A. ALEX PORTER

PORTER--A. Alex, died at his farm in Davidson, NC on Good Friday. He was 75. The cause was cancer. Porter was born in Charlotte, NC and moved to New York in the 1960s subsequently becoming a member of the Wall Street generation that popularized the hedge fund. He became a successful practitioner of that now-familiar investing craft, managing a firm he founded in 1976 as Porter Management and now known as Amici Capital. Porter was a longtime trustee of his beloved Davidson College and of Queens University of Charlotte. Among others, he served on the boards of Rollcast Energy, Distribution Technology, SLM Corp., the Library of America, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. In addition to his sister, Sarah Porter Boehmler, he is survived by his nieces Elizabeth Anne Boehmler and Alexis Porter Boehmler of New York City, and Jean Boehmler Reynolds and her children Sarah Hollingsworth Reynolds and Margaret Grier Reynolds of Haverford, Pennsylvania. A service to celebrate his life will be held at Davidson College Presbyterian Church on Saturday, April 26 at 1:00 pm.