Archibald Coleman Rogers ’39 *42

When Archie died Dec. 6, 2001, of complications from a stroke, we lost a distinguished classmate who was an outstanding member of the architectural profession, having played a key role in the development of Baltimore's famous Charles Center and Inner Harbor. In 1973 he was named president of the American Institute of Architects. After WWII service as a naval architect, he opened a small office in his grandmother's Annapolis home. By 1961 he had three partners in a firm named RTKL employing 900 worldwide. He headed Baltimore's Urban Design Concept Team on which he fought to prevent highways from ruining aesthetics and neighborhoods. He served Princeton on its architectural advisory council and as trustee of the Graduate College. A voracious reader, he also wrote three novels.

In retirement he and Merry, his wife of 17 years, lived first at his childhood home, Belvoir, a 17th-century plantation where they entertained one of our class trips, and then at Bolton Hill, Merry's childhood home. Archie enjoyed this unusual domestic first. To Merry, son Coleman, daughter Lucia, brother Samuel '40, sister Margaret Anne, and two grandsons we extend our sympathy.

The Class of 1939