H. Mead Twitchell Jr. ’50

Mead died April 9, 2019, in Carmel, Ind. He had a life-long fascination with writing, publishing, and printing.

He was raised in New York City and went to Exeter, where he was editor of the Exonian. During his two years at Princeton from 1946 to 1948, where his father was in the Class of 1920, Mead was on The Daily Princetonian editorial staff and belonged to Dial. Leaving Princeton, he became a journalist and student at the College of the Good Road in Switzerland.

Following a stint in the Army as a second lieutenant training tank recruits, he went to Europe, where he worked with Moral Re-Armament for four years. After pursuing the same work for two years in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil, he returned to the United States where, in Los Angeles, he became production editor for Pace Productions, helping to produce a newspaper for global volunteer organizations.

In 1972 he moved to Fort Wayne, Ind., to spearhead the sales effort of Noll Printing, a large printer-publisher. In the early 1990s he retired, keeping himself busy playing tennis, volunteering as a senior tax adviser, and traveling.

Mead is survived by his wife of 50 years, Inge, whom he met in Los Angeles and married in her native Denmark; their son, Robert; and two grandchildren.