Henry Aaron Alexander Jr. ’45

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Alex died July 6, 2005.

He entered Princeton with a large contingent from Lawrenceville and as a resident of Atlanta, Ga. At Princeton he joined Campus Club, and was a member of Triangle and Theatre Intime.

Alex served in the Marine Corps and then returned to Princeton to earn a degree in philosophy in 1947. He moved to the West Coast, where he joined the faculty of the University of Oregon in Eugene and devoted his life to teaching in the Department of Philosophy.

There are no survivors known to the class.

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