Alexander Forsyth Norcross ’63

Published in the Dec. 4, 2013, Issue

Alex Norcross died in his sleep of a massive heart attack Dec. 5, 1994, in Long Beach, Miss., where he was a patent attorney.

Raised in Atlanta, where he attended Westminster School, he went from Princeton to the Citadel in Charleston, S.C. Alex then served with the Air Force in Hawaii, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand. With a master's in systems engineering from USC, he next worked for Martin Marietta while earning a law degree parttime from Loyola Univ.

After first taking up the law as a patent attorney in New Orleans, he moved his practice to Gulfport in 1985.

Alex's hobbies and interests were many: electronics and amateur radio, the Greater Gulf Coast Arts Council, local yacht clubs, judge for the US SailingGulf Yachting Assn., the Pass Christian Rotary Club, the vestry of Trinity Episcopal Church in Pass Christian, where he was studying education for the ministry.

The class conveys its sorrow to his wife, Elaine; son, Alexander Jr., daughter, Elizabeth; parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Norcross; brother, David, and two sisters, Hazlett Segler and Susan Allen.

The Class of 1963