S E L M A , N C

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mer to participate in the new leadership training conducted by ETA State President Betty Marshall and her executive board. She and I have worked closely with our own Alpha Beta Executive Com-mittee and are look-ing for ways to im-prove our participa-tion at meetings and to make our pro-grams those that will help draw us to-

I am glad that it's finally time to invite you all back to-gether for our first meeting of the new biennium! While the overall theme for Delta Kappa Gamma through 2011 is Vision into Action, the focus of Delta Kappa Gamma's mission project continues with Going Green 24/7. I feel that it is a very appropriate

mission since I am a very green member

of the Alpha Beta Chapter. First Vice President Lorine Davis and I traveled to Golds-boro early this sum-

Mallary Barnes, daughter of Mark and Vera Barnes of Smithfield, NC, was chosen to receive the Alpha Beta Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma Schol-arship from among eleven ap-plicants throughout Johnston County. Mallary, a 2010 graduate from Smithfield-Selma High School, was the valedictorian of her class. Not only was she out-standing in academics, she was also a member of the marching band, the varsity tennis team, and served as State Chaplain

and Vice President for the YMCA Youth and Govern-ment This fall she is at-tending the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and plans to major in ele-mentary education. In her application she states, "I enjoy learning and I would like to share my passion for knowledge with my stu-dents. In addition, I have had amazing teachers who have inspired me to perform to my full potential. I would like to be this inspiration for my future students."

A Message from President Jennifer Swartz

A L P H A B E T A

C H A P T E R

Lorine Davis, 1st Vice President

Karen Creech, 2nd Vice President

Debra Avery Recording /

Corresponding

Becky Kuszmaul Treasurer

Jennifer Swartz, President

Alpha Beta Chapter Scholarship

Alpha Beta Chapter S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 0 I S S U E 1

DATES TO

REMEMBER

Apr. 29– May 1 2011

ETA State

Convention

Rocky Mount, NC

July 13 - 16

2011 Southeast Regional

Conference

Louisville, KY

July 24-28

2012 International Convention, New York,

New York

Delta Kappa Gamma International Society

P A G E 2

To this end, Lorine has coordinated a full year's worth of activities for us to enjoy! We are going to kick off the year with our first meeting at the Hinnant Family Winery on Tuesday, October 5. We will have the opportunity to participate in a wine-tasting starting at 5:30 for a $5.00 fee before the evening's meal and meeting. Participation in this pre-activity is completely voluntary, but we are hoping that you have been planning to check out the winery for some time and haven't had a good enough rea-son to follow through on that desire. Donald Bailey already has us on his calendar and will be delighting us again this year with many tasty dishes. I believe the only thing that could make me look forward to Donald's dishes more would be if he included the recipes so I could impress my family!

A large portion of the Executive Committee's work during our summer meetings focused on trying to build mentoring into the leadership of the different committees that we use to support the work of our organization.

As a green president, I am learning a great deal about our chapter and our organization. I have been reaching out to many of you and calling on your mentoring skills and knowledge base to help guide me through this biennium so that I can serve you well in this role.

A personal project that I have been developing is the construction of committee handbooks. Call-ing members to ask them to serve as committee leaders I have found that I am not the only person who is unclear of the expectations of the committees we have in place. I must thank you for saying "yes" to these leadership roles even when we were both unsure of the duties that would befall you.

Over the course of this biennium it is my goal to construct a handbook for each committee to guide Society members in their work together for the benefit of our organization and in our efforts to publish the good works that we do as a Society.

Several of our committees remain without leadership. We are all busy women with families and outside inter-ests. Our ability to perform at high levels of success in our many activities is one of the key traits that I see in all Al-pha Beta members.

I hope that you will look at the list of committees we have included in the newsletter and realize that if we all do a little work together that we can accomplish a great deal as a Society.

At the state business meeting this weekend, Betty Marshall called on us to think of ways we can publicize our par-ticipation in an organization that calls us together through our attention to excellence.

As we move toward our first meeting of the new year, please consider ways you can use your talents and gifts for the benefit of our Society.

Message from President cont.

At our October meeting the Communications Committee will be taking our pictures for the update to our red book and biogra-phy. This group has worked for the past several months to re-vise the red book to include photographs. They are also updating the biography so pull out your resume so you can help us ac-count for your most recent accomplishments. We will have a hard copy of these documents at the October meeting so that you can help us catch errors we may have overlooked.

Say Cheese!

