Robert Lee Patteson ’49

Bob Patteson prepared at Andover. Before coming to Princeton, he served in the Army Air Corps Weather Service as a staff sergeant. He was with the 10th Weather Squadron, stationed in India for most of his service period, 1941-45.

At Princeton, he majored in politics and was a member of Charter Club, the Triangle Club, the choir, and the Student Federalists. He left Princeton in senior year when he contracted multiple sclerosis, and for the rest of his life he was a patient in Veterans' Hospitals in Framingham and Boston, Mass.

Records show that he had lost the power of speech and the ability to write; he was a skeleton of less than 100 lbs. when visited by a '49er in Mar. 1956. At that time, hospital physicians gave him only weeks to live, but no records of his death survive. The VA hospital went on computer 20 years later, VA records for that period are incomplete, and the Social Security Death Index information only begins in 1962. We have received no information about Bob, or of any possible survivors, since 1956; thus, we are forced to consider that the year of his death. We wish him renewed good health in God's hands.

The Class of 1949