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Dr. Arthur J. Bellinzoni, Jr. ’53
Arthur entered Poly in the fall of 1949 and received the Joseph Dana Allen Award at graduation in 1953. At Princeton, Arthur was a pre-med student, but changed his major, and graduated in 1957 as a religion major and went to Harvard to earn a PhD in History and Philosophy of Religion with a concentration in early Christianity.
Arthur went on to teach religion at Wells College in Aurora, NY for 38 years (1962 to 2000) and also served concurrently as Director of Planned and Leadership Giving for the last 17 of those years. After retirement, Arthur continued to serve as Special Assistant to the President for Strategic Initiatives for six years; then for six years on the Wells Board of Trustees, and as Chair of the Planned Giving Advisory Committee. He now serves as an Honorary Trustee.
Arthur’s 60+ years of volunteer service in Aurora included three years as a Boy Scouts scoutmaster; the Board of Directors of the United Way of Cayuga County; Charter Member and Chair of the Board of Cayuga Community College Foundation, where he initiated an annual giving program; Chair of the Planned and Leadership Giving Committee of the Cayuga Community Hospital; 12 years on the Board of Directors of the Rothko Chapel in Houston; and, since 1996, on the Board of People For the American Way in Washington DC.
Arthur has written, edited, or translated 10 books and multiple articles in religion, including four books written since retirement.
Arthur has played tennis and golf, but his greatest hobby has been to travel, visiting 48 states and 108 countries. Perhaps most happily, for the last 23 plus years Arthur has shared almost everything with his partner Dimitrios Dimopoulos.
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