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Patten, John Logan, American (Olmstead County, MN, May 5, 1908 - Ankeny, IA, June 15, 1981), Baptist Pastor and Evangelical Christian Educator

Early Life and Education

John L. Patten was born as the youngest child of David Owen Patten and Roxa Lydia (Clark) Patten. {1} He had two sisters and four older brothers and grew up on a farm near Stewartville, located south of Rochester, MN. [2]

Feeling called to the Christian ministry, he attended what was then known as the Northwestern Bible and Missionary Training School in Minneapolis, MN, graduating in 1928. After attending St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, and Indiana Central College, Indianapolis, IN, he graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN. [3] On June 5, 1962, he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. [4]

He first served as pastor at churches at Elmira and Eyota, MN. He later became the pastor of the First Baptist Church, Bancroft, IA, and the First Baptist Church, Windom, MN. [5]

At the Elmira church he met his future wife, Hazel Doris Carpenter, and after both had attended Indiana Central College, they married in September of 1932. At Bancroft, IA, they had their only child, a son, David John. [6]

In 1945, he became the pastor of Grace Baptist Church, Omaha, NE. He also served on the board of directors and taught at an interdenominational school, the Omaha Bible Institute (OBI). [7]

Evangelical Christian College President

In March of 1947, OBI faced a crisis when its board of directors questioned whether or not the Institute should survive or if its property sold, debts paid, and students encouraged to go elsewhere. Only Mr. Patten and the dean of women, H. Nell Malen, insisted that there was a need for such a school in the Midwest, thus saving the school from disbanding. [8]

Later in 1947, he was offered the position of president of the Omaha Bible Institute. Under his leadership, the school changed its name to the Omaha Baptist Bible Institute (OBBI) after the board of directors voted to join in an association with the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches in 1956. [9] After he acquired degree granting status for the Institute and it began offering a four year bachelor's degree in 1957, the name was changed to the Omaha Baptist Bible College (OBBC). [10] Under his leadership, the College prospered and grew until its campus extended from 1040 to 1060 Park Avenue in Omaha. [11]

In 1967 the College was offered the purchase of thirty acres and an option to later buy six more on the northwestern outskirts of Ankeny, IA, now a suburb of the Iowa state capital, Des Moines. [12] As a result, the College was moved to its present location in Iowa., and its name was changed to Faith Baptist Bible College (FBBC). [13]

The history of FBBC from its foundation in 1921 until its move to Ankeny, IA, in 1967 is chronicled in his book, For the Truth’s Sake: A History of Faith Baptist Bible College. [14]

In addition to his duties as college president, Dr. Patten served on the General Council of Baptist Mid-Missions, a Baptist missionary agency. [15]

In 1965, he found it necessary to retire as College president for reasons of health, since for years, he had suffered attacks of choroiditis, causing the deterioration of his eyesight. [16]

He continued to serve as President Emeritus after he and his wife, Hazel, moved to Ankeny along with the College. He taught for an additional ten years until advancing Parkinson’s disease forced him into full retirement. [17]

He died on June 15, 1981, of complications of Parkinson’s disease. [18] His wife continued as a volunteer at the College until her death on November 15, 1997, of heart failure. [19] Both are interred in the Hillside Cemetery in Saint Charles, MN. [20]

The College’s library has been designated the John L. Patten Library and contains his memorial and a portion of his personal library. [21] The John L. Patten Scholarship fund has also been established at the College in his honor. [22]

Due in large part to his eighteen years as College president, the Faith Baptist Bible College and Seminary remains an Evangelical Christian college that has had, during its 2019/2020 academic year, over 260 full-time students and forty academic staff members. [23]  Many pastors, missionaries, and other Evangelical Christian workers are located around the world as a result of his many years of leadership as President and President Emeritus at the College.

References

[1] Family archival copy of his Olmstead County, MN, birth certificate

[2] A family history compiled by his sister, Lela (Carpenter) Patten, located in the Patten family archives maintained by his niece, Carol J. Patten (email: carolpatten@woh.rr.com)

{3} In memoriam document in the John L. Patten Library, Faith Baptist Bible College and Seminary, Ankeny, IA.

{4} Family archival copy of a photo of Patten in a Doctor of Divinity academic gown

[5} In memoriam document

[6] In memoriam document.

