Gamecock Veterans: The John Henry Mitchell Endowment Fund for US Veterans

John Henry Mitchell, ETR3, USN (Retired), 03 December 1954 – 15 May 1976, spent the last year of his life studying, learning, and enjoying the USC experience through classes (making the Dean’s List), friends and professors, a fraternity, and the fulfilling life of a young college student. Tops in his Navy classes before USC, John Henry was a local graduate of Columbia’s Dreher High School (1973), where he was an honor student, a National Merit Scholar, a member of the Student Council, Key Club, and the Blue Print (school newspaper), as well an avid member of the Dreher Forensic Debate Society. Charles T. Mitchell, CAPT, USAF (Ret) (USC 1975-1979), Ruth Felicia Mitchell, Ph.D. (USC BA 1977, MA 1979), and Graeme B. Mitchell (USC 1980-1982), have established this endowment to honor the memory, the military service, and the love of education of their older brother.