of Philadelphia.
• Lectured before the Chemical Marketing & Economics Group of the American Chemical Society at its national meeting on future prospects for the chemical and related industries.
• Chaired round table discussion on World Petrochemicals at ACS 1974 national meeting.
• Was panelist and faculty member of an advanced marketing research course held by Chemical Marketing Research Association. Was member of CMRA for more than twenty years.
• As Chairman of the Library Committee of the Chemists' Club of New York, oversaw preservation and moving of 60 percent of the collection of the oldest and most noted chemical library collection - some 60,000 volumes - to the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry in Philadelphia, for safekeeping and assimilation.

PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE: Became assistant publisher of Schnell Publishing Company January 1, 1974.

• Worked extensively with subscription lists, fulfillment, express mail of distant subscriptions for timely newspaper.
• Conducted extensive reader surveys on subscription practices, seeking ways to improve distribution of timely newspaper.
• Worked in circulation promotional areas, seeking and purchasing target lists for selected mailings.
• Developed interests in phototypesetting and standalone computerized systems in the early seventies; participated in the computerization of the OPD Chemical Buyers Directory, an annual directory containing over 19,000 listings of chemicals and related materials and 1,700 suppliers.
• Helped develop a system including specifying and purchasing hardware, and working with a software specialist to write a custom application which combined editorial and advertising information in a single database - unique of its kind - in 1985-86. This enabled the company to bring its directory operation up to typesetting in- house.
• Pioneered in laser printer use for printing large-volume printouts using Convergent Technologies/Burroughs/Unisys equipment in 1986. Specified, ordered and purchased a DOS-based editorial computer system in 1987 for a magazine, including a server/work station, four networked work stations, a printer, an optical copy scanner, a modem and appropriate software. Cost:about $10,000, enabling the company to sharply reduce typesetting costs by about $7,000 per issue. System was up and running on the day of delivery. Became familiar with many software packages such as AB Dick Word Processor, Microsoft Multiplan and ADS software for Convergent Technologies/Burroughs/UniSys equipment, as well as WordPerfect 5 and 5.1, dBXL, Multiplan and XyWrite 3.3 on DOS equipment. Devised a spreadsheet system for operating a weekly price index for the tabloid paper; set up formats for computer use throughout the company using WordPerfect 5 and 5.1; Multiplan; XyWrite and other software.
• Specified, ordered and purchased office DOS work stations, networks, dot-matrix and laser printers and appropriate software in the late eighties for editorial, advertising and subscription applications.
• Negotiated sales/service contracts on computers and peripherals. Since 1974, invited bids and purchased front end/printing services from printers for a tabloid weekly newspaper, an annual directory and a monthly magazine.
• Did business directly with more than a dozen publication printers and purchased paper from mills and dealers to fill needs for print orders.

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT: Member 1986-87 of Association of Business Publishers (ABP) Computerization Committee.