College of Arts and Sciences

THINGS YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT PATTY BUTWIN BUT NEVER ASKED…

1. Wendell and Marcella Butwin’s Firstborn ; 7th Grandchild of John & Anna Butwin, 5th Baby Boomer
2. Shared a Birthday with Tina Turner, Robert Goulet, and Charles Schulz
3. Life Motto –“Show up, Listen, and Try to Laugh”  ;  also enjoys Money, Math, and Mankind
4. Two degrees from ISU, studied at Butler University (‘76), attended Smith College Symposium (‘97)
5. Taught math at Ben Davis Junior High for 7 years.  Taught math for SMWC Woods Online for 7 years
6. Worked for Indiana Bell and AT&T for 20+ years as an employee and 6 years as a consultant
7. Learned Lotus 123/Excel in 1982, Bought 1st PC in 1986 and 1st cellphone in 1995
8. Lived in Indianapolis, Schaumburg (IL), San Francisco (CA), Dublin (OH), Bedminster (NJ) and Avon (IN)
9. Moved to Haight Ashbury in 1990 , landed six blocks from where dad lived after WWII (1945-46)
10. Attended 1990 New Years Day Mass at Vatican. ..in St. Peter’s Square for Pope JPII Peace Message
11. Visited all 50 states, explored much of Europe, traveled to Argentina/Uruguay, next – Thailand (2018)
12. First airplane trip – October 1968 – to NYC for a journalism conference at the Waldorf Astoria
13. First Broadway show - Hello Dolly with Pearl Bailey and Cab Calloway October 1968
14. Celebrity sitings-Liberace at Waldorf Astoria newsstand October 1968;  missed Nixon & Humphrey
15. Most recent Broadway show in NYC - War Paint with Patti LaPone and Christine Ebersole
16. First job: The Root Store ; Retirement jobs: Chico’s, Jackson Hewitt, SMWC Math Professor
17. Enjoys 55 years of friendship with six women met through cheerleading at CYO Basketball
18. Served on Boards of the Indiana State University Foundation and Terre Haute Children’s Museum
19. Volunteers at St. Susanna Church and Family Promise of Hendricks County (homeless support )
20. STEM and Financial Literacy advocate ; Avid reader ...joined my 1st book club two years ago

Patty’s favorite household appliances are the microwave and the dishwasher.  Her favorite car was her 2000 BMW 325i.  She took piano lessons as a kid and again as an adult.  …Continues to play the piano for enjoyment only.  She relies on her iPhone and iPad Pro to get her through the day.  And she believes that the Internet and Microsoft Office Suite have made her life more productive especially as she recalls spending a week during the summer of 1981 erasing then recalculating a multi-cell bedsheet for an important cost study.

Finally Patty adheres to the philosophy put forth in the 1967 Broadway production of You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown and particularly in its signature song – Happiness is…. 

Happiness is singing together when day, is through 

And happiness is those who sing with you 

Happiness is morning and evening, daytime and nighttime too.  

For happiness is anyone and anything at all that's loved by you!

Thanks for the opportunity to share some of Patty’s secrets to “Living the Dream”.