Arthur W. Mudge II ’51

Art was born July 15, 1929, in Andover, Mass., to Alice Tatler and William F. Mudge 1917. He prepared at Choate and majored in geological engineering at Princeton. Art belonged to Charter and played hockey and lacrosse. He roomed with Wells Eighmy, Cal Rand, and George Shafer.

He served for two years in the Army Corps of Engineers after graduation. Art and Mary Ann Cadwell were married in 1953; three years later, Art earned a law degree from Harvard. He practiced law in New Hampshire for 10 years, where he was a partner in Sulloway Hollis & Soden in Concord.

Art joined the Agency for International Development in 1966, becoming a regional legal adviser in Central America. He was based in Panama. He went on to become assistant mission director in Bolivia and Peru, and director in Guyana, Nicaragua, and Sudan. In 1979, he was invited to serve as a fellow at the Harvard Center for International Affairs. In 1984, Art resumed law practice with the Sulloway firm.

He died May 23, 2014. He is survived by Mary Ann; their daughters, Rebecca, Susanna, Sarah, and Kathryn; five grandchildren; and his sister, Nancy Sycamore. His brothers, William and John, predeceased him.