Person:Arthur Sweeny (1)

"SWEENY-Arthur Jr. On March 15, 2001, in Stamford Ct, age 94. Formerly of Pleasantville, N.Y., he was born in New York City, January 6, 1907, son of Arthur Sweeny and Elizabeth Ann Marshall. He was schooled at the Horace Mann School, '24, Harvard College, '28, and Columbia University, '32. He was a Professor of Organic Chemistry at Hunter College for 30 years and at Lehman College for 14 years, where upon his retirement, he was named Professor Emeritus and an annual lecture series was endowed in his honor. He also served Grand Marshall of both Hunter and Lehman Colleges."

Lehman College has a scholarship/lecture series named in his honor and provides the following biography: "For almost twenty-five years Arthur Sweeny directed the Undergraduate Cancer Research Program at the College. Affiliations developed with the Sloan-Kettering Research Institute, as well as with the New York University College of Medicine. These two institutions served as the testing laboratories for the potential anti-tumor agents developed and synthesized in Professor Sweeny's laboratory. Numerous publications resulted from the research project. Financial support for this program came from sources within as well as outside the University. The highlight of the Program, however, may well have been the undergraduate chemistry majors who participated. These students are legion, and today include teachers, physicians and chemists at all degree levels. These people, to this day, remember Professor Sweeny with fondness and respect, and remain loyal to the Department and the College."