Arthur Stephen Lane ’34

Art Lane, retired v.p. and general counsel of Johnson & Johnson, the pharmaceutical firm in New Brunswick, N.J., and former District Court judge and chairman of the N.J. State Commission of Investigation, died at his home in Princeton Oct. 23, 1997. He was 86.

President of our class, captain of an undefeated football team, chairman of the Undergraduate Council, and winner of the Pyne Honor Prize, the university's highest undergraduate award, Art worked his way through Harvard Law School and began a distinguished career in the practice of law in New Jersey, from assistant Mercer County prosecutor to Mercer County judge. He was named by Pres. Eisenhower to the U.S. district court in 1960. He resigned in 1967 and went with J&J. In 1976 he joined a Princeton law firm as a partner and retired 20 years later.

He was a university trustee (1964-68), chairman of the Natl. Council on Crime and Delinquency (1976-82), and president of the George Washington Council, Boy Scouts of America (1946-50 and 1963-66), among other positions.

Surviving are his wife of 50 years, Sally Kuser Lane; seven children, Sally, Steve '72, Mark, Cathy, Henry '78, Mary, and Teresa '84; 12 grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. To them we offer our sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1934