Alexander H. Brawner ’21

Alexander H. Brawner died at this home in San Francisco, Calif., on Aug. 26, 1995, after a brief illness. He was 96. "Harry" was a third-generation Californian, and he managed the family paint firm, W. P. Fuller Co.

Following WWII, he was chairman of the Twelfth District of the Federal Reserve Board. He also served on the board of directors for Caterpillar Tractor, the Crocker Natl. Bank, the Del Monte Corp., the Pacific Lighting Corp., the Fireman's Fund Insurance Co., and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

Writing about his Princeton years, Harry recalled his ROTC training, hitting 96 of 100 practice basketball foul shots, a senior-year Oriental art course (a supposedly "gut" course that wasn't), scoring the one run that beat Yale in a baseball game, and most importantly meeting an "attractive, vivacious young lady," Virginia Lowry, who became his wife.

In San Francisco, he was president of the Mills Memorial Hospital, v.p. of the Chamber of Commerce, president of the Hillsborough Country School, and president of the Burlington County Club. He was also a trustee of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation and of Children's Hospital. He was a director of the Laguna Honda Home, the Madison Foundation, and the Fuller Foundation.

Virginia died in 1977. Harry is survived by two sons, six grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.

The Class of 1921