Patti believes education, fiscal responsibility and open communication are the criteria for the ANA and its membership. Her service to the ANA and the numismatic hobby speaks for itself. She doesn’t just talk about ideas or projects, she gets them financed and completed. She is in her 28th year of membership.

    Experience: past ANA chairman of the Publications Committee and Club Representative Program; member of ANA Finance Committee; ANA national volunteer since 1993; Summer Seminar instructor; Central States Numismatic Society (CSNS) president; Women in Numismatics (WIN) founding member and president; Friends of the Buffalo president, 2001 to date; Numismatists of Wisconsin governor. She is a Boy and Girl Scout Merit Badge counselor and YN education director for the Whitman Baltimore and Philadelphia shows.

    Patti has organized youth programs at coin shows, schools and scouting events, and personally raised over $10,000 to send Coin Collecting Merit Badge counselors to National Boy Scout Jamborees in 2001 and 2005, as well as organizing the CSNS Teacher Kits. She works with the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing presenting currency forums at conventions.

     Husband Rollie, an ANA member for 56 years, is an ANA certified judge and best-in-show exhibitor. Daughter Marlene and granddaughter Chelsea are also active in the Girl Scout coin program; both are ANA life members.

Son-in-law John Highfill wrote The Comprehensive U.S. Silver Dollar Encyclo­pedia and organized the National Silver Dollar Roundtable. Patti’s entire family is dedicated to numismatic education, the prime directive of the ANA.

    Recognition: ANA Presidential Award, Glenn Smedley Memorial Award, Medal of Merit, Century Club, Numismatic News Ambassador Award, National Silver Dollar Roundtable Woman of the Year and President’s Award, WIN Literary and Exemplary Service Awards.

    Outside numismatics, she was president of Iola Living Assistance, one of the 100 top-rated nursing homes in the country, and the Women’s Executive Council of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church.

    Patti’s eight years of ANA Board service, through four executive directors and staff and Board changes, have provided the necessary ANA experience for her to serve as its president.

    Thank you for your consideration.