James M. Fox III ’54

Jim died Oct. 6, 2021.

He prepared at Jenkintown High School and excelled in football and track and field. At Princeton he majored in biology and was active in the Pre-Medical Society. He joined Cannon Club, played football, and sang in the Glee Club Octet and as soloist with the Varsity Glee Club.

Jim earned a medical degree at Des Moines Still College of Osteopathy and Surgery in 1959. He married Lynn M. Davis in August 1957, and they had three children. 

He practiced first in Portland, Maine, and then in Columbus, Ohio. In 1968 they moved to Seattle, where he started practice as an orthopedic surgeon. After divorcing, Jim married Jacqueline C. Long and moved to California. He then enjoyed a 25-year career as an emergency room physician, including time as chief of staff of the ER in Landstuhl, Germany, as a lieutenant colonel in the Army, and later as head of the Medical Clinic in Yosemite National Park. 

In his retirement he and Jacqueline owned an antiques store in Gig Harbor, Wash. They eventually retired in Scottsdale, Ariz. 

Jim is survived by his wife of 46 years, Jacqueline; his children, James IV, Lynn F. Krueger, and Nathaniel; six grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; as well as three stepchildren and three step-grandchildren.