Just found this thread as I was looking up old grade school classmates. Pat and I were close friends from first grade through junior year in HS. Many were the days we cut classes at Shortridge HS and went to Broadripple to sit on the banks of the river and fish for carp. Pat would bring his banjo and practice. Remember him starting with an old mandolin on one of those days.He was a good kid and that's how I will remember him.