ARTHUR F. WELD JR. ’37

ARTHUR F. WELD JR., a retired professor at Michigan State University, died Dec. 1, 2002. He was 87. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, he received his degree with high honors and high distinction in Romance languages. He received a master’s degree from Princeton University. A member of Alpha Chi Rho, he served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He was the brother of the late Richard P. Weld ’39 and the uncle of the late Ralph F. Weld of the class of 1913. After teaching at Syracuse University, where he established the first university-operated on-air television studio, he later became a professor at Michigan State, where he taught film history and radio and television production in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences. He also had served on the board of directors of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters. His wife, Bettina Frohlich Weld, survives.