Deceased October 14, 2017
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In Memory
Another of the 10 Brooklynites who entered Amherst in September 1950 has died.
Bill Mead, who grew up and lived for years in the same Brooklyn Heights Willow Street house as Henry Ward Beecher, class of 1834, passed on Oct. 14, 2017.
Bill attended Saint Thomas Choir School and Trinity Pawling. At Amherst he majored in history and joined Chi Phi. We served on the Intramural Council together. Not surprisingly, he became a member of the Zumbyes. He served three years as a U.S. Army Ranger, rising to the rank of captain.
Bill received his law degree from the University of Virginia using the G.I. Bill and practiced for more than 35 years in the corporate arena in New York City and abroad. In New York, he was a member of the University Club. He continued singing for many years in the Brooklyn Heights Grace Church choir. He also was a skilled guitar player and prided himself on speaking four languages, as noted in our 50th reunion yearbook, Strangers Once.
In 1959 Bill married Mary-Chilton Winslow, known as Mimi, a Radcliffe graduate, journalist, syndicated columnist and director of corporate communications for the Dreyfus Corp. Mimi predeceased him in 2014. They traveled extensively around the world and lived for two years in Brussels, Belgium. In addition to their Brooklyn home, they had one that they enjoyed in Stillwater, N.J.
I recall Bill’s coming to homecoming with his daughter shortly after Mimi’s passing. I don’t believe that he had further visits to the campus. She (Elizabeth) and her husband, William Stowell, and his two sons; Malcolm and his wife, Kathleen; and George and his wife, Jane, and six grandchildren, Eleanor, William, Angeline and Nathaniel Mead and Carl and Timothy Stowell, survive him.
Hank Tulgan ’54