George Doremus Patterson ’35

George died at Stonegates, his retirement home in Greenville, Del., Jan. 29, 2002, a week before his 90th birthday.

He prepared at the Hill School, in Pottstown, Pa. At Princeton, he joined Campus Club and was majoring in psychology until junior year, when illness forced him to withdraw from college. He spent much of the next 18 months in Germany, Austria, and Spain studying European languages. Life in Europe deepened his love of music and kindled a desire for more international travel. First, though, came a career. He returned to the United States and started to work in sales for the DuPont Co.

He married Juliet Grayson, of Huntsville, Ala., in 1939 and his career at DuPont flourished. He was transferred to explosives during World War II, then moved to textile fibers, where he worked for many years.

By 1972, George was ready to retire. Juliet had died a decade earlier; and he could no longer resist his old desire to "see more of the world." He did so — solo at first. Then in 1981 he married "an old flame" from college days — Harriet Hamilton Moore. ''We made it pretty much everywhere in the next 18 years," George said. They summered on Martha's Vineyard and spent most winters at the St. Andrews Club in Delray Beach, Fla. Harriet survived George as did his daughters, Juliet Hart and Carolyn Eaton, four grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. Charles Uhle.

The Class of 1935