Deceased May 7, 2021
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In Memory
My father, Gerry Patrick, died on May 7, 2021. He was 79.
Gerry grew up in Winchester, Mass., and attended Belmont Hill School. At Amherst, he majored in physics and hosted a classical radio show on WAMF.
After graduating, Gerry earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering at Tufts University. He devoted his career to medical device engineering, first with Hewlett Packard, then with Agilent Technologies and finally with Philips Electronics. Throughout his career, he designed cardiac monitoring equipment for hospital use, and along with two colleagues, he was awarded a patent for a signal rate converter.
Upon retirement, Gerry became active in his town’s computer and technology group, where he assumed the role of the group’s antivirus software expert. He also chaired the landscape committee at the condominium community where he lived. Gerry enjoyed attending classical music concerts in the Boston area and when he traveled. He enjoyed spending time with family, especially hiking in New Hampshire with his children. He was skilled at coming up with innovative solutions to problems, especially those of a technical nature.
He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Sally Patrick; by his daughter, Amanda “Mandy” Patrick ’98, and her husband, Joseph Stein; and by his son, Owen Patrick, and Owen’s wife, Christina. He is also survived by his four grandchildren.
Amanda R. Patrick ’98