Joseph Elmer Weisheit ’42

Mo, athlete extraordinaire and esteemed real estate attorney, died July 7, 2005, of a pulmonary embolism at his home in Luthersville, Md.

A graduate of Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, where he was class president and an All-Maryland football and lacrosse player, Mo majored in politics at Princeton, was an All-American lacrosse player and team captain, and was manager of Cloister Inn.

After Army service in the South Pacific during World War II, Mo earned a law degree at Harvard. While there he married Jacqueline Wilson. They had sons John and Nicholas, who died in 1980.

Mo established a highly successful legal practice in Towson, Md. He served as counsel to and board member of Baltimore County planning, zoning, and administrative authorities, and played an important role in bringing charter government to the county. While developers were acquiring Howard County property for Columbia, one of America's first planned communities, Mo conducted all the title searches.

In local school athletic affairs he supported high-school football programs and construction of swimming pools in secondary schools.

Mo truly enjoyed his family and his life in Maryland. In our Twenty-Five Years Out, he wrote: "Wife, two children, nice home in Ruxton, splendid clients, attractive secretaries, well-stocked bar . . ." To Jacqueline, John, and family, the class expresses deepest condolences.

The Class of 1942