About Richard Morris
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Richard Morris was born on August 16, 1943 in Pittsburgh, to a steel family, and lived in a suburb of Cleveland.
He graduated from Haverford College in Philadelphia in 1965 with a BA in Sociology. While studying Medical Sociology at Case-Western Reserve University graduate school in Cleveland, he participated in Carl Stokes' first campaign for mayor of Cleveland and sang in the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus.
He supported the Vietnam War, and eventually dropped out of graduate school, enlisted, attended Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia, and became a second lieutenant rifle platoon leader in the First Cavalry Division (Airmobile) in Vietnam. His tour was 1967-1968.
After Vietnam he went to graduate school at Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and spent thirty years designing and building affordable solar homes, doing housing research, writing articles, speeches, and guidebooks for builders, and advocating cost-effective, affordable housing in building codes and standards.
Richard Morris writes in Bowie, Maryland, where he lives with his wife and enjoys his three children and two grandchildren. His hobby is singing. He wrote twenty-five songs in Vietnam, which can be found at www.vietwarsongs.com.http://music.download.com/richardmorris/3600-8976_32-100913981.html?tag=MDL_listing_song_artist
Contact Morris at cologneno10forme@cs.com