Alexander Wriedt Keer ’34

Alex Keer, class president from 1994-99 and chair of many reunions, died Feb. 27, 2002, in Princeton after a brief illness.

Following six years with an investment banking firm in NYC and five years in the Army, during which, in 1945 in Germany, he suffered a severe leg wound, he became in 1957 chief administrative officer of Princeton's School of Engineering. For 12 years he also managed a small island off the coast of Georgia, owned by an association of environmentally oriented members. "You haven't lived," he wrote, "until you've had to shape up 100 bird-watchers, all at once." In New Jersey he was a strong supporter of the Pinelands Preservation Alliance, to which in 1993 he donated the building that became its headquarters.

In 1948 Alex married Cassandra Lee Arnold, who died in 1990. In 1994 he married Mary Willard Atwater, the widow of Edward S. Atwater III '31, who survives, as do four stepchildren, Carrington B. Day, Frederick T. Day, Edward S. Atwater IV '67, and Anne H. Atwater. To them we offer our sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1934