Arthur R. Lewis ’36

Arthur died March 8, 2005, in White Plains, N.Y.

A graduate of Poly Prep in Brooklyn, he majored in economics at Princeton, played polo and was president of Gateway Club. His first job after college was with the New York Department of Labor. During World War II he served a year as a cryptographer on Christmas Island in the Pacific. After the war he started his own business, producing women's attire for several years during which he acquired some knitting-machine patents. In the early 1970s he had a factory in Antigua in the West Indies making the same items.

After retiring from his businesses, while living in White Plains, he was a consultant to the Small Business Administration, helping people start their own companies. For many years, Arthur was a member of the Beach Point Tennis and Yacht Club in Mamaroneck, N.Y., where he was an avid competitive sailor.

He married Muriel Zinn in 1939. She died in 1997. His son, A.R. Lewis Jr., died in 1999. Arthur is survived by a daughter, Joan Anders; her husband, Howard; their two sons; and a great-granddaughter.

The Class of 1936