The Trustees, Directors and Officers of the New Jersey Manufacturers Association and its affiliate Insurance and Hospitals Companies, with deepest regret, record the death of Mr. Norman Frederick Wiss, a member of its Board of Trustees and Boards of Directors, at his summer home in Bay Head, N.J., on September 15th, 1954, at the age of 58.

For more .than 22 years, Mr. Wiss rendered outstanding and constructive service as a member of the Boards of Trustees and Directors of the Association and its affiliate Companies. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Manufacturers Casualty Insurance Company, the New Jersey Manufacturers Indemnity Insurance Company and the New Jersey Manufacturers Association Hospitals, Inc., in 1932, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey Manufacturers Association in 1941. He also served as Vice President of the Association in 1949-1950.

A grandson of Jacob Wiss, a Swiss cutler and gunsmith who founded the company, Mr. Wiss was Executive Vice President, Treasurer and a Director of J. Wiss & Sons Company, cutlery manufacturers, Newark, N.J. He was also an officer and director of Wiss Sons, Inc., Newark jewelers, a former director of the U.S. Trust Company, of Newark, which later merged with the National State Bank and a former director of Aero Mufflers Co., Bol-Inca Mining Co. and the West Company, of Philadelphia.

Mr. Wiss served as a member of the New Jersey Unemployment Compensation Commission, the National Recovery Administration, the War Production Board, Millburn-Short Hills Draft Board and the Industrial Advisory Board. He also was active for many years in the American Red Cross and numerous other civic and community welfare organizations.

Besides his mother, Mrs. Charlotte L. Wiss, Mr. Wiss is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mildred Sommer Wiss; three sons, Kenneth B. and Frederick D. of Short Hills, Norman F., Jr., of Livingston; a brother J. Robert Wiss, of South Orange; a sister, Mrs. W. Denton Taylor, of Short Hills, and five grandchildren.

Mr. Wiss made his home in Short Hills, N.J., for the past thirty years. Funeral services were held at Christ Church, in that town, on Saturday, September 18th, followed by interment in Fairmount Cemetery.