Edward Francis D'arms ’25 *36

IN THE DE&TH OF Chet D'Arms Mar. 3, 1991, the Class has lost another distinguished and respected member. He came to us from Mercersburg and was active in the Press Club, Policy Club, Philadelphian Society, Whig Hall, and was a member of Cloister Inn.

He graduated with high honors in classics, was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and won a Rhodes Scholarship. After obtaining his bachelor's and master's degrees at Oriel College and his doctorate at Princeton, he taught classics at Vassar, the universities of Minnesota and Colorado, and Princeton. He served as a major in WWII in France and Germany (Bronze Star), and after the war was chief of education and religious policy in the civil affairs division of the Army. From 1947 to 1957 he was assistant director of humanities in the Ford Foundation, moving to a similar position at the Rockefeller Foundation, from which he retired as program director in 1969.

His wife, the former Christine Cory, died in 1987. He is survived by three sons: John '56, Edward Jr., and Philip, and four grandchildren.

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