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Greenwood Library Archives and Special Collections
Janet D. Greenwood Library401 Redford Street
Farmville, VA 23909
Business Number: 434-395-2433
ask@longwood.libanswers.com
URL: https://libguides.longwood.edu/home/asc
Heather Milne
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
There are no restrictions to access or use for research purposes.
Ownership and Custodial History
The materials in this collection originated in the office of Dr. Charles Patterson. It is not known when this collection was transferred to Greenwood Library. However, the transfer likely occurred after Dr. Patterson's retirement in 1986.
Biographical sketch
Dr. Charles H. Patterson, served as the chairman of the Department of Education, Psychology, and Philosophy at Longwood College for 22 years (1951-1973). During his tenure as chair he established the Wynne Lab School and assisted with the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) site visit in spring 1983. Dr. Patterson also served as the Director of Graduate Programs (1973-1986 for 7 years. In March 1973, Dr. Patterson was made Board of Visitors Distinguished Professor of Education for his services to the Department of Education, Psychology, and Philosophy and was made Emeritus Professor in March 1986 upon his retirement from Longwood College. Dr. Charles Patterson (October 11, 1924 - January 8, 2016) grew up in Waynesboro, Virginia. He was in the United States Army Air Force during World War II. Dr. Patterson received his Bachelors, Masters (1950) and Doctorate of Education (1958) from the University of Virginia. The Wynne Lab School is named for John Peter Wynne, the Director of Teacher Education during the 1920s when Longwood University was known as the State Teachers Collection at Farmville. The School was an elementary level laboratory or demonstration school, designed to provide future teachers with spaces to practice teaching skills, while being evaluated and monitored by college and university faculty. The Wynne Lab School was built in the late 1960 on Longwood College's campus and was open until the 1980s. After the Wynne Lab School closed, the Wynne Building was then used by different academic departments and was finally closed and demolished in 2006. The development of the Wynne Lab School spans the chairmanship of Dr. Charles H. Patterson, Chairman, Department of Education, Psychology, and Philosophy (now the Department of Education), and three Longwood University Presidents Dr. Francis Greenfield Lankford (1955-1965), Dr. James Heflin Newman (1965-1967), and Dr. Henry Irving Willett, Jr. (1967-1981).
Scope and content
This collection consists of the records of Dr. Charles H. Patterson, Chairman, Department of Education, Psychology, and Philosophy at Longwood College (now University). The collections consists of the correspondence (letters, memorandums, notes); reports; policies; budgets; floor plans and other documentation that pertains to the request for and construction of the Wynne Lab School on Longwood College's campus. The topics covered in this collection are for the need and justification of a laboratory or demonstration school; the construction of the Wynne building including the educational specifications for a laboratory school; and the operating and construction budgets. The majority of the correspondence is between Dr. Patterson; Dr. Henry I. Willett, Jr, President, Longwood College (1967-1981); Dr. Francis Lankford, President, Longwood College (1955-1965); Dr. James Newman, President, Longwood College (1965-1967); various Longwood College departments; the architect, Ben R. Jones; and the Virginia Council for Higher Education.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Education -- Study and teaching.
- Laboratory schools -- United States.
- Patterson, Charles H.
Container List
This file includes the business correspondence (letters, notes, memorandums) and reports pertaining to the request and justification for a demonstration or laboratory school. This file also includes the correspondence (letters, notes, memorandums) and reports pertaining to the educational and physical specifications for a laboratory school. There is also a set of letters from Dr. Charles H. Patterson to other universities and colleges requesting a site visit to observe their laboratory school programs and facilities.
This file includes the business correspondence (letters, notes, memorandums) and reports pertaining to the educational specifications for a laboratory school including the operational costs and budgets. The file also includes a roster from the Laboratory School Administrators Association for 1967 – 1968 which Dr. Patterson was a member.
This file includes the business correspondence (letters, notes, memorandums) pertaining to the planning and construction of a laboratory school such as the educational specifications, suggested changes to the floor plans, and policies pertaining to the student admissions to the John P. Wynne Lab School.
This file includes the business correspondence (letters, notes, memorandums) pertaining to the Wynne Lab School planning such as the educational specifications, the floor plans with suggested changes, and policies pertaining to the student admission to the John P. Wynne Lab School.
This file includes a handwritten list of suggested changes for the laboratory school (dated September 11, 1968) and a schematic drawing (not dated).
This file includes the business correspondence (letters, notes, memorandums) pertaining to the construction bids and funding issues related to the Wynne Lab School.
This file includes a memorandum and spreadsheets pertaining to the Wynne Lab School's projected enrollments.
This file includes reports dating to 1979 pertaining to the utilization and enrollments at the Wynne Lab School. Some of the reports include date from multiple academic years (1978 – 1979 and 1979 – 1980).
This file includes reports pertaining to laboratory schools at Longwood College, Virginia State University, and James Madison University.
This file includes the business correspondence (letters and memorandums) and reports pertaining to the justification for continuing to have a laboratory school.
This file includes reports and policies pertaining to the Wynne Lab School. However, dates are unknown or cannot be inferred for these documents.
This file contains blue prints for the "Proposed Site Layout, Campus Laboratory School, Longwood College, Farmville, Virginia, Ben R. Johns, Jr. Architect", no date.