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During his career as an electrical engineer and inventor,
Arthur obtained many patents in the field of infrared optics and
aircraft navigation. In Greenwich Village, NY, he continues to be a
community leader, now serving his eighteenth year on the Manhattan
Borough President’s Local Community Board (four years as its Chair).
Arthur led fights to defeat two major highways, which would have
destroyed the Village. He championed designation of Greenwich Village as
an historic district with a creative zoning overlay, which made possible
the establishment of Westbeth and West Village Houses, two models of
community advocacy today filled with artists and middle-income families.
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Arthur is a serious city gardener who composts with red
wiggler worms and is visited annually, for a conservation lesson, by
local nursery school children (a tradition begun when his granddaughter
was four), for which he was awarded a composters’ pin by Organic
Gardening Magazine. A dedicated angler, Arthur is active in Trout
Unlimited and is a member of the Board of Theodore
Gordon Flyfishers, organizations which focus on stream conservation
and management. He is a founding Board member of the Catskill
Flyfishing Center & Museum. Arthur is a cruciverbalist, whose
fishing-theme crossword puzzles have appeared in TGF’s quarterly
publication, The Quill. His most recent puzzle appeared in the New York
Times. As head of Product Development for Fly Tyer’s Carry-All, Arthur
continues to create patented designs of ingenious and useful items for
fly fishers. Arthur is the Director of TGF’s Trout
In The Classroom program.
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