Born: 26 June 1918, United States
Died: 1 October 1999
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Patricia Powers, Patricia Trecker
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1918, June 26 Born, Fergus Falls, Minn.
1942 Married Raymond E. Powers (divorced 1962)
1954-1957 Assistant to Margaret Mead, American Museum of Natural History, New York, N.Y.
1956 B.S., anthropology, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1957 M.A., anthropology, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1964 Ph.D., anthropology, higher education, and mass communications, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
1969 Married Edgar W. Trecker (died 1971)
1969-1978 Professor of anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1999, Oct. 1 Died, Waukesha, Wis.
1999, Nov. 1 Publication of Uncommon Lives: My Lifelong Friendship with Margaret Mead. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield