CHAMBER LEADER SOTERAS DIES AT 75.Byline: RICK COCA Staff Writer Patricia Soteras, a former child star and Agoura-area chamber director, has died. She was 75. Soteras, the executive director of the Agoura/Oak Park/Conejo Valley Chamber of Commerce, died Oct. 26 of a heart attack. As a child, Soteras, under the stage name of Patsy Lee Parsons, appeared in several of the classic ``Little Rascals'' films and in ``Yankee Doodle Yankee Doodle Revolutionary War paean of American glory. [Nurs. Rhyme: Opie, 439] See : Song, Patriotic Dandy'' with James Cagney. As the chamber's executive director for the past seven years, she was largely responsible for increasing the membership tenfold to 1,500 members. Soteras' son, Alex, a chamber vice president and the executive director of the United Chambers of Commerce, said it was his mother's idea to offer nonprofit organizations annual memberships for just $1. She is survived by her son; daughter, Hazel Zook of Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. ; and ex-husband, Solon Solon, Athenian statesman Solon (sō`lən), c.639–c.559 B.C., Athenian statesman, lawgiver, and reformer. He was also a poet, and some of his patriotic verse in the Ionic dialect is extant. At some time (perhaps c.600 B.C. Soteras of Westlake Village. Soteras' children have established a scholarship in her name at Pepperdine University Pepperdine University is a private institution of higher learning affiliated with the Church of Christ in unincorporated Los Angeles County, California, United States. The university's location overlooks the Pacific Ocean and is adjacent to the city limits of Malibu. , where she worked for a decade. The scholarship will assist students studying public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most and business. For more information, call (818) 889-3150. rick.coca@dailynews.com (818) 713-3329 |
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