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James Moses Alexander
 October
21, 1908 — September
10, 2000
"Golden 50" Rotarian James
Moses Alexander, MD, CM —
our member with the second
longest tenure in the club —
died September 10 after a
long illness. The
Mecklenburg County native
joined the club on April 19,
1938, in the classification
General Medicine, shortly
after coming to Charlotte in
1936 to begin the practice
of medicine. He is the
father of James F.
Alexander, MD, who joined
our club in 1984.
Dr. Alexander, who was 92,
founded the medical practice
now known as the Mecklenburg
Medical Group, the largest
internal medicine group in
the county. He practiced
medicine until his
retirement in 1979.
He was active in medical and
community affairs serving as
head of the Red Cross during
World War II (he was unable
to serve because of a back
injury). In 1938 he was one
of a small group of
physicians along with other
community leaders who were
instrumental in founding
Charlotte Memorial Hospital
(now Carolinas Medical
Center). He was its last
living founder.
During the 1940s and 1950s
he was Chief of Medicine,
Head of Teaching and Chief
of Staff at Charlotte
Memorial. During the late
1950s and early 1960s,
despite heavy resistance.
Dr. Alexander was one of the
physician leaders to
recommend closing Good
Samaritan Hospital (which
served blacks only) and
integrating Charlotte
Memorial. He is still
admired by those who
remember those efforts and
for the fact that he always
had an integrated waiting
room.
He was one of the founders
and first president of The
Charlotte Society of
Internal Medicine and the
first president of the North
Carolina Society of Internal
Medicine.
After retirement, he helped
found and was first
president of the board of
the Shepherd Center in
Charlotte. He was a member
of the Charlotte Chamber of
Commerce and the Charlotte
Country Club and for many
years was on the board of
the Central Piedmont
Community College Foundation
and the Board of Visitors of
Warren Wilson College.
He attended a one-room
school and High school in
Newell and graduated from
the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill with
a BS degree in Medicine. He
graduated from the Faculty
of Medicine of McGill
University in Montreal in
1934 and completed his
internship and residence in
internal medicine and
pediatrics at Montreal
General Hospital and
Montreal Children's
Hospital.
His first wife, Stella
Frosst Alexander of
Montreal, and a daughter
predeceased Dr. Alexander.
We extend our sympathy to
Dr. Alexander's son, Jim,
his wife, Nancy Carver
Rouzer Alexander, another
son and daughter, nine
grandchildren, seven
great-grandchildren, and
three stepchildren.
Memorials may be made to The
James Moses and Stella
Frosst Alexander
Scholarships, Faculty of
Medicine, McGill University,
3655 Drummond Ave.,
Montreal, Quebec HAG ly6;
The James Moses and Stella
Frosst Alexander Endowed
Scholarship Fund, The
Medical Foundation of North
Carolina, UNC Chapel Hill,
8080 Airport Rd., Chapel
Hill, N.C. 27514; The James
Moses and Stella Frosst
Alexander Merit Scholarship,
CPCC, P.O. Box 35009,
Charlotte, N.C. 28235; The
James Moses and Stella
Frosst Alexander Scholarship
Fund, Warren Wilson College,
P.O. Box 9000, Asheville,
N.C. 28815; or the Myers
Park Presbyterian Church
Music Endowment Fund in
Memory of Stella Frosst
Alexander, P.O. Box 6160,
Charlotte, N.C. 28207.
The club will make a
contribution to our Student
Scholarship Fund in Dr.
Alexander's name. |
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