Albion Patterson ’27

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Word has just been received by the Office of Alumni Records that Albion Patterson died Feb. 14, 1996. Pat prepared at Episcopal Academy. At Princeton he majored in modern languages and was a member of Arbor Inn Club. After graduating Pat lived in Ojai, Calif.

He worked for the technical cooperation programs of A.I.D. and its predecessor agencies in Latin America. Pat retired in 1968 and became interested in the Indian philosopher Krishnamurti. In 1972 he became a trustee of the Krishnamurti Foundation of America and worked on a master index of 35 books by the great teacher.

Pat, twice married, had a son, Philip. The class extends sympathy to Pat's survivors.

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