page_title: Fred Lewis Pattee
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Fred Lewis Pattee / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: The Pattee Library and mall at Penn State University. In July 1994, it was announced that a five-story addition to Pattee Library was to be named the Paterno Library, in honor of Joe and Sue Paterno for their leadership and promotion of Penn State's education programs. The groundbreaking ceremony for the new Paterno Library was held on April 25, 1997, and it was dedicated along with the newly remodeled Pattee Library on Sept. 8, 2000. Both libraries share the same circulation desk.
context_page_description: Fred Lewis Pattee was an American author and scholar of American literature. As a professor of American literature at the Pennsylvania State University, Pattee wrote the lyrics of the Penn State Alma Mater. Pattee is sometimes labeled the "first Professor of American Literature", a position he held at Penn State from 1895 until 1928.
context_section_description: A library was constructed on Penn State's flagship University Park campus from 1937 to 1940, known as Pattee Library, that now forms the west wing of the Pattee and Paterno Libraries, the center of Penn State's library system.
caption: The Pattee Library at Penn State, from the Pattee Mall.
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