Clay Patrick Bedford

Clay Patrick Bedford, Jr., 1929 - 2016   Passed away peacefully on August 26, 2016 in Portsmouth, NH, a victim of Lewy-Body Dementia.   Born in 1929 in Glen Cove, Long Island, NY, Pat was the eldest son of Clay Patrick Bedford and Catherine Ann Bermingham. Due to the nature of his father's job in the construction industry, Pat moved frequently and was witness to some of the greatest engineering feats of the first half of the twentieth century, including Hoover dam. As a teenager, he attended Berkeley (CA) high school where he made lifelong friends through his participation in the Boy Scout Troop xx. He graduated from the New Mexico Military Institute, in Roswell New Mexico where he earned what was then the school's only perfect score in the equitation discipline of Dressage. Pat entered Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, with the class of 1950, receiving a degree in Civil Engineering. While at RPI he was a member of the ATO fraternity and was on the ski team.   After college, Pat married Carolyn Stevenson,...