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[[preprinted]] [[image - illustration of children at play]] The Associated Negro Press Inc. National News Service 3531 SOUTH PARKWAY CHICAGO (15) [[/preprinted]] March 10, 1953 Dr. F. D. Patterson, President, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. My dear Dr. Patterson: Your letter of March 9, received. Of course, I cannot say that your decision to leave Tuskegee comes to me as a surprise because it is true that I have known of it for some days. It still does, however, leave me in a state of shock. Perhaps nothing could indicate the degree of your success at Tuskegee any more than the fact that the school people themselves, the world at large outside, and certainly many individuals like myself had come to regard you and Tuskegee as one and the same and more or less indissolvable. You have done a superb job. The school has grown and you have grown with it. The problems have been immense and your stature had evened up to them every stride they made. You have become deservedly a national figure. You have brought a new technique to the support of education. You have followed two truly great men and your feet have not wobbled about in their footprints. I presume I ought to be congratulating you upon your new post. I will have an opportunity to serve with you there too, I suppose. But I cannot escape a deep regret at your leaving Tuskegee even though I know the justice and soundness of all the reasons which compel you to make a decision. You leave a live and virile organization. I hope a man will be found to follow you who can hold the banner as high and as steadily as you have done. As an alumnus, as well as a trustee, permit to say that the Tuskegee family will always claim you and I hope that perforce your new work will throw you among us and with the school to such a degree that really we will not have lost you. The best of good fortune to you, Katherine and Fred. Etta joins me in mingled pride and regret. Sincerely yours, [[signature]] Claude A. Barnett [[preprinted]] EXECUTIVE STAFF CLAUDE A. BARNETT - DIRECTOR I. ROLAND - SECRETARY LUIX VIRGIL OVERBEA - CHIEF, COPY DESK GORDON B. HANCOCK - CONTRIBUTING EDITOR ALICE DUNNIGAN - WASHINGTON ALVIN MOSES - SPORTS CARL DITON - MUSIC ALVIN E. WHITE GLADYS P. GRAHAM NEW YORK CITY RICHARD A. JACKSON - BROOKLYN JAMES B. LAFOURCHE - NEW ORLEANS ROBERT C. CRUMP ISAAC JONES DETROIT, MICH. C. W. GREENLEA - ATLANTA, GA. R. C. FISHER - ST. LOUIS, MO O. B. TAYLOR - KNOXVILLE, TENN. HARRY LEVETTE - LOS. ANGELES, CALIF. BARBEE WILLIAM DURHAM - COLUMBUS, O. JOCK WILLIAMS - SAN FRANCISCO WILSON CELE - DURBAN, S. AFRICA LAWRENCE C. BURR - MADRAS, INDIA MUSTATA HYDER - KARACHI, PAKISTAN HOMER SMITH - ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA AMBROZINE E. VILLIERS - ANCON, CANAL ZONE GEORGE C. GREAVES - PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD ADOLPH GEREAU - ST. THOMAS, VIRGIN ISLANDS SAM MORRIS RUDOLPH DUNBAR LONDON, ENGLAND JACOB BROWNE - MONROVIA, LIBERIA WILBERT E. HEMMING - KINGSTON, JAMAICA NNAMDI AZIKIWE - LAGOS, NIGERIA HENRY B. COLE - ACCRA, GOLD COAST, WEST AFRICA EMANUEL R. RACINE - PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI [[line]] CHICAGO PHONE OAKLAND 4-6400 [[line]] WASHINGTON BUREAU 1915 14TH STREET, N.W. WASHINGTON, D.C. MICHIGAN 6400 [[line]] CABLE ADDRESS: NEGROPRESS, CHICAGO [[/preprinted]]
