Born in South River, Mr. Kamin was an immigrant baker's son who rose to become president and editor of the Daily and Sunday Register of Shrewsbury.
Arthur Z. Kamin RED BANK - Longtime journalist Arthur Z. Kamin, who served on the Rutgers University board of trustees for more than two decades, died Tuesday at his home in Red Bank. He was 84.
Born in South River, Mr. Kamin was an immigrant baker's son who rose to become president and editor of the Daily and Sunday Register of Shrewsbury.
Mr. Kamin was editor of The Register from 1965 to the mid-1980s. At Rutgers College, from which he graduated in 1954, Mr. Kamin served as editor-in-chief of the campus newspaper, The Daily Targum.
From 1971 to 1993, he served as chairman of the Rutgers University board of trustees, according to his son, Blair Kamin.
Survivors include his wife, Virginia P. Kamin; his son, Blair, of Wilmette, Ill.; a daughter, Brooke Kamin Rapaport, of New York; five grandsons; and a sister, Ceil Rubin of Long Island, N.Y.
Memorial services will be private. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Fair Haven First Aid Squad and the Arthur Z. and Virginia P. Kamin Fund for Journalism Innovation at Harvard, care of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. The John E. Day Funeral Home in Red Bank is handling arrangements.
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