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About Me
- Arlene Philpott
- Many people already know this about me. I have been involved with Impact since first being referred here by the probation department in 1973. However, my last "beginning" here at Impact was August 15th, 1996. Napoleon Bonapart's Birthday and the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven. A most auspicious day! When I came back to Impact this final time, it was with little hope for a future. I foresaw shopping carts and social security housing. But that's not how it played out. Our Executive Director, Jim Stillwell, had a plan. He put me, a still rather fragile flower, in the Development Office and gave me a phone and a desk and told me to start getting donations of Christmas gifts for the clients. And that's how I started. It's been nearly 13 years. A lifetime. My father died. My mother died. I bought cars. Got apartments. Bought a house. Went to the Cream concert in NY. Lost more than 100 pounds. Got dogs and a cat. Life has happened. I'm a lot different from the disintegrating, heroin smuggling woman who walked into Impact in 1973, 1974 and 1996. Any questions? I'll answer them.
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