Kathy & Pat Cocherl: Generations of Giving Back

Kathy and Pat Cocherl started out with nothing, and Pat always told Kathy that if they ever got into a position to give back, they would. Pat was true to his word. After figuring out a way to quickly fix circuit boards for Panasonic, they suddenly had the money to set up and fund the Cocherl Family Foundation. The Cocherl’s and all five of their children run this philanthropic juggernaut that awards full college scholarships to children in the Blue Valley School District with mental and physical challenges. Pat, better known as “Mr. C”, has two other obsessions: Thomas Jefferson and the Christmas holidays. His office building is designed after Jefferson’s Monticello home in Charlottesville, VA, and he decorates the building every Christmas, turning the lights on Thanksgiving night and turning them off in mid-January on the same schedule as the Country Club Plaza. And if that’s not enough, all the video screens in the building run the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” on a loop throughout that same period. There are no Grinches in the Cocherl family!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.