Arthur died Aug. 8, 2016, from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Born in Corry, Pa., he majored in English at Princeton and was in the American Civilization program. He was active in many sports and committees and was a member of Tiger Inn. Art was voted president of the senior class and broke his jaw in a football game against Yale.
Upon graduation, he entered the seminary at St. Bonaventure and earned a master’s degree from Wesleyan University. He taught Latin at the Landon School outside Washington, D.C., where he met his wife, Deirdre. They moved to Baton Rouge, La., and he pursued his doctorate in English. They went on to raise six children.
Art became a professor at Buffalo State College for the next 17 years. In 1967, he was awarded a Fulbright grant to teach Shakespeare at the University of Jordan, Amman, where he lived for a year. He gave up his tenured professorship in 1979 and moved to Bunkie, La., where he worked for five years as assistant principal at St. Anthony’s Elementary School. In 1985, he became principal of the Pretty Eagle Catholic School in St. Xavier on the Crow reservation in Montana.
After his diagnosis of lymphoma, he moved to Westpark Village in Billings, Mont., where he worked as a Eucharistic minister.
Arthur was predeceased by his wife of 57 years, Deirdre. He is survived by his children, Anne, Mary Elizabeth, Jonathan, Monica, Timothy, and Daniel; 13 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. The class extends condolences to them.