Alexander W Dreyfoos

Loving husband of Renate, devoted father to daughter, Catherine Dreyfoos Carter; son, Robert Dreyfoos, daughter-in-law Julie; grandchildren, Michael Aron Carter (Morgan), Michelle Carter Fenimore (Brian), Travis Dreyfoos (Natalie), Aron Dreyfoos (Lauren) and three great-grandchildren, Allison Fenimore, Grayson Carter, and Landon Carter. He was preceded in death by his sister, Evelyn Dreyfoos Spelman.

Born in New York City to Alexander Wallace Dreyfoos, Sr. and Martha Whittemore Dreyfoos he graduated from New Rochelle High School. He earned a BS degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1954), where he was active in Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and completed an ROTC program. After serving in the USAF in Germany as a 1st lieutenant, managing a photo reconnaissance laboratory, he earned an MBA degree from Harvard Business School (1958) under the GI bill. He was an inventor, holding ten U.S. and numerous foreign patents in the fields of electronics and photography.

Alexander W. Dreyfoos (Jr.), born in 1932, was chairman and owner of The Dreyfoos Group, a private capital management firm, which grew out of the success of Photo Electronics Corporation (PEC), a company Mr. Dreyfoos formed with his late business partner George W. Mergens in 1963 to manufacture electronic equipment for the photographic industry; and with the sale of his controlling interest in WPEC TV-12, the CBS television affiliate in West Palm Beach, Florida, which he owned from 1973 to 1996.

He was instrumental in forming and served as first chairman of the Palm Beach County Council of the Arts (Cultural Council for Palm Beach County.) Beginning in 1978, he spearheaded efforts to build a world-class performing arts center in Palm Beach County and, until June 2007, served as chairman of what has become The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. He remained on its board until his passing.

He was a Life Member Emeritus of the M.I.T. Corporation (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), having served on the Visiting Committees for Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, and the Media Laboratory/Media Arts and Sciences where he served as chairman for nearly a decade. The Alexander W. Dreyfoos Building at M.I.T. was dedicated in May 2004 and he proudly funded the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. Professorship.

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