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When lifelong Garden Grove resident Pat Halberstadt left home to attend college she knew what she wanted to accomplish: a degree and teaching credential so she could come back home and teach. She almost made it. Pat earned her degree and credential, returned home, but decided to “try something a little different,” accepting a one-year stint as director of the local Girls Club. That was many years ago, and she has yet to enter a classroom to teach.