[7] In memoriam document

[8] In memoriam document

[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Baptist_Bible_College_and_Theological_Seminary

FBBC is listed among the schools receiving the approval of the GARBC: https://www.garbc.org/church-helps/network-links/schools/.

Also: signage in FBBC’s Alumni Hall

[10] FBBC is accredited by the Association for Biblical Higher Education, the Higher Learning Commission, the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, as well as being approved by various other such educational entities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Baptist_Bible_College_and_Theological_Seminary. Also: Alumni Hall signage

[11]  The College’s Omaha location has become a commercial property. https://www.mapquest.com/us/nebraska/nay-mex-llc-273682321

[12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankeny,_Iowa

[13] Patten, John L. For the Truth’s Sake: A History of Faith Baptist Bible College. Ankeny, IA: Faith Baptist Bible College, c1978, p. 58.

The College’s current address is: 1900 North West Fourth Street, Ankeny, IA 50023.

[14] Published by the Faith Baptist Bible College, Ankeny, IA, c1978

[15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptist_Mid-Missions

[16] The Little Witness, April, 1965, p. 1. Chorioditis is described at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorioretinitis

[17] The Pattens sold their properties in Omaha and built a home at 223 North West Abilene Drive, Ankeny. The house was sold to the College but has since been resold.

[18] Family archival copy of Mr. Patten’s funeral program, June 19, 1981

[19 Family archival copy of Mrs. Patten’s death certificate

[20} Mr. Patten’s funeral program

[21} https://faith.edu/resources/library/. The sign over the library entrance displays the name, “John L. Patten Library.” The building is also called “Patten Hall.”

[22] Family archival copy of the scholarship fund’s financial statement dated December 31, 2015

[23] FBBC Wikipedia website

Book Source:

Patten, John L. For the Truth’s Sake: A History of Faith Baptist Bible College. Ankeny, IA: Faith Baptist Bible College, c1978

Internet Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Baptist_Bible_College_and_Theological_Seminary

https://faith.edu

https://www.facebook.com/faithbaptistbiblecollege/

https://www.petersons.com/college-search/faith-baptist-bible-college-and-theological-seminary-000_10002280.aspx

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjPMUER-CZlpGp7rfg64KKw

Patten, David John, American (b. Bancroft, IA, May 14, 1938), Art Librarian, Travel Writer, Art Collector

David J. Patten was born as the only child of Dr. John L. Patten and Hazel Doris (Carpenter) Patten in Bancroft, IA, where his father was pastor of the Baptist church. [1]

Education

Patten graduated in 1960, summa cum laude, with a major in art and a B.F.A. degree from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. [2]

He graduated in 1963 from the State University of Iowa, Iowa City, with a major in art history and a M.F.A. degree. [3] In 1966, he received an A.M.L.S. degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with a major in information science. [4] Honorary scholastic societies of which he became a member include Beta Phi Mu and Phi Kappa Phi. [5]

In 1995, he received certification in the commercial art and computer graphics program in the Industrial Division of the Sarasota County Technical Institute, Sarasota, FL. [6]

Art Librarian

From 1966 to 1968, Patten served as art and architecture librarian at the University of Cincinnati, OH. From 1968 to 1970, he was art and architecture librarian at Washington University, Saint Louis, MO, and was the Clarence Ward art librarian from 1980 to 1982 at Oberlin College, OH. [7]

From the April, 1970, to April, 1980, he served as editor of the Art Index, a library reference tool indexing over 150 domestic and foreign art journals, published by the H. W. Wilson Company, Bronx, NY. [8]

While in New York, he served as the first secretary of Art Libraries Society/North America (ARLIS/NA) and compiled the Society’s first membership directory. [9] He also served as the first chairman of ARLIS/NA’s New York City chapter, ARLIS/New York, and became the first editor of the chapter’s newsletter, the ARLIS/New York News. [10]

From 1982 to 1984, he was index editor at the Repertoire International de la Literature d’Art (RILA), an abstracting and indexing service of the J. Paul Getty Trust, located at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. MA. [11]

Changing careers and moving to Florida for health reasons, he served as graphic designer at the Saint Petersburg Times, now the Tampa Bay Times, retiring in 2003. [12]

Travel Writer

After retiring, Patten ultimately traveled to fifty-nine foreign countries in South and Central America, Europe, North Africa, the Near, Middle and Far East, and Oceania. [13]

