Roy Patton Howell Jr. ’42

Versatile Pat Howell, who switched careers to achieve distinction as a writer, editor, and consultant in psychotherapy, died May 16, 2005, in Dallas.

A graduate of Highland Park Independent School District in Dallas, Pat was a member of Campus Club at Princeton. He graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and then studied international management at Harvard Business School.

After a stint as a United Press International correspondent, he started a land-development company and ran his own international affairs consulting firm. In 1978 he married Joan Docherty. Having decided to follow yet another path, psychotherapy, he earned his doctorate in 1981 from the Saybrook Institute in San Francisco. Pat and Joan started Saybrook Publishing, and he taught classes at the University of Texas and Southern Methodist University. He held several directorships.

Pat's greatest work was War's End (1989), which predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was awarded the Bronze Medal of the International Publishers' Association. He edited Beyond Literacy, The Second Gutenberg Revolution, which earned the Benjamin Franklin Award for the best nonfiction literature of 1991. He also was a nominator for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001.

Pat's son, Webster, predeceased him. To Joan, their four surviving children, four grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and other family members, the class extends deepest condolences.

The Class of 1942