2009-2010 Annual Report - Wayland Academy

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Patterson’s Bowl) was completed
with a Tartan surface (a synthetic
resin), and new tennis courts were
completed.
Patterson was as ambitious in raising
money as he was in using it for
Wayland’s growth. For example, he
was instrumental in generating
interest and momentum in Wayland’s
most ambitious capital campaign. It
was called the “Program for
Progress.” In 1964, Glen and Ella
Dye offered to match every dollar
raised over $475,000 in the capital
fund drive with two dollars of their
own up to a maximum of $50,000.
By the summer of 1964, the
construction of the stage addition
was underway. Mr. Patterson
announced that the fund drive had
reached $508,825 in gifts and
pledges, and that, with the matching
gift from the Dyes for $50,000, a
$35,000 gift from the estate of
George Griswold, and an $8,000
bequest from the Griswold estate, the
total for the campaign was at
$601,825.
Over the ten-year period from 1954
Ray as a member of the football team (#58)
through 1964, Wayland spent over a
million dollars on the construction of
Pickard Dining Hall, Memorial
Chapel, Glen Dye Dorm; the
purchase of the Fairgrounds and
Chapel organ; the remodeling of
Linfield Hall; an addition to Lindsay
Gym; and renovations to Warren
Cottage and Wayland Hall. And yet,
many of Patterson’s major additions
to the physical plant came in the late
1960’s. The breathtaking changes in
the Wayland landscape during the
Patterson Administration are topped
only by the fact that, when Patterson
finally left Wayland, the school was
not one dollar in debt.