Alexander T. Colt ’37

AVID GOLFER, fly fisherman extraordinary, raconteur, modest Alex Colt died March 2, 1990, of leukemia, leaving his widow Toby, whom he married in New Zealand in 1944, son Oliver, daughters Susan and Jennifer, and three grandchildren. By 1987 he had had two by-pass operations.

Alex came to us from Woodberry Forest, where he was active in tennis, wrestling, and dramatics. He majored in politics at Princeton and was a member of Charter.

Abandoning his original thought to become a lawyer and after stints with Macy's, Mohawk Carpet Mills, and Time, Inc., Alex went on active duty in the Army in 1941 as a first lieutenant. After six years, mostly in the Pacific, in the field artillery, and with final assignment eliminating the remaining Japanese troops still holding out on some of the outlying islands of the Philippines, and being awarded the Bronze Star for services in New Zealand, he emerged as lt. colonel. He returned to Time, Inc. in 1946, first in New York and then in Cleveland, though in 1954 back to N.Y. as manager of the original SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, advertising sales manager 1963, assistant advertising sales director in 1964. Next came 10 years in London as managing director with NEWSWEEK, later heading the London office of the INTERNATIONAL HERAID TRIBUNE, before retiring to Napa, Calif.

All our condolences go to Alex's family and his many, many friends.