“They blanket my walls. I have one–they’re really of the village–a picture of 15 children all with totally radiant smiles, another fellow carrying a bucket of dirt, another one of two older gentlemen standing in the fields. And the rest of my office is all my family. Well I feel that Williams-in-India has shaped me. It just seems to be important that in my formative years I would do something that radical, for me growing up in a Southern genteel sort of life, to have done something like that. Since that experience, I lived five years in Japan. Given the opportunity by my firm to go there I didn’t hesitate. Because of India. It’s totally different culture? “Great. Let’s do it.” I had an opportunity to open offices in Beijing, Singapore and Taiwan. No trepidation.

–Gary Patteson '72, after years with the investment bank Goldman Sachs now is CFO of a Philadelphia-area investment firm begun by Williams-in-India colleague Scott Miller