Obituary

Hervy P. Mitchell, while working on a switchboard in the O Street substation, Fresno, California, came in contact with a high voltage switch causing an arc that shocked and burned him causing death. Born in Pasadena, November 2, 1896, Mr. Mitchell´s early education, after high school, was a year in Junior College followed by a year in the California Institute of Technology. He began work with the San Joaquin Power Company while a boy of fifteen, subsequently taking a course in electricity at Throop Polytechnic School. From Los Angeles, in 1918, he enlisted in the seventh provisional company, Ordinance Corps, as an electrician. Serving at Camp Hancock, Ca., on January 18, 1919, he was given honorable discharge and returned to the San Joaquin Valley and the San Joaquin Power, by whom he was considered one of the most promising young men in the organization. Mr. Mitchell joined the Institute, August 2, 1923.