Albert A. Lakeland Jr. ’51

Pete was born Sept. 10, 1929, in Baldwin, N.Y., to A.A. and Muriel Ager Lakeland.

A graduate of Lawrenceville, Pete majored in English at Princeton and belonged to Dial Lodge. He participated in wrestling (receiving a freshman trophy) and 150-pound football, roomed with Crawford MacCallam, and graduated with honors. He earned a master’s degree, also with honors, in English and comparative literature from Columbia in 1953. In 1972 he graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law.

Between 1956 and 1967 he was a Foreign Service officer with postings in Mumbai and New Delhi, during which time he became fluent in Hindi. In 1963 he returned to Washington as India desk officer, and in 1965 became special assistant to presidential adviser William Bundy. From 1967 until he retired in 1990 he was a Senate staffer, initially in the office of New York Sen. Jacob Javits and later as minority counsel to the Foreign Relations Committee.

Pete died Nov. 16, 2012, at Emeritus Senior Living Center in Arlington, Va., after a heart attack. His marriage to the former Dorothy Wingate ended in divorce. He is survived by his children, Nancy Ocean, Peter, and William; five grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and his brother, William ’44. His sister Muriel predeceased him.