S. A. T. C. Days

Everyone in Hanover during the fall of 1918 will remember Major Max Patterson, Infantry, detailed by the War Department to head up the Dartmouth College Unit of the Students Army Training Corps when it took over the College's facilities in the closing days of World War I. A recent account of the Major's career since departing the Hanover scene follows:

Upon leaving Dartmouth, Maj. Patterson joined with Dr. Keppell, the Third Assistant Secretary of War, in organizing a peacetime educational program for the Army. Resigning the service in December, 1919, with the rank of Maj., Inf., Patterson returned to Fishburne Military School at Waynesboro, Va., where he had been Commandant and teacher before the World War. Later he was promoted to Lt. Col., Inf. Res., but school administrative duties required so much attention that he resigned this commission in 1929 and retired from the Reserves.

In September, 1941, after 28 years' service to the school, Patterson resigned his duties at Fishburne in order to devote his full time to operating a business which he had helped form back in 1922, his partner having been called to service in the Air Corps. The business, The Waynesboro Theatres Corp., operates two motion picture theatres, bowling alleys, and luncheonettes, all in Waynesboro, Va.

Anent the current war, Patterson says: "They don't seem to want me in the service; too old, I guess. At any rate, I am here, ready, whenever the powers that be, say the word."