Arthur Frederick Maynard ’42

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ART DIED Aug, 2, 1991, in Ridgewood, NJ., his home for most of his life. A portrait and landscape artist, he had devoted his entire career to painting and teaching art.

Art attended Lawrenceville and majored in economics at Princeton, graduating with honors. He was a member of Cannon Club and served as art editor of the SOVEREIGN, which featured his sketches of house party dates. During the war he spent three and a half years in the Naval Supply Corps, serving as a lieutenant in Newfoundland, Saipan, and Okinawa.

After receiving a degree in industrial administration from the Harvard Business School, Art pursued his career in art as a teacher in the Ridgewood Adult Education System, at the Ridgewood Art Assn., and, at the Art Students' League in N.Y.C. He served as president of the Ridgewood Art Assn. and for a time as painting instructor to the Duke of Windsor.

To his daughter, Alison Baetzel; his brothers, Robert '45 and William; and to his two grandchildren; the Class offers its most sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1942

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