Lyman Bickford Kirkpatrick Jr. ’38

Lyman Kirkpatrick died at home in Middleburg, Va., Mar. 3, 1995. He prepared at Deerfield Academy. He majored in politics, was undergraduate chairman of the Woodrow Wilson School, and played freshman and j.v. football.

After graduation, he worked for U.S. News until June 1942, when he enlisted, and was assigned to what became the O.S.S. In 1944, he went to Normandy as General Bradley's briefing officer. He left in 1945 as a major. He spent a year with U.S. News, then joined what is now the C.I.A. He contracted polio, which put him in a wheelchair. In 1953, he was made inspector general.

In 1960, the Class of  '38 gave him its Distinguished Service Award. President Eisenhower named him to chair a study group that led to unification of various intelligence agencies. He was instrumental in reorganizing the C.I.A. In 1962, he became its executive director and comptroller.

He left in 1965 to teach political science at Brown Univ., and retired in 1982. Always active in church and civic affairs, he wrote extensively on defense intelligence and also served on several intelligence boards.

He is survived by his widow, Rita; by the sons from his first marriage (to Jeanne Courtney), Col. Lyman B. 3rd and Paul T.; by daughters Jeanne Pitner and Helen Knauss; and by sister Helen K. Millbank. The class extends to them its sympathy.