Benjamin H. Mount Jr. ’37

BEN MOUNT, retired manager of the mathematics section at the Betts Atomic Power Laboratory of Westinghouse Electric Corp., died Feb. 9, 1991, of congestive heart failure, leaving his widow, Pauline; daughter Patricia M. Reymann of St. Paul, Minn.; a son Ben III of Vineland, NJ.; four grandchildren; and two greatgrandchildren.

Ben was track manager, stage electrician, and a member of the French Club at Princeton High. He majored in electrical engineering at Princeton, where he was awarded the Samuel Harrison Smith Scholarship sophomore year, the S.H. Smith and Jeannette McFarlane Galt Scholarships junior year, and then the Orson Desaix Munn Fellowship in electrical engineering, and graduated with honors. After nine years with Westinghouse as design engineer in the motor engineering dept. in East Pittsburgh, he shifted into teaching at the Univ. of Pittsburgh, where he had received his doctorate, as an assistant professor of mathematics, 19461953, before returning in 1954 to Westinghouse in nuclear reactor manufacture, as manager of the mathematics section at its Betts Atomic Power Laboratory. His fast wife, Marie, died in 1950. He retired in 1976.

All our condolences go to this manytiered family.

The Class of 1937