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 Nita
Patrick
Vice President, IISD Board of Trustees
Place 5
Term Ends 2010
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Mrs. Patrick is serving her second term
on the Board of Trustees, but she is not new to Irving ISD. Mrs. Patrick
taught elementary music in IISD schools for 16 years. She served as a
volunteer in the district’s HOST program for two years, and in 1982 she
was a member of the TEA Textbook Committee for the state. Her four
children all attended IISD schools.
Mrs. Patrick was elected Vice
President of the Board in May 2007. She serves on the following Board
Standing Committees: executive committee; finance committee; and
curriculum, instruction and student committee, chair.
She has been involved in several
civic and professional organizations including the Irving Music Teachers
Association, Irving Retired Teachers Association, Music Teachers
National Association, Irving Women of Rotary, and the Irving Silvertones
Choir. She is a life PTA member.
Mrs. Patrick is a member of First
United Methodist Church where she is a member of the Chancel Choir.
She has taught private piano lessons
since 1960 and has served as a part-time bilingual tutor since her
retirement from IISD.
Mrs. Patrick holds two degrees from
Texas Women’s University: a bachelor’s in music education and a master’s
in church music. She has lived in Irving since 1956. She is married to
Irving City Councilman Lewis Patrick. They have four children and seven
grandchildren.
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