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The Palm Beach Post (West Palm Beach, FL)

| May 03, 2002 | COPYRIGHT 2007 The Palm Beach Post. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

May 3--PHILANTHROPIST HONORARY ECONOMIC COUNCIL MEMBER: Local philanthropist and businessman Alexander W. Dreyfoos Jr. became the fourth person Wednesday to be named an honorary member of Palm Beach County's Economic Council.

The others are former U.S. Reps. Harry Johnston and Tom Lewis, and businessman Thomas Pledger.

A founding member of the Economic Council, Dreyfoos owns The Dreyfoos Group, a private capital management firm that also owns and operates the Sailfish Marina in Palm Beach Shores. He owned WPEC-News 12, the local CBS affiliate, for 23 years before selling his controlling interest in 1996.

A year later, he made the largest private…

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