Winston Hill Cox ’63

Tony Cox died Sept. 21, 1996, of a heart attack after collapsing at a Manhattan health club.

At Princeton Tony studied American civilization, played rugby, managed the hockey team, and held offices in Charter Club and Orange Key. He graduated from Harvard Business School and then worked for Time, Inc., in the comptroller's office. After working on the launches of People and Money magazines, Tony joined Home Box Office (HBO) in 1976, rising six years later to executive v.p. From 1987-95 he was chairman of Showtime. He had just become CEO of Cybersmith, which operates cafes for computer users. He owned the San Jose [Calif.] Giants, a minor league baseball team.

Tony helped lead an effort to reduce violence in cable programming and was honored for helping increase the hiring of women and minorities in the cable industry. He was chairman of our fifth reunion, class president for the next five years, special gifts chair for our recordbreaking, 20th-reunion Annual Giving campaign, Alumni Council member, schools committee chairman in northwest New Jersey, and a board member of PAW.

The class will miss his energy and compassion and extends its sympathy to his wife, Heidi Stamas Cox, and their two small children, Alexandra and Samuel; and to his two adult children, Christopher and Elizabeth '95, his mother, Rosalie Cox Volkening w'29, a brother, Charles, and a sister, Virginia C. Bullock.

The Class of 1963