“Some people make headlines
while others make history.”
Philip Elmer-DeWitt
 

National PTA

Phoebe Apperson Hearst and
Alice McLellan Birney founders of
National PTA, and the founder of Georgia's Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers,
Selena Sloan Butler.

Two National Organizations formally merged in 1970

Texas PTA

In 1896- Mrs. Ella Caruthers Porter established the first Mother’s Club in Hillsboro, TX to promote “child study and betterment of the home.”
1898- Mrs. Porter attended the second National Congress of Mothers and was appointed to organize a state congress in Texas.

Irving ISD Council of PTAs

The Irving City Council of PTAs (now the IISD Council of PTAs) held its first meeting on March 24, 1954.  At the meeting, the club’s constitution and by-laws were adopted, and officers were elected and installed. President Lorene Looper 1954-56
 

Irving ISD Council of PTAs Past Presidents

1954-56 Lorene Looper
1956-58 Tubbie Toombs
1958-60 Naomi Morris
1960-62 Janet Martin
1962-64 Jean Peak
1964-66 Dottie Milburn
1966-68 Lorene Secrist
1968-70 Jewel Parr
1970-71 Ruth Keatts
1971-72 Cathy Eichelberger-Hodnett
1972-74 Jeannie Killian
1974-76 Ramona Adams
1976-78 Pat Norman
1978-80 Nancy O'Teter
1980-82 Estelle Chamberlain
1982-83 Fannie Shelton
1984-86 Barbara Cardwell
1986-87 Lee Roewe
1987-89 Joan Sears
1989-91 Mary Hogan
1991-93 Tina Walsh
1993-94 Janie McDuffie
1995-96 Pat Norman
1996-97 Gayle Henegar
1997-99 Pat Riddle
1999-00 Gayle Henegar
2000-01 Ronda Huffstetler
2001-03 Christine Deel
2003-04 Pat Riddle
2004-05 Virginia Le Viseur
2005-06 Karen Martin
2006-07 Ronda Huffstetler
2007-09 Lulu Cruz
2009-Present  Marlene Steward