王钟瑶婚礼视频曝光

Obituaries

Recent Obituaries
In Memoriam Archive

Arthur Van Gelder ’38

Arthur Van Gelder ’38, in Costa Rica, where he had settled in retirement. After graduating from Reed, he worked as a news commentator in California for a year. He was conscripted by the Netherlands Indies Army to fight in World War II and was a Japanese prisoner of war from 1942 to 1944. He was honorably discharged in 1946. For most of his career, he worked as a chemical engineer, doing research and development for food processing companies in Java, India, and California. In 1976, he became executive vice president of research and development for Bio-Processes in Ojai, California. (SSDI has a date for March 24, 1992; with last benefit in Florida.)

Appeared in Reed magazine: August 1994