John Wister Meigs ’36

Wister died Mar. 25, 1997, after a long illness. He was 82.

He prepared at Washington's Sidwell Friends School. At Princeton he majored in biology, was president of Theater Intime and a member of Colonial Club. In 1940 he received his medical degree from Harvard.

During WWII, he served two years in the office of the Army Surgeon General assigned to Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene. As a major he received the Army's Commendation Medal.

After the war he joined the faculty of Yale in the department of epidemiology and public health. He was a founder of the Occupational Medical Assn. of Connecticut. He published approximately 70 scientific papers on occupational medicine and his work was recognized by the American College of Occupational Medicine. In the 1970s his studies led him to a sixmonth trip to Japan to work at the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission.

For many years, in addition to his responsibilities at Yale, he was a consultant to several leading New Haven corporations on safety and health. His diversified community activities were many.

Wister is survived by his wife, Camilla Riggs Meigs, daughters Anne Campbell, Patience Bousel, and Margaret Cabral, a son Jonathan, sisters Sarah Brown and Mary Meigs, and 11 grandchildren.

Wister was a loyal Princetonian. He indeed led a meaningful life.

The Class of 1936