Community Service
Paula began her 40 years of community service in Arlington by volunteering with her children’s schools and with the AISD to make sure our public education system was the best it could be. Paula served with the Arlington PTA for eighteen years, as a room mother, on the Band, Football and Cheer booster clubs and also on the Arlington Independent School District Task Force on Athletics. In 1990 Paula coordinated the drug- and alcohol-free prom party at Arlington High School.
Paula’s dedication to children and children’s issues has been at the core of her commitment to public service. Noting a lack of local resources for victims of child abuse, Paula helped found the Alliance for Children in 1990 to address this urgent need. Since then, Arlington’s Alliance for Children has been a safe haven of kindness, counseling and care for over 25,000 child abuse victims.
A sample of Paula’s history of community service since 1970:
| Director and Founding Member, Origins of the Southwest Museum | |
| Member, Board of Directors, Theatre Arlington | |
| Corporate Sponsorship Chairman, Taste of Arlington | |
| Member, Advisory Board of CATS Theater | |
| Chairman, AIDS Outreach and the Arts Annual Fund Raiser | |
| Member, Board of Directors of AIDS Outreach Center | |
| Member, Advisory Board, North Texas Cancer Research Foundation | |
| Chairman of 1995 Bluebonnet Ball | |
| Chairman, Corporate Awareness Event, Meals on Wheels | |
| Board of Directors, American Heart Association, North Texas Chapter | |
| Member, Board of Directors, Child Advocates of Tarrant County | |
| Member, Arts Council of Fort Worth & Tarrant County | |
| Founding Member, Alliance for Children | |
| Recipient, Service Award of American Heart Association | |
| Coordinator, Drug-Free/Alcohol-Free After-Prom Party | |
| Member, Arlington High Band Boosters Club | |
| Member, Arlington Parent-Teacher Association (Service Award Winner) | |
| Member, Arlington Independent School District Task Force on Athletics | |
| Volunteer, Arlington Women’s Shelter | |
| Member, Night Shelter Planning Board | |
| Leader and Area Coordinator, Campfire Girls | |
| Founder First Democratic Women’s Club of Arlington | |
| Member, First Christian Church | |
| Mentor, Richard Greene Scholar Program | |
| Chair, Arlington Parade of Lights | |
| Chair, Design Industry Foundation Fights AIDS Tarrant County | |
| Chair, Arlington Museum of Art Gala | |
| Member, USA for Healthcare Board |
