www.DelcoBar.org he attended a Cherry Blossom Festival and Arch, an erstwhile photographer, photographed the floats and pretty girls including one of Janice Marie Kendrick, “Miss Ohio,” then age 16, as she floated down Pennsylvania Avenue. Arch had always been a singer since choirboy days at Trinity Episcopal Church in Swarthmore and Glee Club in Syracuse so he was chosen for the Traveling Troubadours at GWU led by a DC Obstetrician, Robert Howe Harmon, MD, and his wife. Arch was in a quartet in that group and during Christmas break, when the group’s soprano was hospitalized with appendicitis, Jan was called in to join the group as it flew C-54 troop carriers to Bangor, Maine, Greenland and beyond to entertain the troops. As Miss Ohio went, so went Bill Archbold thereafter. His now fiancé Jan particularly enjoyed attending the GWULS mock-trial finals in which Arch defeated a young fellow from Scranton, Pennsylvania named Robert Casey shortly before graduating in the Spring of 1955. Arch
and the future Governor maintained a cordial relationship through both of their lives. Arch’s pride and love for his wife Janice were always present particularly his admiration for Janice as she, in her true “captain of industry mode,” went on to form Anthurium Solutions, Inc., a technology solutions company which has successfully asserted many patents in various US Courts. And of course Archie “glowed” with the successful careers of his two daughters. For over 120 years Arch’s extended family owned a cottage on Lake Keuka in the finger lakes of New York. Arch, Jan and daughters spent a good part of the summer in their lakefront Circa 1880’s cottage. Arch just loved running his classic 1930’s Chris Craft mahogany speedboats around the lake or racing his cousin, Curtis Brayer, a Miami Yachtsman and renowned boat racer. And Arch loved to water ski. It was probably because of this “water sign,” that when his law partner Joe O’Brien asked Arch in 1974
if he wanted to “buy in” for a share of a thirty foot sailboat being purchased from a Federal Judge in Delaware, Arch said, “put me down for a third.” Over the ensuing sixteen years the intrepid sailors Archbold, O’Brien and Oral Surgeon Dr. Michael Ryan managed to own six sailboats culminating in a sixty-five foot sailboat which frankly was not a one person operated boat, not that it was not tried. Archie would often fly in to join the crew where they would do a typical trip of one partner taking the boat to Block Island and Newport, Rhode Island, and another partner, Archbold, taking the boat to Martha’s Vineyard and returning it to Norwalk, Connecticut, and the third partner, Dr. Michael Ryan, bringing the boat back south past Atlantic City up through the C&D Canal to the Chesapeake and its regular berth in the Great Oak Marina on Fairlee Creek. After passing both the District of Columbia Bar and the Pennsylvania Bar in June 1955, he learned of his acceptance by telegram from his fiancé, Jan, while continued on page 10
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