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...Tuskegee last fortnight went the Institute's trustees, led by their white chairman, William Jay Schieffelin of New York City. They hoped to persuade Dr. Moton to stay on but, if he refused, their minds were made up. He did refuse. Last week Tuskegee learned that Frederick Douglass Patterson, 34, would be its third president...
Born in the Anacostia section of Washington, Frederick Patterson was the last of four children. His father died when he was a few months old, his mother less than two years later. His sister Wilhelmina took him with her when she went to teach at Prairie View College, Tex. There, young "Pat" spent his time tagging after the football and baseball teams, getting his ears boxed for being a nuisance. Because he was a professor's brother, he could cut classes at will. When he studied, he studied hard, at agriculture and veterinary surgery. Later at Iowa State College...
...Negroes took a searching look last week at President-elect Patterson. Rich and famed though Tuskegee is, what the Negro Press calls "race men" are sharply divided on the merits of the vocational type of education it offers. Booker Washington founded the Institute "to put brains and skill into the common occupations of life." Raw, gangling black boys go to Tuskegee from all over the South. They work on and around the campus to pay for their keep and the small tuition: $31 for students in the high school department, $52 for those in the college. When they leave Tuskegee...
Many a Negro feels that Tuskegee's reliance on vocational training is a tacit admission of race inferiority. But to those who would like to see rich Tuskegee turn academic like Howard, Lincoln and Fisk, the election of Frederick Douglass Patterson gave no encouragement. More of a scholar than President Moton, Dr. Patterson is primarily an agriculturist and a veterinarian. Most Negroes concluded last week that Tuskegee will stay well within the Washington tradition...
Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson (New York Daily News), longtime aviation enthusiast, read "Return to Earth," thought it showed writing ability, decided it was a shame that such a fine young man must risk his life to feed his family. He wired Author Collins, offered him a $100-per-week job as a newspaper columnist, writing about aviation...