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Achievements aside, Dorothy Patterson relishes helpmate role.
Byline: Berta Delgado
FORT WORTH, Texas _Dorothy Patterson irons her pillowcases.
She likes them to be smooth and crisp for her husband, Dr. Paige Patterson, the new president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
This is a woman with two doctorates, a woman who started a thriving women's studies program at another seminary, a woman who has traveled to 85 countries and met world leaders, a woman with a high profile in a denomination dominated by the leadership of men. Yet, the first thing she lists on her resume under occupation is, "Homemaker."
"I enjoy teaching, I enjoy traveling, I enjoy speaking to women, but I don't enjoy anything as much as being the wife of Paige Patterson," she said recently, minutes after her husband's first sermon to the seminary body.
And if that means wearing splints on her hands to alleviate arthritic pain while ironing, so be it. Just the other day, she spent more than two hours ironing her husband's shirts _ 16 of them.
"I had an appointment at 10 a.m. and a speaking engagement that night, so I started at 6:30 a.m.," she said. "I just couldn't go another day without having all those shirts in order."
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