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WAC Foundation Founder | Life Members | Affinity groups | Team member appreciation WAC Foundation Founder Life Members Affinity groups Team member appreciation Club Life J O H N B A N G For WAC Life Member Patricia "Patty" E. Doyle, donating to the Washington Athletic Club Foundation goes beyond her personal love for the Club. It's about honoring family roots that date to the Club's inception in 1930. "Our family history at the WAC began with my maternal grandfather, Carlton Daniel 'C.D.' Buckner's charter membership," Patty says. e lineage continued to her parents, R. Paul and Dorothy B. Doyle, who joined in 1945. Her mother was also a Life Member. Some of Patty's earliest Clubhouse memories include Father Daughter and Mother Daughter banquets, learning to swim in Helene Madison Pool at age 6, learning to ballroom dance during junior high school, and high school ski trips to Snoqualmie Pass with the WAC Ski School. She fondly recalls her dad coming to the WAC before work as an original member of the "Early Bird" group. He would play squash, swim, and sit in the sauna, enjoying friendly discus- sions with the guys. "Years aer my dad passed away, a man in the pool asked my name and when I said 'Patty Doyle,' he excitedly said, 'Are you 'Big Daddy's' Honoring a WAC Foundation Founder Member Patty Doyle looks back on a lifetime of Clubhouse memories u Patty Doyle just before Jubilee 92 this past December (above) and in two of her membership cards through the years. She is a self-described "lover of hats." Continued on page 29