Richard B. Arnaud ’67 AM, ’69 PhD

Richard B. Arnaud ’67 AM, ’69 PhD, of Concord, Mass.; June 28. After graduating from the University of Rochester, he attended Brown and met his future wife while working in the Brown Bookstore. Following Brown, he taught at the University of Minnesota. After returning to Massachusetts to teach at Wheaton College, he left academia for software engineering and worked on new and emerging technologies at Digital Equipment Corp., Polaroid, and Fidelity. An unexpected offer from the Suez Canal Authority to work on the LORAN tracking system in Ismailia, Egypt, gave him the opportunity to share his enthusiasm for travel and for learning about other cultures and languages with his family. After his retirement, he used his technical skills to support nonprofits and focused his free time on local and national political campaigns. He was an avid cyclist. He is survived by his wife, Joanne Appleton Arnaud ’73 PhD; a daughter; a son; a sister-in-law; a brother-in-law; and two nephews.