Mitchell J. Goroski Jr. ’66

Mitch died Feb. 25, 2025, of a heart attack following a health emergency and surgery five days earlier.

He graduated from Eastside High School in Paterson, N.J. He entered Princeton with the Class of 1964, joined Dial Lodge, and majored in English, writing his senior thesis on the works of William Carlos Williams.

After graduation, Mitch joined the Peace Corps and served in Thailand as part of a malaria eradication program. Following his two-year term, he enrolled in New York University Law School.

After receiving his law degree, Mitch worked as an attorney for Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Legal Services, where he met and married co-worker Jane Schneider. The couple moved to Albany, where Mitch joined the N.Y. Department of Environmental Conservation and soon developed a reputation as a water law expert. He later moved from the DEC to the Adirondack Park Agency counsel’s office, in Ray Brook, N.Y. He retired in 2017, and he and Jane acquired an apartment in New York City.

Mitch was a regular and popular presence at class events on the East Coast. He will be missed. The class extends its condolences to Jane and the Goroski family.