Arthur W. Brown ’40

Art died Oct. 28, 2012, at Indian River Estates Medical Center in Vero Beach, Fla.

He prepared at Cranford (N.J.) High School and majored in mathematics at Princeton, graduating with high honors and election to Phi Beta Kappa. He was the winner of the George B. Covington Prize in Mathematics and the Andrew H. Brown Prize Scholarship in Mathematics.

Art was editor of the Bric-a-Brac and a member of Key and Seal. He served for three years on the executive council of Whig-Clio and was its treasurer senior year.

During World War II, he worked in Army/Navy intelligence.

Thereafter, he was manager of employee relations for Exxon until his retirement in 1971. He was president of the Westfield (N.J.) Presbyterian Church and later worked on the board of pensions for the Presbyterian Church in Vero Beach.

Our Class of 1940 yearbook also lists the work Art volunteered for at Princeton.

Art’s survivors include his daughters, Joy Ann Brown Baird and Cynthia Brown Brady; eight grandchildren; and 25 great-grandchildren. To them all, his classmates offer their sincere sympathies.