F. Knight Alexander ’57

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Knight died Feb. 14, 2013, in Massachusetts.

At Princeton, he majored in the Special Program in European Civilization, in the French sections, and joined Quadrangle Club. His senior roommates were Al French, Duncan Hoxworth, Ted Jones, Ted McLean, John Miller, and John Osander.

Upon graduation he attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, obtaining an MBA in 1959. Having a change of heart, Knight then went to medical school and graduated from Hahnemann Medical College (now Drexel) in 1964.

Initially, he worked in academic medicine at Tufts New England Medical Center in Boston. Then he moved to group practice at Salem Hospital, which grew to a 600-bed facility, where he continued to practice radiology. His great love was sailing the New England coast and skiing at Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine.

The class sends its condolences to his wife, Marge; his children, Elizabeth, Geoffrey, and Cynthia; and his grandchildren.

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