Background
Scaletta, Helen Marguerite was born on April 13, 1927 in Sioux City, Iowa, United States. Daughter of Ralph J. and Ruth Cora (Coyle) Beedle.
Scaletta, Helen Marguerite was born on April 13, 1927 in Sioux City, Iowa, United States. Daughter of Ralph J. and Ruth Cora (Coyle) Beedle.
Associate of Arts in Business, Edwards College Business, Sioux City, 1946.
Accountant, Towners Department Store, Iowa City, 1947-1948; legal secretary, Phillip Scaletta, Sioux City, 1950-1974; service chairman, Easter Seal Society, Lafayette, Indiana, 1970-1988; recording secretary, Home Hospital Auxiliary, Lafayette, 1989. Danced in Civic Theatre Follies, 1962.
President Newcomers club Young Women’s Christian Association, Lafayette, 1967-1968, member chairman, board directors, 1979. Leader Girl Scouts American, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1960-1963. Chairman Mental Health Inc., Fort Wayne, 1960-1961, Cancer Crusade, West Lafayette, 1973-1974.
Precinct worker Republican Center Committee, West Lafayette, 1974-1976. National Missions secretary 1st Presbyterian Church, 1957. Member Purdue University Women's Club (president 1973-1974), Lafayette Country Club (golf chairman 1971, 90, bowling president 1992-1993, golf co-chair Battleground 9-hole group 1996), Purdue Women's Bowling League (treasurer 1978-1979), Cosmopolitan Club, Young Women’s Christian Association (Diamond award, 2005), Sigma Kappa (corporation board, secretary, treasurer 1971-1999), Kappa Kappa Sigma (president 1972), Sigma Kappa Lafayette Alumnae (president 1970, 1988-1993, Ernestine Duncan Collins Pearl Court award 1997).
Married Phillip Jasper Scaletta, May 21, 1946. Children: Phillip Ralph, Cheryl Diane Kesler.