About Pat Treat

Life as an adventure: A Moving Background

Pat has been blessed to have have lived in many places. It is doubtful you really want to know where or why, surely, but if you do, click where. A person's abilities, possibilities, or worth have little or nothing to do with where they've been. However, experiences do influence who they are, and all this moving has made Pat a person who accepts changes easily, is fairly comfortable among other cultures, and knows how to use maps well. She's a person who is thankful for her life and, although she has gotten to have a lot of unusual adventures, she would rather hear someone else's stories than tell her own.

Pat is thankful for what she has learned from these experiences. She also knows that what's important has little to do with where you live, but a lot to do with your relationship with the people in your life. She's learned how cultural differences and life experiences can cause differences between people, but that what everyone has in common can bridge any gap. Because all people are important in the sight of God, she believes all people should be treated with respect.

Pat's calm comes from her faith. Her primary method of sharing the gospel is in attempting to live a life that shows God's kindness. Her favorite compliment is when people assume she is a Christian without the subject coming up. Although she has not sought leadership, she has felt honored to find herself to be in several leadership roles in her local church and in the Christian Women's Fellowship/Women's Ministries of the Christian Church of Pennsylvania (CWF and DWM ).

Pat has been married many years to Jay C. Treat who is a scholar, teacher/professor, musician, church leader and occasional preacher, and a computer (software) wiz. He's a creative and quiet genius who knows many things including eleven languages, half of which are no longer spoken languages. (That's not including the computer languages.) Jay works at the University of Pennsylvania.

[temporary picture until original can be scanned.] Pat and Jay outside the church awhile back. (Jay's '59 Chevy was old, but not an "antique" at the time.) Pat and Jay don't look like this anymore (see last picture).

They have two adult descendents. The daughter, Emily, has a BS degree in Psychology from Rosemont College and a Masters from Bryn Mawr in Social Work. As a Licenced Social Worker she is the Program Manager for a local agency providing services for children with behavioral problems caused by developmental difficulties such as autism. Besides training staff she is also a Mobile Therapist for some of these children and their families. She is married to Tim, a computer wiz besides being a musician, a carpenter, and a dedicated softball player (and a good one). Tim works for a computerized security system company as "Senior Support Tech to the IT Department", and plays drums for the church's band, Chalice Sounds, sings in the church choir, and has been a deacon.

Emily and Tim outside the church (by his father's antique Ford, and 4 others from his antique car club, one for each bridesmaid).

Pat's and Jay's son, Jay E (whom they call Jayson), has a degree from Penn in Digital Media Design, and also has a computer wiz (and web design) job, first at the Franklin Institute Museum of Science, and now is the "Creative Technical Architect" for an Internet advertizing company. He is married to Brenda. He has a penchant for being entertaining and for playing and creating games (board games). Below: 'American Gothic' revisited, and showing off the new engagement ring (5 yrs ago). Brenda works in the office for an eye specialist firm in the Wills Eye Institute Building.

The Treats are blessed to be able to spend time together as a family (and wish they could get out West to Arizona, Colorado and Texas more frequently to spend time with external family as well). Besides playing games together, Tim and Jay C. play in the church's band, Chalice Sounds, together. They also sing in the church choir together. To learn more about their Church or Chalice Sounds, click in the blue lettering. Or go to the internet and put in www.marplechristian.org which Jay created and maintains for their church.

Some of the things Pat enjoys doing are making or improving floor plans for more convenient living or working, designing furniture, taking pictures (and improving them with photoshop or painting from them), illustrating books her friends have written, camping, sampling and critiquing restaurants, and problem solving/daydreaming ideas like a local rescue mission (for both homeless people and discarded items) and she's working on designing a retreat center that can also be used as a woodsy wedding place. She has also guided the development of a prayer garden labyrinth for her church's lawn (but there were not the funds to make it permanent).

Below are (from left to right): Jay, Pat, Brenda, Jayson, Tim and Emily. Picture taken 11/2004

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