New Member, Pat Winkelmayer - Kiwanis Club of Greater Ocean Pines/Ocean City
by David Landis

Ocean Pines resident, Pat Winkelmayer, became the newest member of the Kiwanis Club of Greater Ocean Pines/Ocean City on Wednesday September 19th. Pictured are BJ Baker, herself a recent inductee, who sponsored Pat, Kiwanis president Al Kastner (partially hidden in the background), and Pat as she is congratulated by Don Schmid, Membership Chairman, during the induction.

Pat came to The Pines from New England by way of Ohio where she went to college and then to New Jersey to work as a Music Therapist at a Veterans Hospital. She raised a family of 3 children and lived in Wilmington, Delaware for 30 years. She was also involved in music groups and did volunteer work for charities which evolved into her being hired by Contact Delaware as the Volunteer Coordinator and later the Program and Training Director. Contact Delaware operates a 24 hour crisis hotline with professionally trained volunteers.

In 1975 Pat and her family started spending summers in Ocean Pines and eventually she and her husband built their retirement home there on the lot the purchased in 1974. Unfortunately, her husband passed away in 2004 and Pat then became a Charter Member of the Merry Widows and Widowers Social Club in Ocean Pines. She joined the Kiwanis Club to once again become involved in helping others.