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...Said the Baltimore Afro-American of Minister-designate Walton: "His indorsements for the position come from a cross-section of American life . . . Senator Robert F. Wagner, white . . . Claude A. Barnett, editor-in-chief, Associated Negro Press . . . Bishop Reverdy C. Ransom of the African Methodist Episcopal Church . . . Dr. R. R. Moton, retired principal, Tuskeegee . . . George Foster Peabody, banker . . . Dr. Mary F. Waring, president, National Association of Colored Women's Clubs...
Down to 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...
...some years Tuskegee's trustees have known that a new president must soon be found. Dr. Moton, old (67) & ailing, announced he would retire in June 1935. Two years ago everyone believed that Dr. Russell C. Atkins, director of the Institute's Agricultural Department, was being groomed to succeed him. One night a Negro lunatic murdered Dr. Atkins. The trustees turned their thoughts to others: Sociologist Charles Spurgeon Johnson of the Rosenwald Foundation; Channing Tobias, Y. M. C. A. worker; President Claude A. Barnett of the Associated Negro Press; Emmett Jay Scott, Secretary-Treasurer of Howard University. Once...
Robert Russa Moton has built up Tuskegee's endowment from $2,000,000 to $10,000,000, its enrollment to 1,200. He has added an academic course of sorts. But Tuskegee is still what its founder made it. "I have managed," Dr. Moton tells friends, "to wobble around in Mr. Washington's shoes." Impartial Negroes deny that Dr. Moton has ever wobbled, agree that the imprint of the founder's shoes is stamped firmly on Tuskegee's 132 acre campus, its cornfields, cattle range, poultry yards, machine shops...
...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...