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[[preprinted]]
JOSEPH A. BERRY, M.D.
Veterans Administration Hospital
TUSKEGEE , ALABAMA
[[/preprinted]]

May 18, 1953

Dr F. D. Patterson
President, Tuskegee Institute,
Tuskegee Institute , Alabama

Dear Doctor Patterson:

I take the occasion of your commencement to send this short personal note. I received the word of your giving up the Presidency of the Institute with a feeling of mixed emotion. I  am happy for you, the Phelps-Stokes Fund, and the future, but sorry indeed for the Institute. The Phleps-Stokes had gained an exceedingly able successor to Dr Tobias who will ^[[widen]] even the scope