Patrick Emil Gauen

Background

Gauen, Patrick Emil was born on July 15, 1950 in St. Louis. Son of Louis Otto and Wilma Ellen (Rogers) Gauen.

Education

Student, Southern Illinois U., 1968-1970.

Career

Reporter, photographer, Collinsville (Illinois) Herald, 1969-1972; news editor, Collinsville (Illinois) Herald, 1972-1978; reporter, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 1978-1984; managing editor, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 1984-1985; reporter Illinois affairs, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1985-1989; political correspondent, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, since 1989; faculty university college, Washington University, St. Louis, since 1991.

Achievements

• Patrick Emil Gauen has been listed as a noteworthy Newspaper correspondent by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Mid-American Press Institute (board directors since 1985), Press Club Metropolitan St. Louis (board directors since 1985), Sigma Delta Chi (board directors St. Louis chapter since 1985, chapter president 1985-1986, 86-87).

Interests

• Avocations: reading; photography.

Connections

Married Patti Lynn Seib, December 8, 1972 (divorced 1992). Children: Bethany, Heather. Married Karen Earhart, July 11, 1992.

1 stepchild, Christopher Stephenson.

Father:

Louis Otto Gauen

Mother:

Wilma Ellen (Rogers) Gauen

Spouse:

Patti Lynn Seib

Spouse:

Karen Earhart

child:

Heather Gauen

child:

Bethany Gauen