HOOT
Spotlights... Cathy Montgomery
HOOT's
Facebook Administrator
Cathy
first started painting when she saw a display at a
library in Illinois. She has moved
several times because of her husband’s work and one of the
first things she did
was call the Society of Decorative Painters (SDP) and ask which
chapters were
located in the State she was moving to. She has lived in California,
Illinois, New Jersey, and Ohio and has been
a member of Windy Brushes of Northern Illinois, New Jersey Goldfinch
Chapter
and Pocono Painters (Pennsylvania). She
became a Heart of Ohio Tole member while attending her first Heart of
Ohio Tole
Convention before moving to Ohio. She’s
been a HOOT member ever since and has attended every HOOT Convention
since
joining the Chapter in 1995. Recently,
her favorite medium is watercolor.
Cathy
has held several offices as a HOOT member. Elected positions
for the HOOT Board are First Vice President, and Treasurer.
She has also held several
appointed
offices on the Board. For the Chapter’s Convention Committee,
she has worked at
the office for several years in data entry inputting convention
registrations,
class sales, and receipts for the Convention Treasurer. She
has served as an Assistant Monitor Chair,
volunteered with Convention Exhibit Hall ticket sales, Exhibit Hall and
a number of other Committees. She has sent
hundreds of emails to Convention attendees regarding classes.
Her
career field was Human Resources and she graduated from the
University of Illinois at Chicago with a Bachelor’s degree in
Human Resources
Management and worked in that field for Baxter Healthcare. She
was also a Human Resources Manager and
Diversity Manager for Parker Hannifin. In recent years she worked as
a contract employee for several large
corporations where she was able to gain additional knowledge about
computers
and different software programs...and keep an eye on her three sons
when they
were home for the summer.
Cathy
enjoys keeping up as much as possible with technology and
she keeps the Facebook page for the chapter. A favorite for her
is taking
computer classes, that is when she’s not taking painting
classes. She has taken a
couple of Facebook classes as
well. We have many friends on
HOOT’s
Facebook account who are from all over the world with the common love
of
painting. It truly is a small world!
She
loves to travel, speaks Dutch as a second language since she
was born in The Netherlands (Holland), has recently retired and wants
to take more time to paint, especially in watercolor as well as keep up
with
the computer classes and perhaps learn a couple of new languages.
