Minonk native elected head of Florida statewide group of clubs
Tuesday June 1, 2004 Posted 12:00 p.m.
The following article from the Tampa Tribune was forwarded to us by Andy Paloumpis.
Pat Keel is the former Pat Curley from Minonk.
TAMPA WOMAN ELECTED HEAD OF STATEWIDE GROUP OF CLUBS
Pat Keel likes to tell people that a women's service club "saved my life" because it helped her
make friends after moving to Tampa in 1961. Now the grandmother of 11 will become the first
Tampa woman in more than 60 years to lead the 15,000-member GFWC Florida Federation of Women's
Clubs. Keel was elected president-elect of the statewide organization of 250 clubs and will
assume the presidency in Aprl 2006. The Florida organization if part of the International
General Federation of Women's Clubs, a service club. Soon after moving to Tampa with her
husband, C.J. Keel, Jr., she was invited to the Tampa Junior Woman's Club.
"I got active in Tampa and have loved it ever since," said Keel, a former president of the
Tampa Woman' Club. The South Tampa resident has held several positions on the state board and
will oversee 27 districts as president-elect. The last state president from the Tampa district
was Lucille King, dean of girls at the University of Tampa, in1942.
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