Longtime Finch Paper Chairman Richard J. Carota Dies at 73

In 2007, Mr. Carota guided Finch Pruyn & Co., Inc., through the sale of the business by its local owners to the partnership of Atlas Holdings LLC and Blue Wolf Capital Management LLC.

Born on June 5, 1937, at Glens Falls Hospital, Mr. Carota was the eldest of three children of Gladys and Patrick Carota of Hudson Falls, NY. He graduated from Hudson Falls Senior High School in 1954 at the age of 17, and in 1955 entered Miami University in Coral Gables, Fla., as a pre-med student.