Arthur Emil Hess ’38

Arthur died Nov. 15, 2005, at his home in Charlottesville, Va.

He prepared for Princeton at Wyomissing (Pa.) High School, where he was class president. At Princeton he majored in public and international affairs and was vice president of Court Club. Illness forced him out of college in 1938, but he returned to graduate Phi Beta Kappa in 1939, winning the Lyman H. Atwater Prize in political science. In 1948 he earned a law degree at the University of Maryland.

Arthur had an outstanding career in executive positions in the Social Security Admin-

istration. In 1965, following the passage of Medicare, he became the first head of the program, as director of the Bureau of Health Insurance. He received the Arthur S. Fleming Award for outstanding federal service in 1955, and four years later the Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

After retirement from the government in 1974, Arthur served in many important public positions too numerous to list.

Arthur is survived by his second wife, Jane Linn; and by daughters Jean, Ann, and Eliza-

beth and seven grandchildren from his first marriage to Ann Smith, who died in 1979.

The class extends condolences to them all.

The Class of 1938