Carolyn Bennett-Patterson

Biography

During her career, Patterson served as legends editor, heading a staff that produced information to accompany the magazine's trademark photographs. She also wrote major pieces on a variety of topics, including Winston Churchill's 1965 funeral.

A graduate of Louisiana State University, Patterson spent a year at Mississippi State, where her brother graduated. While at Mississippi State, Patterson, then known as Mary Carolyn Bennett, served as President of the International Relations Club and played in the Maroon Concert Band, commonly known as the Famous Maroon Band.

During her sophomore year at the Starkville campus, and on her subsequent return for an additional semester, she developed a lifelong friendship with G. V. "Sonny" Montgomery of Meridian. Montgomery, who would go on to serve four decades in the U.S. House of Representatives, also has his papers preserved at MSU in the Special Collections Congressional Collection. I have an enormous fondness for Mississippi State," Patterson said. "Sonny and I were both in the International Relations Club and have kept in touch all these years. He persuaded me that my papers belong at Mississippi State."

The Patterson Papers include memoranda, drafts of articles and other materials related to her long career at the international publication that has been printed for many years in Corinth, Mississippi.

(Adapted from Mississippi State University Information Memo, March 22, 1999).

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