Augustus Dixon Adair III ’36

Dick died Sept. 10, 2005. He was 92.

A graduate of the Lawrenceville School, he majored in political science at Princeton and also was a member of Cap and Gown. In 1950 he received a law degree from Emory University Law School. During World War II he served six years in the Army Air Corps in this country and in Europe, rising to the rank of colonel.

In 1957 he joined Magic Chef Inc. That year he and his family moved abroad, where they spent a total of 21 years in Venezuela, Spain, and Italy, and Dick was president of five separate Magic Chef operations. In 1978, the family moved to Atlanta, Ga., where Dick was named Magic Chef's president of international operations. He retired in 1985.

His community interests in Atlanta included serving on Emory University's Board of Visitors, and on Emory's Michael C. Carlos Museum and the Historic Oakland Cemetery. Dick's main hobbies were international travel and photography. Several of his photos taken on an around-the-world trip soon after his graduation from Princeton are in the Carlos Museum.

He is survived by a daughter, Lee Adair Lawrence '77, sons Cameron and Augustus Dixon IV, seven grandchildren, and two step-grandchildren.

The Class of 1936