Phone: 803-981-1952

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Degrees and Certifications:

BA in Sociology with a concentration in Social Work from Winthrop College (now University)

Patti Garrison

 

My background is varied.  I started professionally as a social worker for DSS but after a couple of years, the desire to teach became too strong and I returned to Winthrop to complete my teaching credential. I spent about 1 year doing maternity leaves at Rawlinson Road Middle School and Northwestern High School before getting a job at Rock Hill High School.  I spent 30 years teaching Social Studies there before retiring in 2008.  I spent 8 years working as an administrative assistant for a company in Charlotte before returning to education as the bookkeeper/SIS clerk at York Road Elementary School in January, 2016.

Favorite thing about working in a school:  working with children and in my case, working with several of my former Rock Hill High students who now teach/counsel at York Road Elementary!!!

Family: I have two grown daughters, Laura and Katie; two sons-in-law, Albert and Chris; two grandchildren, Cole and Kerriline

Hobbies: I love to read (anything but horror!!!!) and I play the piano.  I like to garden as well.

Favorite things: rainy days (if I don't have to get wet!); the color purple; Clemson Tiger football; watching my grandson wrestle and watching my granddaughter ride her play tractor; singing, especially old hymns of faith

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