Willis Alvin Mitchell ’31

Willis A. Mitchell, whose health had deteriorated recently, died Mar. 16, 1996. At Princeton he devoted his time and energy to chemistry and was a member of Campus Club. In order to relieve the financial burden on his family, he left before the end of his senior year.

He worked first in the laboratory of the Hooker

Electrochemical Co., then in the Emerson Radio Co. in NYC., and later for a paper company in Glens Falls, N.Y. During WWII, he served on USS PC 595 in the Philippines and South Atlantic. He was discharged Seaman, second class, Oct. 1945.

Wiss's joined B. F. Goodrich Chemical Co. in Cleveland, where he became senior staff representative dealing with the foreign sale of plastics, synthetic rubber, and chemicals. When he retired in 1976, he was sales manager for South America.

In Cleveland he was an active member of Bay Presbyterian Church, where he was an elder. His first wife, Fran, died nine years ago. Their children, daughter Frances Mitchell and son Willis Gemmill II, and three grandchildren survive, as does Wiss's wife of eight years, Emilie Ovesen. To all of them the class extends sincere sympathy and joins in their sorrow.

The Class of 1931