Sydney H. Morgan ’59

Dixie died in Wingate, N.C., on 1 October 2018.  We learned of his passing when his dues card was returned in December 2019 bearing an unsigned note written in pencil: "Died on Oct. 1, 2018, of cancer."  The card had been addressed to Dixie at his address in Wingate.

Dixie came to Princeton by way of Andover where he was president of Blue Key (modeled after Princeton's Orange Key), vice president of the student government organization, and captain of the varsity track team.  At Princeton he majored in philosophy, ate at Ivy, served on the Orange Key steering committee and as University dining hall coordinator, and as battalion commander of Army ROTC.

Yearbook entries and his Andover 50th reunion yearbook track Dixie's movements after graduation: Eight years active and reserve with the Army; an MBA from Harvard in 1962; NYC and Upper Montclair, N.J. as a management consultant; Rancho Santa Fe, Cal., in 1981 as lecturer on mergers and acquisitions for Chemical Bank; Oceanside, Cal., in 1994 as chairman and CEO of The Howard Companies that he sold shortly thereafter, entering upon university teaching, the career he had always desired; still in Oceanside until 2004, then to retirement in Wingate, N.C. by 2009.

Thrice married, twice divorced, Dixie was survived by his third wife, Linda; three sons, John, Peter, and Matthew; and several grandchildren, to all of whom we extend condolences.