He published over thirty travel articles, including two feature articles, in International Travel News (ITN) starting in 2009. [14] He published two books on travel, Travel Off the Tourist Track, and Planet Earth’s Legacy, UNESCO World Heritage Sites, both available on Amazon. [15] He also authored an anthology of science fiction short stories, Skyscape Scans, listed on Amazon. [16]

His travel photographs have been published in the Tampa Bay Times and International Travel News and exhibited at the Morean Art Center, Saint Petersburg, FL. His travel photography is online on Flickr and Facebook and has been published in his book, Exotica 2: Awesome Asia. [17] His graphic work is online on deviantart.com. [18]

Art Collector

Objects from Patten’t art collection have been donated to the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, the state art museum of Florida; the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; the Tampa Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg, FL. [19]

Art museum acquisition funds set up in his name include the David J. Patten Print Fund at the Norton Museum of Art [20] and the David J. Patten Asian Art Fund at the Ringling Museum. [21] An endowment in his name is located at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach. [22] Honorary memberships as an art donor include the Florida State University Fund’s Presidents Club’s societies, the Robert Strozier Society and the James D. Westcott Legacy Society. [23]

Art exhibitions based on his collection include: “Angels, Demons, and Anguished Souls: The Prints of John Martin,” exhibited at the Tampa Museum of Art in 1998 [24] and “Innovations in Printmaking: The Etchings of Jacque Callot,” at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, in 2000 and 2002. [25] Asian art from his collection was exhibited in “Sacred India/Sacred Tibet,” at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, in 2008. [26]

Patten’s art donations to Florida museums include Indian paintings donated to The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, [27] a collection of mezzotints by the English artist, John Martin, donated to the Tampa Museum of Art, [28] and a donation of etchings by the 17th century French artist, Jacques Callot, donated to the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach. [29]

Sources

1. Kossuth County, IA, birth certificate. Digitized copies of such documents are located in the Patten family archives maintained by Carol J. Patten (email: carolpatten@woh.rr.com)

2. University of Omaha transcript, graduated summa cum laude, July 6, 1960. The University is now known as the University of Nebraska at Omaha,

3. State University of Iowa, Iowa City, transcript, graduated with Master of Arts degree, July 2, 1962

4. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, transcript, graduated with A.M.L.S. degree, August 13, 1966

5. Membership certificate, Beta Phi Mu, International Library Science Honor Society, dated June 25, 1967. Membership certificate, Phi Kappa Phi, dated April 25, 1966

6. Sarasota Country Technical Institute Certificate, dated July 29, 1995

7. Design, Art and Architecture Librarian, University of Cincinnati, OH, 1966 - 68 Art and Architecture Librarian, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1968 - 1970

Clarence Ward Art Librarian, Oberlin College, OH, 1980-1982. https:// clarencewardartlibrary.tumblr.com/post/173333788427/art-librarians-1917-2017

8. Art Index (now Art Index Retrospective and Art Full Text). https://www.ebsco.com/ products/digital-archives/retrospective-indexes/art-index-retrospective

9. ARLIS/NA Secretary: https://d3lut3gzcpx87s.cloudfront.net/down/ eJwFwQsKgCAMANATOT8zzW4zNSnKjDYIOn3vbSI3L1rzfh4s9AgwAnX6xkUvQxldr! hMqRmVaTkpX5xRyWBULXib4hz8hBbu2n7M0xc3/v07no1_Feb1986.pdf

10. ARLIS/New York Chairman: https://d3lut3gzcpx87s.cloudfront.net/down/ eJwFwQsKgCAMANATOT8zzW4zNSnKjDYIOn3vbSI3L1rzfh4s9AgwAnX6xkUvQxldr! hMqRmVaTkpX5xRyWBULXib4hz8hBbu2n7M0xc3/v07no1_Feb1986.pdf

“The Board voted unanimously to accept with deep regret David Patten’s resignation as Editor of the ARLIS/New York News, and depressed gratitude and appreciation for all of Mr. Patten’s contributions in the amount of work done and in setting such high standards of quality of the newsletter.” https://www.arlisny.org/resources/Documents/v03no1_1980.pdf 11. RILA (Répertoire international de la littérature de l’art), later known as the Bibliographie d’Histoire de l’Art (BHA). https://www.amazon.com/RILA-INTERNATIONAL- LITERATURE-BIBLIOGRAPHIC-INFORMATION/dp/0001455982

