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- 1901 Born in Washington, D.C., to William Ross and
Mamie Lucille Patterson
- 1915 Attended Prairie View Normal and Industrial
Institute in Texas and earned a teaching certificate
- 1923 Earned a doctorate in veterinary medicine from
Iowa State University
- 1927 Earned a Master of Science degree from Iowa
State University
- 1928 Appointed head of veterinary division at Tuskegee
Institute
- 1932 Earned a Ph.D. in veterinary pathology from
Cornell University
- 1935 Appointed President of Tuskegee Institute
- 1935 Married Catherine E. Moton
- 1943 Founded the United Negro College Fund
- 1944 Launched UNCF’s
first national campaign to raise funds for twenty-seven
small
private, historically
black colleges and universities
- 1953 Appointed President of the Phelps-Stokes
Fund
- 1964 Appointed CEO and President of the United Negro
College Fund
- 1973 Appointed Chairman of The Robert R. Moton Memorial
Institute
- 1973 Appointed Director of the College Endowment
Funding Plan
- 1985 Awarded the “Private Sector Initiative Commendation” from
President Reagan
- 1987 Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
- 1987 Awarded the Aggrey Medal from the Phelps-Stokes
Fund
- 1988 Died at his home in New Rochelle, New York survived
by his wife Catherine Moton Patterson and son,
Frederick
D. Patterson, II
- 1991 Published “Chronicles of Faith”-the
autobiography of Frederick D. Patterson- with the help
of Martia Graham Goodson
- 1996 The Frederick D. Patterson Institute was established
to design, conduct, and disseminate research to guide
policy makers, educators, the media, and the general
pubic toward improving the educational opportunities
and outcomes of African Americans
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SIGNIFICANT EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF DR.
FREDERICK D. PATTERSON