Arthur L. Whinston ’46 *47

The Navy’s V-12 program sent Art to Cornell to earn his civil engineering degree. Back at Princeton, he earned a master’s degree in civil engineering and then took a job designing aircraft wings at Republic Aviation. “But defense engineering is not a sound underpinning for a lifetime,” he wrote in our 50th-reunion yearbook, “so in 1953 I started NYU evening law school, continuing at Republic.”

In the 43 years he spent working at Klarquist/Sparkman, a patent law firm in Portland, Ore., Art managed accounts such as Tektronix and Nike while the office became Oregon’s largest intellectual-property firm. There he implemented an innovative health plan, encouraging employees to engage in better health and fitness.

A long-distance runner, Art participated in swimming, weight lifting, decathlon, and master’s track and field competitions. He and his wife, Melicent, set world-championship records in the World Association of Benchers and Deadlifters; in 2011, both were admitted to the association’s hall of fame.

Art served for many years as president of the Princeton Club of Oregon, organizing fundraisers and applicant interviews. At the time of his death Sept. 4, 2013, his survivors included Melicent; their children, Ann, James, Melicent ’77, Louise, and Patricia ’82; and four grandchildren. To them all, ’46 sends sympathy.