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Obituary Richard Egan, the colourful and vigorous co-founder of EMC, went into a linen cupboard of his home at the Four Seasons condominiums on Boylston Street, Boston, and shot himself in the head with a shotgun on Friday, ending his fight against terminal lung cancer.
Egan had an amazing life, encompassing involvement in the Apollo space programme, the US Marines, starting and building the most successful storage company on the planet, and becoming the US ambassador to Ireland. Finally, aged 73 and facing a lingering death, he ended the battle decisively and on his terms. He was never a shrinking violet.
Richard (Dick) Egan was born in Milton, Massachusetts in 1936, grew up in Dorchester, He has been described as a hardscrabble street kid.
US Marines
On graduating Boston Technical High School in 1953, he joined the US Marine Corps reserves aged 17, just before the end of the Korean War. He became a helicopter pilot.
Dick Egan, 1936-2009
Three months after being assigned to active duty he was court-martialled for being absent without leave, and sentenced to forfeit pay an
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An American businessman, political fundraiser and former US Ambassador to Ireland, he was born in Milton, Massachusetts. His family moved to Dorchester and he attended public schools in Boston. He served in the Marine Corps for two years during the end of the Korean War. He then entered Northeastern University and graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. Northeastern's Egan Engineering and Science Research Center was later named in his honor. He earned a Master of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and later joined MIT's Draper Laboratory as part of the team that developed the Apollo Guidance Computer, which provided real-time control for the Apollo spacecraft that carried astronauts to the moon. He also worked with Lockheed Aircraft and Intel Corp. in developing technology. He and his friend and college roommate, Roger Marino co-founded EMC Corporation in 1979. The two initially sold office furniture in order to raise money to build the company with only a handful of employees. EMC eventually became
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