H. Alexander Salm ’37

A native of Tuxedo Park, New York, but with European family ties in Austria, Alex Salm had been studying at the exclusive Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland when, in the spring of 1936, his former roommate Bill Seidler (who had earlier transferred from Le Rosey to Kent as a member of the Class of 1938) invited him for a visit. Thus, Alex found himself enrolled at Kent.

Among his many talents, Alex was already an accomplishedflyer when he came to the School. After graduating from Dartmouth he distinguished himself in the Army Air Corps in WWII as a Flight Instructor, ultimately taking command of a B-29 Super Fortress in 44 missions over Japan. Following the war, Alex worked for the Rehabilitation Division of Hilton Hotels and then pursued a career in commercial real estate with Douglas L. Elliman & Co.

Although he spent less than a year and a half at Kent, the School left an indelible impression on Alex’s life. Drawn to Kent’s invigorating rural location; its steady rhythms of work, study, prayer, and play; its no-nonsense, self-help work program which expected the same from each boy and made no distinction among economic backgrounds; and its egalitarian student population, sustain by a unique sliding scale of tuition, Alex developed a self-reliant work ethic that has remained with him to this day.

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