Professor of English John Mizner died December 14, 1998, in Waterville, Maine, at 66. Born in Vienna, Austria, he fled with his mother and brother to Yugoslavia following the Nazi invasion, then lived in England from 1938 to 1945 before moving to New York City. He graduated from Antioch College and received his master's and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. A member of Colby's English Department since 1963 and Charles A. Dana Professor of English since 1994, he was chair of the department from 1992 to 1995. From 1979 to 1982 he was chair of the Humanities Division.     In his 35-year teaching career until his retirement last spring Mizner specialized in British Romantic poetry and introduced courses in existentialism and the literature and history of the Holocaust. He was a board member of the Holocaust Human Rights Center and served on its education committee, which devises elementary school curricula promoting human rights. Survivors include his wife, Alison, his son and daughter, David Mizner and Sarah Marston, his brother, George, and two nieces, Gail Mizner and Susan Mizner.