Robert D. Mitchell ’31

Bob prepped at Erasmus Hall and at Princeton was a member of the Radio Club. He graduated with a BSE in mechanical engineering and began work with the Whelan Studios as a studio manager and photographer.

In 1939 he left for the War Department to work in the research and development division of the Bureau of Ordnance. From 1941-43 he was in the Department of the Army, but, at this point, he switched services and applied to the navy for a commission and was accepted as a lt. junior grade. In 1945 he was promoted to full lt. and became liaison officer with the air force in the Pentagon, where he remained until 1946, when he went back into civil service with the Department of the Army. From 1960-69 he was technical director for the project manager for the army's helicopter armament program. In 1969 Bob left the civil service and moved to Rome, where he worked as managing director of the Rome office of Aeromaritime, an overseas marketing business. In 1975 he retired and eventually settled in the Norfolk area for the remainder of his days.

Predeceasing Bob was his first wife, Marie Ballis, and his sister, Kay Mohle, and surviving are his present wife, Anita Newman, and one sister, Caroline Woodward, one son, Robert D., and three grandchildren. The class extends its deepest sympathy to the entire family.

The Class of 1931