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Born: March 22, 1932
Died: May 28, 2023
Married: Renate
Alexander Wallace Dreyfoos, Jr. was an entrepreneur and philanthropist living in West Palm Beach, Florida. After graduating from the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1954, where he was a lifetime corporation trustee, and from Harvard Business School in 1958, he founded Photo Electronics Corporation, a company that specializes in photography and video production photography. He held ten U.S. patents. Some of the equipment developed by Photo Electronics Corporation can be seen on permanent display at the Smithsonian Institution. Mr. Dreyfoos served on the Trudeau Institute Board of Trustees from 1980 to 1998.
His father held a tent platform permit on Burnt Island from 1931 to 1950, and the family spent every August there. In 1963, Alex Jr. acquired a tent permit for a site on Green Island, to which he added a second platform tent. Then in 1972, when it became clear that the New York State intended to do away with the permit system, he bought a modest camp on Lake Kiwassa, to which he has since made substantial additions; see Dreyfoos Camp.