Alexander Papamarkou *52

Alexander Papamarkou, philanthropist and international investment banker, died Apr. 23, 1998, of a heart attack at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital in NYC. He was 68.

Born in Athens, Alexander graduated with honors from Athens College in 1948. That same year he came to the U.S. and enrolled in the Maxwell School of Public Affairs at Syracuse U., earning a bachelor's, magna cum laude, in 1951. He earned an MPA (*52) from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School and also studied at the London School of Economics.

Early in his career he was director of the Ministry of Industry for the Greek government. In 1961 he began a Wall Street career with Oppenheimer & Co. After a vice-presidency at E. F. Hutton he founded his own firm.

Devoted to arts and science causes worldwide, Alexander contributed in the U.S. to the Library of Congress, Rockefeller U., the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York U., the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lincoln Center, and the Cultural Commission of the City of New York. He was trustee and treasurer of the charities of the Prince of Wales in the U.S. He was honored internationally by the Greek Orthodox Church, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the Orthodox Patriarchates of Jerusalem and Russia, and the Spanish Order of Isabel La Catolica. He is survived by his sister, Lisa Papamarkou Jewell.

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