12. Ad Production graphic designer, Saint Petersburg Times, now the Tampa Bay Times, 1989 - 2003. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa_Bay_Times

13, Archival list of the fifty-nine foreign countries visited: David J. Patten - Travel 2003-2017 - Countries Visited

14. Archival list of articles and photographs published: International Travel News - Published Articles, Photos, etc. by David J. Patten. Website: www.intltravelnews.com

15. Amazon citation for Wanderlust: Travel Off the Tourist Tract: https://www.amazon.com/dp/197820941X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=

1510936320&sr=1-2&keywords=wanderlust+travel+off+the+tourist+track

Amazon citation for Planet Earth’s Legacy: UNESCO World Heritage Sites: https://www.amazon.com/Planet-Earths-Legacy-UNESCO-Heritage/dp/1720782970/ref=sr_1_1 ?

s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1530975494&sr=1-1&keywords=David+j+patten+planet+earth%27s+legacy

16. Amazon citation for Skyscape Scans: https://www.amazon.com/Skyscape-Scans-Mr-David-Patten/dp/154423435X/

ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1495639130&sr=1-1&keywords=david+j.+patten 17. His digitized travel photos are online at:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/djpatten/sets/ www.facebook/david.j.patten.

Exotica 2, cited at: http://www.blurb.com/books/322445-exotica-2

18. Photoshop modified works of art are online at: http://vonwanderluster.deviantart.com/ gallery/

19. Donations of funds and works of art to Florida art museums:

John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Center for Asian

Art, Sarasota, FL, 2019 -

Museum of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg, 2000 - 2019 Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, 1999 - 2019 Tampa Museum of Art, 1997 - 1998

20. The endowed David J. Patten Print Fund was established at the Norton Museum in 2018

21. The David J. Patten Asian Art Fund was established at the Ringling Museum on May 6, 2019. From a letter by Andy A. Jhanji, Executive Vice President, Florida State University

22. The Norton Museum of Art endowment for the acquisition of fine art prints purchased by The David J. Patten Print Fund, listed at: Norton Museum of Art, 2019 Season Program, p. 63; Norton Museum of Art, 2019-2020 Season Program, p. 68

23. Nominations to honorary societies of FSU’s Presidents Club contained in a letter from John Thrasher, President, Florida State University, dated June 21, 2019, and a letter from Dion Guest. Florida State University Fund, dated August 3, 2019

24. “Angels, Demons and Anguished Souls: The Prints of John Martin,” exhibition, Tampa Museum of Art, September 13 - November 15, 1998., included twenty-four mezzotints by John Martin (English, 1789-1854). From the museum’s publication, Art Muse.

Etchings by John Taylor Arms (American, 1887-1953) exhibited in: “The Urban Landscape: Selections from the Permanent Collection,” Tampa Museum of Art, August 10 - October 8, 2000. Letter dated August 10,, 2000, from Jose R. Gelats, Assistant Curator

25. “Innovations in Printmaking: The Work of Jacques Callot,” September 16 - December 10, 2000: an exhibition of fifty-seven etchings by Jacques Callot (French, 1592-1635). A second exhibition of ca. twenty-four etchings by Callot were exhibited in 2002.

“Small Worlds: Five centuries of European prints and drawings from the collection,” July 5 - September 17, 2019: included nine prints from the collection

26. Museum of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg, FL, exhibition: “Sacred India/Sacred Tibet,” October 6, 2007 - February 24, 2008: included six Indian bronzes

27. Thirty-six Indian paintings, drawings, and mandalas were donated to the Ringling Museum of Art’s Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Center for Asian Art at the Ringling Museum of Art as of January 23, 2019.

28. Fifty-one mezzotints by John Martin (English, 1789-1854), nineteen etchings by John Taylor Arms (American, 1887-1953) and twelve etchings by Max Klinger (German, 1857-1920) were donated to the Tampa Museum of Art in 1998

29. Over two hundred etchings by Jacques Callot (French, 1592 – 1635) and fifty-eight color woodblock prints, most by Utagawa Kunisada (aka Toyokuni III, Japanese, 1786-1865) were donated to the Norton Museum in 1999. In 2018, there was an additional donation of thirty- six Asian works of art, nineteen fine art prints, and over one hundred art books donated to the Norton’s library