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Arlene Witmer



Arlene Witmer (’61 Arts and Letters) is a retired real estate broker. After graduation from Penn State, Arlene worked as a linguist, a cryptanalyst and a manager of Human Resources for the National Security Agency. She also served a tour as a legislative intern in the Brookings Institute Congressional Program.

She and her husband, John (’62 Arts and Letters) have endowed the Tara Leah Witmer Memorial Fund (at the Penn State College of Medicine), and the Arlene M and John H. Witmer, Jr. Scholarship in the College of Liberal Arts.

The Witmers reside in Old Lyme, CT and La Quinta, CA.