Mitch died Feb. 20, 2015.
He prepared at Sidwell Friends School, where he was student council president. At Princeton, Mitch majored in English, played 150-pound football, and joined Tower, where he was manager of club sports. His roommates were Alan Allen, Rundy Blakemore, and Charlie Barrow.
Mitch finished Cornell Medical School in 1956 and spent 20 years as a thoracic surgeon in the Navy, eventually achieving the rank of captain. Next he became a professor at the George Washington University School of Medicine. Mitch was consistently recognized as a top thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon and was a life member of the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society.
After the death of his first wife, Betty, he married Sabyna Sterrett-Mills. To her, and his children, Jenny, Melissa, Elizabeth, and Mitchell Jr., the class extends sympathy with a salute to Mitch for his high achievement in medicine and his service to our country.