Harold Isaac Arnoldy ’50

Harold Isaac Arnoldy ’50 died on June 2, 2004, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Born on December 31, 1925, in Boston, he prepared for college at Dorchester (MA) High School and during World War II served in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1944 to 1946, attaining the rank of staff sergeant and receiving the Air Medal. After the war, he attended Cambridge (MA) Junior College, from which he was graduated in 1948. In 1948, he entered Bowdoin and became a member of Alpha Rho Upsilon Fraternity. Following his graduation in 1950, he was the New York buyer and market representative for William Filene’s Company of Boston, and, in 1955, he joined Owens-Corning Fiberglass as a regional representative of the Textile Fabrics Division in New York. He was also a group head at Weat, Weir and Bartel Advertising Agency before joining U.S. Plywood in New York City in 1965 as advertising manager. He was promoted to director of advertising and promotion in 1968.