Bucks contribute to Blazer GMs demise?

The Blazers GM Steve Patterson has resigned. Reading TrueHoop, it sounds like no one in Portland is that concerned. I think he made many missteps, all of which are nicely chronicled on the aforementioned blog.

When I heard he was fired, I went to Hoopshype to look this Patterson up (I'll explain why in a second). The funny thing about that was they list his worst move as a GM as the Blake, et al for Magliore trade. That old Jamaal. Still getting people fired. Whatever.

The reason I was looking this guy up is kind of weird. My dad played high school basketball at a little boarding school in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin called Wayland Academy. Bizarrely enough, the guy who coached him there was a guy named Patterson who went on to become -- and I'm going by memory -- a pretty successful general manager of, I believe, the Houston Rockets (more on him in a second). Even more strangely, the assistant coach on that same podunk basketball team (according to my dad they were no De Matha by any stretch) was future ABA and NBA coach Tom Nissalke. Two future NBA guys running a little rec-caliber high school team in a tiny little off the map town in Wisconsin. It always struck me as sort of weird. (Coach Nissalke was the less successful of the two, a kind of vagabond coach. He was always succeeded by guys who were much more successful (Del Harris in Houston; Frank Layden in Utah; George Karl in Cleveland). I vaguely remember meeting him outside the visitor's locker room in the nether regions of the old Milwaukee Arena when he coached the Cleveland Cavaliers. As I recall he was a nice guy who sported what would now be refered to as a "porn stache". Apparently he was a teacher at Wayland Academy and now serves as a voice on the Utah Jazz Radio network.)

Okay, back to the Patterson thing. I cannot find this Wayland Academy Patterson's first name anywhere, or his history. I know he is not Steve Patterson (he has to be much older), but, looking at Steve Patterson's bio, I think there is a good chance he is this guy's son (Steve Patterson has a lot of Houston jobs on his resume). Can anyone help me out with what Old Man Patterson's first name was, and whatever became of him, and if he did indeed General Manage the Rockets, or anywhere else for that matter? (I think he and Nissalke may have also had early connections with the Bucks -- can anyone confirm that?).