Arthur Drake Reeve Jr. ’35

Art died Mar. 19, 1999, at home in Rockville, Md. He was 86. He prepped at Newark Academy, was a history major at Princeton, and roomed with Jack Harlow in his junior and senior years. A member of Dial Lodge, he became v.p. of Whig-Clio and played an active role in its leadership with his lifelong friend Arthur Northwood Jr.

After graduation, a Spellman Fellowship in Housing took him to the Public Administration Clearing House at Chicago U., followed by service in the Office of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board's chairman. From 1938-40 he was executive secretary of the Natl. Peace Conference. At the outbreak of WWII, Art enlisted in the Signal Corps Reserve, went to England, and became part of Churchill's "Bodyguard of Lies" Operation, a unit charged with misleading Hitler on the site of the Allied plan to invade Europe. That mission successfully completed, he became a cryptographer with the Tactical Air Command, 9th Air Force.

After the war Art returned to New Jersey, took over his family's insurance business in Newark, and married Elizabeth "Betty" Smith on VJ-Day, Aug. 15, 1945. He became a respected, prominent citizen of South Orange, active in charitable, church, and civic groups. Betty survives him, as do their children, Margaret, John, and Thomas, two grandchildren, and a great-granddaughter. To all we express our deepest sympathy.

The Class of 1935