Patrick Madison, the President of Golden
Software, Inc., has been a Golden resident for more than twenty years. After
growing up and going to school in Montana, he came to Golden in 1979, working
as a computer science instructor at the Colorado School of Mines.
Pat
co-founded Golden Software in 1983. Over the years, the Golden Software product
line has grown to include some of the most widely-used scientific graphing software
titles in the world, among them Surfer, Grapher, MapViewer, and Didger. Golden
Software has sold over 100,000 software licenses to date, and their products are
in use in over 177 countries and on all seven continents.
Golden
Software is located at 809 14th Street in downtown Golden.
Pat
has been actively involved in the Golden community for many years. His contributions
include:
- Served on the Golden Volunteer Fire Department for 8-1/2
years, four of them as an officer.
- Attended Leadership
Golden in the class of 1993/1994.
- Served on the Leadership Golden
Steering Committee in 1994/1995.
- Active in the Rotary
Club since 1990, including terms as President, Vice President, Treasurer,
and Editor of their newsletter.
- Tutored students in computer use in the
Golden public schools.
- Elected to the Golden Gate Fire Protection
District Board of Directors
| Pat is also the sculptor responsible for
some of our most popular local artwork: the two schools of trout
(one behind the Golden Hotel, and the other on Clear Creek, below Parfet
Park) and the butterflies, located at the Rotary Amphitheater, behind
the police station. Pat is the father of two grown daughters, one a public school teacher and the other a newspaper reporter.
Both daughters went through the Golden school
system. He has climbed all 54 of Colorado’s mountains over 14,000 feet and
has backpacked over 1,000 miles in the backcountry of Yellowstone National Park.
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