Alexander Graham Lewis ’35

Alec died at his home on Gramercy Park, NYC, Aug. 20, 1999, at age 88. He prepared for Princeton at Newark and Mercersberg Academies, participating in gymnastics, school publications, and dramatics. At Princeton, he majored in English and joined the Varsity Gym Team and Dial Lodge. Next came a year at Columbia U.'s graduate school of journalism and an MS degree that led to newspaper jobs until Pearl Harbor, when he joined the Army as a second lt. For two years, he recalled, he "fought a tidy war," defending Long Island Sound, then shipped to Europe, joining the 44th AAA Brigade on the Riviera front, and was sent to the Seventh Army to aid in its Rhine River crossing.

Exiting the military as a maj. in 1946, Alec worked briefly on the Foreign News desk, Intl. News Service, then plunged into creative writing with Lucille Camps. He married her on Aug. 12, 1950, got a job as press relations manager for Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Co. and, a few years later, switched to freelance speech-writing. For 39 years, Alec and Lu summered in Maine and shared a love for miniature poodles and American Pilgrim furniture. Lu died in 1989; Alec was writing until his death. There are no descendants.

The Class of 1935