Patrick Gauen:
CLASS OF 1968
Collinsville High SchoolClass of 1968
Collinsville, IL
Mt. Summit High SchoolClass of 1968
Mt. summit, IN
Patrick's Story
Collinsville High School Class of 1968.
(Attended Mt. Summit, Ind., public schools grades 1-6, 1956-62)
I've been married for almost 17 years to CHS classmate Karen Earhart. Between us we have three children and one grandchild.
Karen has been a teacher at every level, from elementary through college, in Missouri, California and Illinois. Since 1993 she has taught in the Highland district. She also has taught at Greenville, Lewis & Clark and McKendree Colleges, and is completing a doctorate in education. In her spare time, she directs a church choir.
I'm in charge of the reporting team at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that covers crime and courts, and I wrote a weekly column on the side. Most of my career as a journalist was spent as a street reporter, covering stories all across the country. In addition, I'm a panelist on a weekly political commentary TV show on Illinois cable systems,and I formerly taught part-time at Washington University.
Daughter Bethany Horstmann is married and the mo...Expand for more
ther of a year-old son, Isaac. She manages a mental health center in Granite City for Chestnut Health Systems. She has a bachelor's degree from SIUE and a master's from St. Louis U.
Daughter Heather Gauen is a project manager for a textbook publisher in Urbana, Ill. She has a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Son Christopher Stephenson is a first-year medical student at SIU, having just finished a biomedical engineering degree at Washington U.
I got in touch with Karen, who then lived in Southern California, upon the death of our mutual dear friend, Tom Burroughs, in 1991. She and I learned later that each other's first marriage had failed, and we fell in love when she visited "home" to see her parents. We "commuter dated" for a year and were "commuter married" for another, with her living in California and I in Collinsville. After she moved here, we made our home in Highland.
Our lives since have been built around family first and our busy careers.
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