Jasper Dowe Bynum ’00

Dowe died July 17, 2020, at home, after a three-year battle with brain cancer.

He was born Jan. 13, 1978, in Birmingham, Ala. He graduated from Mountain Brook High School, where he was a member of the soccer and basketball teams. He also continued the family tradition of achieving the rank of Eagle Scout. At Princeton he was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and Cottage Club and kept up his habit of developing a large number of lifelong friends. Part of the inaugural group to major in operations research and financial engineering, he also earned a certificate in finance.

After a year with Goldman Sachs in New York and London, Dowe returned to Birmingham to co-found Cook & Bynum Capital Management. His work provided the opportunity to travel the world in an unending quest for knowledge.

Dowe contributed significant time and resources to charities focused on children, serving as fundraiser, adviser, and board member. As a scratch golfer he especially enjoyed organizing golf tournaments as charity events.

Known as a voracious reader and a walking encyclopedia, he also had a prodigious sense of humor, which never faltered.

Dowe is survived by his wife, Emily; daughters Ann Margaret and Eliza; son Jack; parents Stanley ’68 and Lucie; brother Julian ’02; and sister Mary ’05.