CIVIC LEADER ALEXANDER DIES
Raymond Milton Alexander, a retired certified public accountant who helped found the Oregon Community Foundation, died of cancer Sunday in his Southwest Portland home.
A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in Moreland Presbyterian Church. He was 74.
In 1939, he began his 33-year career in the Dallas office of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., an international accounting firm now known as KPMG Peat Marwick. He worked in the Dallas office for 11 years until 1951, when he was named a managing partner of the Portland office.
After 12 years there, he became a managing partner in Peat, Marwick's San Francisco office for about three years until 1966, when he returned to his position in Portland. Mr. Alexander served as a member of the company's advisory board for 12 years. He retired in 1973.
During the early 1970s, he helped to develop the Oregon Community Foundation, a local organization that administers charitable funds and develops grants from individual and corporate donations. He served as its first executive director from 1973 until 1977 and retained his affiliation with the organization well into the 1980s.
The foundation has about $55 million in combined assets and is the 22nd largest such foundation in the United States, according to its executive director, Greg A. Chaille. Mr. Alexander ''established it as credible foundation right from the beginning'' and was instrumental in obtaining community support, Chaille said.
Mr. Alexander also served as on the board of directors of the Foundation for Oregon Research and Education and was chairman of a 14-member committee that examined the financial management of Oregon's higher education system in 1972.
He also served on the boards of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Knappton Corp. and GranTree Inc. He was a member of Moreland Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Alexander was born May 5, 1915, in Mineral Wells, Texas, where he was reared and graduated from high school. He was a noted amateur golfer during his teen-age years.
After moving to Washington, D.C., he worked for the federal government while pursuing a bachelor's degree in accounting.
He married Eloise Vick in 1939 in Dallas. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, serving from 1945 until 1946.
Survivors besides his wife include his daughter, Vicki Tagliafico of Portland; sons, Raymond M. Jr. of San Francisco and Robert C. III of Portland; brothers, Robert C. of Arlington, Va., Charles of Cheverly, Md., Harold of Bristol, Vt., and John of Takoma Park, Md.; and four grandchildren.
Private interment will be in River View Cemetery.
[The Oregonian, January 17, 1990]
Raymond Milton Alexander, a retired certified public accountant who helped found the Oregon Community Foundation, died of cancer Sunday in his Southwest Portland home.
A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in Moreland Presbyterian Church. He was 74.
In 1939, he began his 33-year career in the Dallas office of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., an international accounting firm now known as KPMG Peat Marwick. He worked in the Dallas office for 11 years until 1951, when he was named a managing partner of the Portland office.
After 12 years there, he became a managing partner in Peat, Marwick's San Francisco office for about three years until 1966, when he returned to his position in Portland. Mr. Alexander served as a member of the company's advisory board for 12 years. He retired in 1973.
During the early 1970s, he helped to develop the Oregon Community Foundation, a local organization that administers charitable funds and develops grants from individual and corporate donations. He served as its first executive director from 1973 until 1977 and retained his affiliation with the organization well into the 1980s.
The foundation has about $55 million in combined assets and is the 22nd largest such foundation in the United States, according to its executive director, Greg A. Chaille. Mr. Alexander ''established it as credible foundation right from the beginning'' and was instrumental in obtaining community support, Chaille said.
Mr. Alexander also served as on the board of directors of the Foundation for Oregon Research and Education and was chairman of a 14-member committee that examined the financial management of Oregon's higher education system in 1972.
He also served on the boards of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Knappton Corp. and GranTree Inc. He was a member of Moreland Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Alexander was born May 5, 1915, in Mineral Wells, Texas, where he was reared and graduated from high school. He was a noted amateur golfer during his teen-age years.
After moving to Washington, D.C., he worked for the federal government while pursuing a bachelor's degree in accounting.
He married Eloise Vick in 1939 in Dallas. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, serving from 1945 until 1946.
Survivors besides his wife include his daughter, Vicki Tagliafico of Portland; sons, Raymond M. Jr. of San Francisco and Robert C. III of Portland; brothers, Robert C. of Arlington, Va., Charles of Cheverly, Md., Harold of Bristol, Vt., and John of Takoma Park, Md.; and four grandchildren.
Private interment will be in River View Cemetery.
