Alexander B. Hawes ’27

Alec Hawes died July 31, 1995, at his summer home in Little Compton, R.I. His permanent home was in Washington, D.C.

Alec came to us from Tabor Academy and Roxbury Latin Schools. At Princeton he won the War Memorial Prize Scholarship and was a member of Whig Hall. He left Princeton in June 1925 to work with the Harvard Expedition in Egypt; he then transferred to Harvard, from which he graduated in 1928. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1931.

Alec considered himself a Harvard man and took no part in Princeton activities after 1925.

The following notes are taken from his obituary in the N.Y. Times of Aug. 2: "He served on Franklin Roosevelt's Federal Trade Commission and National Labor Relations Board, resigning from the latter in 1948. In 1944, as a staff member of the U.N.'s rehabilitation and relief agency, he negotiated relief agreements with Italy. After WWII, he practiced law with the firm of Fowler, Leva, Hawes & Symington in Washington, D.C., and served as general counsel for CARE for many years."

His first wife, Elizabeth, died in 1975. He is survived by his second wife, Rosalie; four children; 10 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. To them the class offers deep sympathy.

We are indebted to G. A. Vondermuhl Jr., '35 for Alec's Times obit.

The Class of 1927