{"id":1009,"date":"2019-02-25T08:10:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T08:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4hhousealumni.com\/blog\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2019-02-25T15:39:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T15:39:08","slug":"meet-your-alum-board-beth-patterson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4hhousealumni.com\/blog\/2019\/meet-your-alum-board-beth-patterson\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Your Alum Board – Beth Patterson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Greetings.  It\u2019s Beth\nPatterson – your Alumni relations connection on the board.  When the House women look to meet, mix, and\nmingle with our illustrious alums for networking opportunities, I\u2019m the one to\ncall!  The Homefront also falls under my\nresponsibility.  As Joyce Riskedal (web\nsite maven) has previously mentioned, please update your profile on the House\nweb site as we are moving to more digital communication in January of 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A little about me.\u00a0 I hail from Carroll County in Northwestern Illinois and was determined to attend the UI no matter what.\u00a0 My folks were concerned that this small-town girl would get lost in the shuffle of the University and they were right.\u00a0 Thank goodness for learning about 4H House through the connections I made while showing projects at the state fair. \u00a0The night that Natalie Webb Dougherty and Nancy Blankenship Ottosen called me to join 4H House and the pledge class of 1978, I was SO happy!\u00a0 I still get together with these ladies at Homecoming biennially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My passion for fashion (ask Joyce about that) and business\nled me to pursue two degrees.  One in Textile\nScience and the other in the Marketing of Apparel.  I applied that knowledge as a buyer for\nNeiman Marcus and as a store manager for various retailers including Carson\nPirie Scott and Casual Corner.  I\u2019d had\nenough of retail and wanted to work on the other side of the desk in wholesale.  My first 4H House roomie\u2019s husband was a big\nshot with Kraft, so I networked my way to an account manager position at Kraft\nFoods.  Next stop was as an award-winning\naccount executive with Abbott.  Then\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thoughts of working for myself had intrigued me for\nyears.  How could I use my knowledge of\ntextiles and business together?  Doink! As\nan owner of a successful laundromat of course! \nMy first location was on the campus of Ohio State.  I lost the lease to eminent domain and moved 3\nsemis of laundry equipment to IL.  Found\none here that was a dump when I bought it. \nIt\u2019s been revived and now produces triple the business!  No glamorous fashion here.  But it\u2019s lucrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My hobbies are power walking, sewing, and cheering for the\nPittsburgh Steelers.  I also enjoy\nhelping those that want to start a small business develop their business plan\nand get things off the ground like others did for me. I\u2019m also Six Sigma Black\nBelt trained to help your business find unearned revenue and improve your\nprocesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like the other ladies on the board, I wanted to give back to\nthe place where I got my start on campus. \nIt\u2019s been a pleasure working with ladies of so many different\nbackgrounds, life experiences, careers, and personalities.  We all work to make the best better at our\ncampus home as sisters with enduring friendships.\n\nLet me know if you are willing to connect with\nand\/or mentor a current 4H House woman.  Additionally,\nwe are always looking for sisters to join us on the board.  Call me!\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greetings.  It\u2019s Beth
\nPatterson – your Alumni relations connection on the board.  When the House women look to meet, mix, and
\nmingle with our illustrious alums for networking opportunities, I\u2019m the one to
\ncall!  The Homefront also falls under my
\nresponsibility.  As Joyce Riskedal (web
\nsite maven) has previously mentioned, please update your profile on the House
\nweb site as we are moving to more digital communication in January of 2020.<\/p>\n

A little about me.\u00a0 I hail from Carroll County in Northwestern Illinois and was determined to attend the UI no matter what.\u00a0 My folks were concerned that this small-town girl would get lost in the shuffle of the University and they were right.\u00a0 Thank goodness for learning about 4H House through the connections I made while showing projects at the state fair. \u00a0The night that Natalie Webb Dougherty and Nancy Blankenship Ottosen called me to join 4H House and the pledge class of 1978, I was [ …<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-meet-the-alum-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4hhousealumni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4hhousealumni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4hhousealumni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4hhousealumni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4hhousealumni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/4hhousealumni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/4hhousealumni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4hhousealumni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4hhousealumni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4hhousealumni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}