Arthur P. Morgan ’44

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With his family present, Art died Jan. 30, 2015, at his Princeton home.

A lifelong Princeton resident, he entered Princeton after graduating from Deerfield Academy. His roommates included Bill Zinsser, Bob Hack, Bob Holliday, Jim Drorbaugh, and Jack Sinclair. Art took his meals at Cap and Gown.

Art graduated from Princeton in 1946. While training as an Air Corps bombardier in Oklahoma City, he met and married Millie Underwood in 1947. She died in 1984.

Art first worked for E.R. Squibb, then for Empire Trust in New York City. In Princeton he joined Tucker Anthony, then Clark Dodge, and finally Princeton Bank and Trust, from which he retired in 1985.

Art served as chairman of the Princeton Borough zoning board and on the Princeton Borough Council, and as police commissioner. He was on the boards of Princeton Savings & Loan, Springdale Golf Club, Pretty Brook Tennis Club, Princeton Public Library, McCarter Theatre, and Westminster College Choir. He was a deacon of Nassau Presbyterian Church.

He married Barbara MacLeod in 1985. They spent summers in Vermont and Prince Edward Island.

Art is survived by Barbara; daughters Anne, Catherine, and Cynthia; stepdaughters Robin and Jennifer; 12 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; his brother, Richard ’48; and sister Diana. He was predeceased by his sister, Eleanor.

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