Alexander Proudfit ’49

"Sandy" died June 28, 2000, at Mercy Hospital in Miami, where he had been evacuated from his home on Great Guana Cay, Abaco, Bahamas. He died of injuries received in a fall after Hurricane Floyd severely damaged his home. He was 72. He prepared for Princeton at Choate and left Princeton at the end of our freshman year. He later graduated from Columbia with a degree in electrical engineering.

Sandy and a partner established a business monitoring air quality for municipalities across the US, and the work could only be done during the warm months. This allowed him to spend his winters in the Bahamas. Prior to 1980 he was based in Essex, Conn., but then moved permanently to Great Guana Cay. He powered his home there with a windmill and solar power and was an avid ham radio devotee with many ham friends around the world. He was married three times, but never had any children, and he was single when he died.

The Class of 1949