Arthur Bryant Whitcomb ’46

A. B. died Mar. 8, 2003, at home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., with his beloved Meg holding his hand.

Arriving from Choate, he roomed with Bud Scott, Herman Froeb, Ben Britt, and Meatball Shannon. Duty with the Air Corps was cut short by a bad lung, so he returned to Princeton, rooming with Don O'Connor, Bill Litchfield, Dixie Walker, and Bill Baird.

A. B. was on the lacrosse team, an Ivy Club member, and cochairman of the class memorial insurance committee. In later years he was '46's treasurer and vice president. His career in advertising sales included being US advertising director of the International Herald Tribune, advertising director of Life Int'l., and vice president and advertising director of Vision, an international Spanish language business magazine.

Choate's yearbook has "one-liners" over pictures of the graduating class. A. B.'s was "A giving heart deserves fair praise." This is engraved on his tombstone. Add a boundless love of life and of people and one only touches on why A. B.'s friends were legion. To A. B.'s children, Michael, Lindsay, Bruce, Mary, Glenny, and Arthur Jr., and to Meg, the class extends its heartfelt sympathy.

The Class of 1946