THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, August 5, 1995 TAG: 9508050242
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Peter Bryan Fitzpatrick, 50, of McLean, and formerly of Norfolk, died Thursday in Georgetown University Hospital of a heart ailment.
Fitzpatrick, who had worked as an attorney, executive and consultant in New York, Norfolk, and Washington, D.C., served in the administrations of Virginia Govs. Gerald Baliles and Linwood Holton.
He was executive vice president of the Center for Innovative Technology, which Holton formerly headed. ``He was a bright young leader whose death cuts short notable service for the Commonwealth,'' Holton said Friday.
Baliles said that Fitzpatrick was active in a drive to promote Virginia as a site for low-orbit launchings for businesses thanks to a federal office in Reston, NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore and the Langley Research Center in Hampton. He and Baliles also worked on international trade issues.
``Intellectually gifted, he had the ability to look ahead and explore the contours of almost any problem,'' Baliles said.
As a member of the board of the Virginia Air and Space Center in Hampton, he had worked hard to advance its educational mission, its officers said Friday.
He was a graduate of Woodberry Forest School in Virginia, Princeton University, and the University of Virginia Law School, and did post-graduate study at Stanford University and at Saint Antony's College at Oxford.
He had worked with the Norfolk branch of the law firm of Hunton and Williams of Richmond and with Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam and Roberts in New York City, and Lipsen and Hamberger in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Fitzpatrick was assistant general counsel for Newsweek and special counsel in Virginia for the Governor's Defense Conversion in Economic Transition. He also was active with the Northern Virginia Technology Council and chairman of its Research and Development Committee. He was a professor of technology and trade with the International Institute at George Mason University and chairman of the International Law Section of the Virginia State Bar.
Mr. Fitzpatrick is survived by his wife, Anne Wallace Fitzpatrick; a son, Bryan Wallace Westfeldt Fitzpatrick; a daughter, Lydia Winslow Collier Fitzpatrick; and three brothers, Whitfield of Stavanger, Norway, Vaughan of New Orleans and James of Rowayton, Conn.
Also surviving are his parents in Norfolk, William H. Fitzpatrick, former editor of The Norfolk Ledger-Star, and his mother, Frances Westfeldt Fitzpatrick.
Memorial services will be held Sunday at 3 p.m. at St. Luke's Catholic Church in McLean at 7001 Georgetown Pike.
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