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Tuskegee Institute
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Tuskegee Institute
Alabama

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
RURAL LIFE COUNCIL

March 21, 1953

My dear Doctor Patterson,

I cannot delay longer in getting this note to you, in appreciation of the recent announcement of your becoming director of the Phelps-Stokes Fund.

Although I have heard so many comments of sadness over your leaving Tuskegee that I am certain to be alone, my own emotions are those of purest delight! It is not, of course, that Tuskegee needs you less, we must all grant, but that the Phelps-Stokes, New York, and the people of Africa so very much need you more.

In this new work, therefore, which you now with such evident stature will assume, I wish you every joy, every personal and professional reward.

With best thoughts also to Mrs. Patterson, I remain,

Every sincerely,
[[signature]] Manet Fowler
manet fowler

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