Pam Heckel

Secretary

Pam Heckel was born and raised in New York City. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and spent her junior year on an exchange program at Dartmouth College. She then started work in the fashion industry in operations and worked at Saks Fifth Ave from 1976 to 1983 in Research, beginning in Executive Training and rising to Director of Management Information and Research for the Batus Retail Division, parent company of Saks. She met her husband, Tom, in NYC and then moved to Atlanta in 1983, where Pam worked at The Atlanta Market Center as Director of Management Information Services. In 1987 they moved to Darien, CT, with their two children, Kate and John. They lived in Darien for thirty-three years before moving to Norwalk in 2020, where they currently live.

For the last thirty-five years, Pam has focused primarily on volunteering in the local community. She served on the Board of Directors at the Darien Advocates for Education of the Gifted (1993-1995), Board member of Middlesex Middle School Parents Organization (1993-1996), Board member of the Council of Darien School Parents (1997-1998), Treasurer of the Darien Technology Foundation (1998-2001), a volunteer at Person-To-Person in the Clothing Program, the Scholarship Program and as an Advisor in the Youth Program (2004-2009). Pam also served as a USTA Curriculum Life Skills Instructor (2009-2012), and volunteered with the Norwalk Grassroots Tennis and Education (2009 – 2014) and was the Vice President of the NGTE Board (2012 – 2014). During all this time, Pam was also actively involved with the Darien Arts Council (1987 – 2019), where she was the Co-Chair of the Dance Center Committee (1988 – 1992) and a Board member (1991 – 2019), serving as the President of the Board of Directors (2000 – 2006 and 2016 – 2019). In 2021, Pam became a Member of Impact Fairfield County, serving on the Review Committee and Database Management, which she continues to do.

Pam and Tom currently live in Norwalk and have three amazing grandchildren.