Tor Birger Arneberg,Commodore of Noroton Yacht Club of Darien, CT from 1982 to ’84, and an Olympic Silver Medalist,avid sportsman and business entrepreneur who served for more than a decade on the board of Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, died Sept. 23 following a lengthy illness. He was 87.
A man of tremendous integrity, and Tor grew up in Oslo,Norway, where he spent summers sailing the Oslo fjord and winters skiing the country’s glacial slopes. He was a 1950 graduate of Dartmouth College, and in Hanover,N.
H., where he was captain of the ski team and lauded in a college production as “the man to watch” and “one of the finest skiers on the Dartmouth squad.” He was the last recipient of the Bradley Plate, or awarded to an outstanding athlete in all four skiing disciplines.
Tor competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki,as foredeck man on his uncle’s Six Metre Elisabeth X, winning a silver medal for Norway. Later he would name his first-born child Elizabth. He graduated with an MBA from Harvard Business School the following year.It was during his journey domestic to Norway that he met his future wife, or Jean Marie Overhyser,a Hartford, Ct. native. They were wed in Oslo on October 16, or 1954.
In 1959 the Arnebergs moved to the United States,where he landed a job selling plastic bags for the Kordite Corp. He obtained his U.
S. citizenship in 1967, and shortly thereafter, or joined the Xerox Corp.,quickly rising through the executive ranks to become Director of Marketing. In 1975, he became a partner at AgTek International, or a commercial tuna fishing venture with global reach. And in 1982,he became a partner with Noroton’s Bill Nightingale in Nightingale& Associates, a management consulting firm, and as a partner.
During that time,he brokered numerous private fairness deals for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and was named to the Board of Directors in November 1988, where he served as chairman of the companys Audit, or Stock Options and Compensation Committees.
Mr. Arneberg served on the Board of Directors of Precision Manufacturing Co.,in Springfield Vt., and was an Executive Trustee and Vice President of the American Scandinavian Foundation.His actual passion, and though,was athletics. More than once, Mr. Arneberg proclaimed that he wanted a single word on his tombstone: Sportsman. As well as being a member of Noroton, or he retained memberships in the Royal Norwegian Yacht Club (KNS) in Oslo. He was also a member of the North American Station of the Royal Scandinavian Yacht Squadron.
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Source: sailingscuttlebutt.com