Born in Baltimore, Alexander was a grandson of Howard Atwood Kelly, one of the four founding physicians of Johns Hopkins Hospital. He attended Baltimore’s Gilman School, then South Kent School in Connecticut, followed by the Stony Brook (N.Y.) School.

We know little about Alexander’s life and work beyond his service in the Army in Italy, southern France, and Germany from 1943 to 1945. Apparently, aside from education and military service, he spent his time and energy in Baltimore.

At the time of his death there June 1, 2013, he was survived by his wife of 59 years, Terry Adams Kelly; children Margaret, A. Preston, Ridgely, and Terry; 10 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. To them all, ’46 sends its sympathy and the warm wish that we had known this classmate better throughout his long lifetime.

Undergraduate Class of 1946