COLVIN, C. Price

C. Price Colvin, a retired Arizona schoolteacher who was a well-known Baltimore tennis player more than half a century ago, died Nov. 29, 1991, of Alzheimer's disease in Sun City, Ariz. Mr. Colvin, who was 83 and a native of Baltimore, Maryland, had lived in Arizona since the early 1940s. He taught eighth-graders at the Andalusia School in the Phoenix area for nearly two decades before retiring in 1972. He worked earlier at the Sparrows Point mill of the Bethlehem Steel Corp. -- one of several jobs Mr. Colvin had during the Depression years. In Baltimore, he was a graduate of Mount St. Joseph High School and Loyola College, where he played on the basketball and tennis teams. He also was an original inductee of the Loyola Hall of Fame. Tennis was Mr. Colvin's main sport. He was a dominant figure on city courts in the 1920s and 1930s. He was the men's singles winner five years in a row -- from 1935 to 1939 -- in the municipal tournament sponsored by The Evening Sun, according to his son, Jonathan Colvin, a private investigator who lives in Glendale, Ariz. Mr. Colvin also is survived by his wife of 46 years, the former Ann Gustin; a brother, F. De Witt Colvin of Baltimore; and three grandchildren. A daughter, Tabitha Hensley, was killed along with her husband in a 1979 traffic accident. The family suggested memorial donations to the Alzheimer's Foundation. The Arizona Republic December 19, 1991