Mitchell A. Kramer ’54

Mitchell A. Kramer ’54, Esq., died on January 15 in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania. He was born in Philadelphia, and came to Dartmouth from nearby Lower Merion High School. At Dartmouth he majored in government, worked at The Dartmouth, and participated in the Jewish Life Council. After graduation he attended Yale Law School, did a stint in the Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps, and worked for the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office. Mitchell founded his own law firm, which continues as Kramer & Kramer, LLP, with his daughter as partner. His career was bookended by complex antitrust cases involving the plywood and sugar industries and a recent class action in which he recovered excess payments from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on behalf of tens of thousands of taxpayers. Mitchell had a passion for modern art, particularly from the CoBrA school, and took his wife, children, and grandchildren to museums and galleries around the world. He was an avid and accomplished bridge player and prolific poet who published two collections and whose pockets were always full of scraps of paper with fragments of poems. Mitchell is remembered by family for his liberal politics, peerless bedtime stories, enjoyment of a nightly scotch, and unfailing pride in his children and grandchildren. He is survived by his wife, Judith Ann, children Barbara and Mitchell, grandchildren Anna and Alexander, step-grandchildren Jared and Evan, and three step-great-grandchildren.