Richard B. Heyman
With sadness, we report the death on August 13 of former Columbia Band tuba player and head manager Richard B. Heyman CC ’69. After his band career, Dick earned his medical degree at Columbia and went on to be a longtime pediatrician in Cincinnati and its suburban areas. He mostly retired to Hilton Head, South Carolina, only withdrawing fully from his medical practice when he became ill this past June. In Hilton Head, he enjoyed zip lining with his grandchildren, and also served on the Board of Directors of the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra.
His former colleagues at Suburban Pediatric Associates paid tribute to him on the medical group’s Facebook page, noting some of his very Band-like qualities:
…There are so many things that we will miss at SPA about Dr. Heyman. For the past 36 years he graced us with his wisdom, his humor, his songs, his limericks, his pranks, and especially his wonderful hugs.
The full obituary, published in The Island Packet, can be found here.
As a remembrance, we would like to share this picture of Dick from the archives, taken at the King’s Crown Activities Fair in 1968. In it, he wears the infamous “raccoon coat” — in the band of the 1960s, it was typically worn by the head manager.
Richard Heyman in the raccoon coat, 1968.
