David V. Mitchell

David V. Mitchell (born November 23, 1943) is a retired editor and publisher of an American small-town newspaper, The Point Reyes Light. In 1979, while he and his former wife Cathy Casto Mitchell together published The Light, the paper became one of the few weekly newspapers to ever win a Pulitzer Prize.

Mitchell was born in San Francisco, California, to Herbert Houston Mitchell (1902–1984) and Edith Vokes Mitchell (1906–1975). Herbert Mitchell was vice president and a minority partner in the San Francisco printing company Kennedy-ten Bosch. Mitchell’s mother, whose maiden name was Edith Alfred Vokes, was an immigrant from Canada. Both his parents were Christian Scientists, and his mother for several years sold advertising for The Christian Science Monitor.

When Mitchell, an only child, was three, the family moved to Berkeley, where he attended Berkeley High School. He spent his last three semesters in St. Louis, where he graduated in 1961 from Principia Upper School.

In 1965, Mitchell earned a bachelor's degree in English from Stanford University where his father had graduated in 1924. While still an undergraduate, Mitchell married Linda Foor in 1965, but the marriage lasted only a year. In 1967, Mitchell received a master's degree in Communications from Stanford.

After teaching a semester at Marvel Academy in Rye, New York, Mitchell left in December 1967 to marry Catherine “Cathy” Casto, whom he had met in graduate school. The couple relocated to Leesburg, Florida, where he taught Speech and Literature at Leesburg. Leesburg in the spring of 1968 was still segregated, and Mitchell joined efforts to register black voters.

From September 1968 to June 1970, Mitchell taught English, world literature, and journalism at Upper Iowa University in Fayette, Iowa. He also was the faculty advisor to the student newspaper, The Collegian, and the black student union, The Brotherhood.

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