Patricia Lyon Dennis

Background

Dennis, Patricia Lyon was born on June 13, 1933 in Rockford, Tennessee, United States. Daughter of Howard Stanton and Dora Hester (Maynard) Lyon.

Education

Bachelor of Science, George Peabody College, 1955; Master of Arts, U. Missouri, 1977; postgraduate, Auburn U., 1972-1973; postgraduate, U. Kansas, 1982-1992; postgraduate, U. Missouri, Kansas City, 1994, 96.

Career

3d grade teacher, Ray Street Elementary School, High Point, North Carolina, 1955-1956; kindergarten and 3d grade teacher, Wurtsmith Dependent School, Clark Air Force Base, Philippines, 1957-1959; special reading teacher, 1st grade teacher, McDonald Elementary School, K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base, Michigan, 1961-1963; kindergarten teacher, Gladden Elementary School, Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base, Missouri, 1964-1965; 2d grade teacher, library, Goose Air Force Base Dependent School, Labrador, 1965-1967; 2d grade teacher, Edgewood Academy, Wetumpka, Alabama, 1969-1970; 1st and 4th grade teacher, Trinity Christian Day School, Montgomery, Alabama, 1970-1972; 2d and 3d grade teacher, Fairview Elementary School, Olathe, Kansas, 1974-1977; library media specialist, Washington Elementary School, Olathe, Kansas, since 1977.

Achievements

• Patricia Lyon Dennis has been listed as a noteworthy Librarian by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

President Pre-School Board, Gunter Air Force Base, 1968-1969. Children's choir director Leawood (Kansas) Baptist Church, 1979-1984, Sunday school department director, 1987-1988, church library, 1990-1993. Board directors Scholarship Pageant, Kansas City, 1988-1996.

Chaperone, traveling companion Miss American-Kansas Scholarship Pageant, Pratt, Kansas, 1989-1998. Commissioner, book review committee Kansas State Reading Circuit Commission, Topeka, 1985-1991, 94-96, 97-. Primary subcommittee chairperson Kansas State Reading Circle, since 1998.

Member National Education Association, Kansas Association School Libraries (presenter since 1990), American Library Association, Kansas Reading Association, Alpha Delta Kappa (secretary since 1998), Sigma Alpha Iota (treasurer 1954).

Interests

• Avocations: harp, piano, voice, dance, physical fitness.

Connections

Married Norman Bryan Dennis Junior, January 12, 1957 (deceased January 1985). Children: Sarah Dennis Banks, Rebecca Dennis Hampton.

Father:

Howard Stanton Lyon

Mother:

Dora Hester (Maynard) Lyon

Spouse:

Norman Bryan Dennis Junior

child:

Rebecca Dennis Hampton Dennis

child:

Sarah Dennis Banks Dennis