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CATHY STACKPOLE, a New Jersey native who had completed undergraduate studies in speech, communication and theatre at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, was working with the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services when she entered Kansas State.

While pursuing the Master of Regional and Community Planning, Stackpole was a graduate teaching assistant in the department, served as the Director of the campus Women's Center, and was project coordinator for the Regional Crisis Center in Manhattan.

Her first position after completing the planning program was as Executive Director of Hope House in Independence, Missouri, a program and shelter for battered women and their children. Following more than three years in that role, Stackpole became Director of Development for the YWCA of Kansas City until assuming her present post as Executive Director of Rose Brooks Center in Kansas City, which provides services and shelter to battered women and their children.

Selected as a Rotary Scholar in 1985, Stackpole traveled to New Zealand for a six-week cultural exchange. She served for two years as Chairperson of the Missouri Coalition Against Domestic Violence and is now a member of the board of the Women's Fund of Kansas City.