Education
Cornell University.
Cornell University.
With Paul O’Leary, he authored An Introduction to Money, Banking and Corporations in 1937. Patterson came from a railroad family. He took his bachelor’s degree in Economics in 1925, his master’s degree in 1926 and his Doctor of Philosophy. in 1929.
All degrees were conferred by Cornell University.
His first teaching position was an instructor in economics at Washington Square College, New York University. In 1934 he took leave from New York University and returned as acting assistant professor of economics at Cornell.
The next year he served as a lecturer in economics at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1939, he became Dean of Men, Middlebury College and an associate professor of Economics.
Prior to the outbreak of World War Two, he was asked to take a position with the Office of Price Administration in Washington, District of Columbia
As an undergraduate at Cornell University, he served on the Student Council’s Freshman Advisory Committee, joined the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and through that organization was a member of the Irving Literary Society.