[The Oregonian, January 17, 1990]
CIVIC LEADER ALEXANDER DIES
Raymond Milton Alexander, a retired certified public accountant who helped found the Oregon Community Foundation, died of cancer Sunday in his Southwest Portland home.
A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in Moreland Presbyterian Church. He was 74.
In 1939, he began his 33-year career in the Dallas office of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., an international accounting firm now known as KPMG Peat Marwick. He worked in the Dallas office for 11 years until 1951, when he was named a managing partner of the Portland office.
After 12 years there, he became a managing partner in Peat, Marwick's San Francisco office for about three years until 1966, when he returned to his position in Portland. Mr. Alexander served as a member of the company's advisory board for 12 years. He retired in 1973.
During the early 1970s, he helped to develop the Oregon Community Foundation, a local organization that administers charitable funds and develops grants from individual and corporate donations. He served as its first executive director from 1973 until 1977 and retained his affiliation with the organization well into the 1980s.
The foundation has about $55 million in combined assets and is the 22nd largest such foundation in the United States, according to its executive director, Greg A. Chaille. Mr. Alexander ''established it as credible foundation right from the beginning'' and was instrumental in obtaining community support, Chaille said.
Mr. Alexander also served as on the board of directors of the Foundation for Oregon Research and Education and was chairman of a 14-member committee that examined the financial management of Oregon's higher education system in 1972.
He also served on the boards of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Knappton Corp. and GranTree Inc. He was a member of Moreland Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Alexander was born May 5, 1915, in Mineral Wells, Texas, where he was reared and graduated from high school. He was a noted amateur golfer during his teen-age years.
After moving to Washington, D.C., he worked for the federal government while pursuing a bachelor's degree in accounting.
He married Eloise Vick in 1939 in Dallas. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, serving from 1945 until 1946.
Survivors besides his wife include his daughter, Vicki Tagliafico of Portland; sons, Raymond M. Jr. of San Francisco and Robert C. III of Portland; brothers, Robert C. of Arlington, Va., Charles of Cheverly, Md., Harold of Bristol, Vt., and John of Takoma Park, Md.; and four grandchildren.
Private interment will be in River View Cemetery.
[The Oregonian, January 17, 1990]
Raymond Milton Alexander, a retired certified public accountant who helped found the Oregon Community Foundation, died of cancer Sunday in his Southwest Portland home.
A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in Moreland Presbyterian Church. He was 74.
In 1939, he began his 33-year career in the Dallas office of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., an international accounting firm now known as KPMG Peat Marwick. He worked in the Dallas office for 11 years until 1951, when he was named a managing partner of the Portland office.
After 12 years there, he became a managing partner in Peat, Marwick's San Francisco office for about three years until 1966, when he returned to his position in Portland. Mr. Alexander served as a member of the company's advisory board for 12 years. He retired in 1973.
During the early 1970s, he helped to develop the Oregon Community Foundation, a local organization that administers charitable funds and develops grants from individual and corporate donations. He served as its first executive director from 1973 until 1977 and retained his affiliation with the organization well into the 1980s.
The foundation has about $55 million in combined assets and is the 22nd largest such foundation in the United States, according to its executive director, Greg A. Chaille. Mr. Alexander ''established it as credible foundation right from the beginning'' and was instrumental in obtaining community support, Chaille said.
Mr. Alexander also served as on the board of directors of the Foundation for Oregon Research and Education and was chairman of a 14-member committee that examined the financial management of Oregon's higher education system in 1972.
He also served on the boards of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Knappton Corp. and GranTree Inc. He was a member of Moreland Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Alexander was born May 5, 1915, in Mineral Wells, Texas, where he was reared and graduated from high school. He was a noted amateur golfer during his teen-age years.
After moving to Washington, D.C., he worked for the federal government while pursuing a bachelor's degree in accounting.
He married Eloise Vick in 1939 in Dallas. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, serving from 1945 until 1946.
Survivors besides his wife include his daughter, Vicki Tagliafico of Portland; sons, Raymond M. Jr. of San Francisco and Robert C. III of Portland; brothers, Robert C. of Arlington, Va., Charles of Cheverly, Md., Harold of Bristol, Vt., and John of Takoma Park, Md.; and four grandchildren.
Private interment will be in River View Cemetery.
[The Oregonian, January 17, 1990]
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