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Tuesday

October 5, 2010

Wine Tasting - 5:30

Dinner/Business - 6:00 Winery Tour - 7:30

Hinnant Family Vineyards

826 Pine Level-Micro Pine Level, NC 27568

Renee Oliver Mary Daughtry

Ann Carper Karen Parker

Saturday

December 4, 2010

Brunch - 9:00 am Musical Entertainment

Show & Sell

First Baptist Church 411 North Fayetteville

Street Clayton, NC 27520

Ramona Cash Helen Ellerbe

Frances Warren Dorothy Driver

Tuesday

April 5, 2011

Induction Ceremony 6:00 pm

Heavy hors d’oeuvres

Four Oaks United Methodist Church

320 North Church St. Four Oaks, NC 27524

Tonya Peterson Martha Bradshaw

Eloise Bonds Maylene Sanders

Tuesday

February 1, 2011

Dinner & Speaker - 6:00 Dr. June Atkinson

NC State Superinten-dent

Benson United Method-ist Church

205 East Church Street Benson, NC 27504

Mary Ann Lee Noela Sue Woodall

Ann Parrish Debbie Woodruff

Date Time/

Program

Location Hostess Committee

Ramona Cash Helen Ellerbe

Mary Fred Daughtry Freddie Creech

Allette Hale Dorothy Driver

Ann Parrish Rose Walker

Mary Helen Sills Mary Ann Lee

Cindy Parrish Leona Parrish

Margaret Walker Laura Canady

Iris Scarboro

Lynn Ragsdale Bess Ragsdale Tucker Twisdale

Abby Salas Sybil Edwards

Terri Sessoms Maylene Sanders Thelma Harris

Sue Wood Frances Warren

Eve Creech Vivia Creech

Cindy Parrish Leona Parrish

Alpha Beta Meeting Calendar 2010-2011 P A G E 3 I S S U E 1

eBuddies

P A G E 4 Telephone Tree Jennifer Swartz 631-1657

Ramona Cash 553-7244

Edna Luper 284-2839

Mary Ann Lee 894-5514

Nancy Daughtery 934-2936

Lorine Davis 934-9590

Nancy Daughtery 934-2936

Terri Sessoms 915-5239

Becky Kuszmaul 934-5579

Bess Ragsdale 934-8069

Sybil Edwards 934-4972

Glenda Toler 553-7829

Jennifer Moore 989-7492

Margaret Walker 963-4145

Abby Salas 934-4972

Mary Nell Ferguson 989-8481

Thelma Harris 934-6768

Margaret Walker 963-4145

Maylene Sanders 934-2902

Laura Canady 963-2270

Iris Scarborough 963-3239

Tonya Peterson 894-8575

Edna Luper 284-2839

Mary Fred Daughtry 965-5575

Betty Ferrell 284-2530

Cary Lane Cockrell 284-2934

Barbara Barnes 284-4203

Cathy Cox 965-4651

Betty Ferrell 284-2530

Sue Wood 965-9228

Dorothy Driver 269-8732

Sandra Boyette 284-2108

Peggy Batten 284-2729

Allette Hale 365-5700

Mary Ann Lee 894-5514

Joyce Matthews 894-2690

Ann Parrish 894-5198

Eloise Bonds 894-4274

Rose Walker 894-5114

Mary Helen Sills 894-4226

Mary Fred Daughtry 965-5575

Frances Warren 965-8511

Janice White 965-2852

Allison Redinger 661-1369

Renee Oliver 631-3816

Freddie Creech 965-3804

Frances Warren 965-8511

Tucker Twisdale 934-4251

Leona Parrish 934-4708

Cynthia Parrish 934-4708

Olive Cooke 934-3380

Pama Kirby 284-2872

Tucker Twisdale 934-4251

Debra Avery 965-6768

Dorothy Harris 359-2040

Lynn Ragsdale 934-6377

Mary Helen Wyatt 894-5462

Joyce Matthews 894-2690

Susan Auman 894-8260

Sistie Wells 894-3903

Noela Woodall 894-4511

Camille Boone 934-3286

Karen Hicks 894-8128

Terri Sessoms 915-5239

Jean Simmons 934-2795

Debbie Woodruff 934-3705

Ann Carper 553-6236

Karen Creech 934-0189

Martha Bradshaw 894-8184

Jennifer Moore 989-7492

Cynthia Toudle 553-4291

Karen Parker 989-6626

Glenda Hales 910-256-0239

Eve Creech 934-3939

Vivia Creech 934-8437

Committee Chairman Members

Biography & Yearbook Mary Helen Sills Karen Creech Lorine Davis

Edna Luper

Communications Karen Creech Terri Sessoms Margaret Walker

Finance Cary Lane Cockrell Debra Avery Becky Kuszmaul

Noela Sue Woodall

Literacy/Numeracy Jenny Moore Dorothy Harris Sue Wood

Mary Helen Wyatt

Membership Susan Auman Karen Hicks Joyce Matthews

Helen Ellerbe Frances Warren

Music Karen Parker Camille Boone Olive Cooke

Cynthia Parrish

Necrology Mary Daughtry Ann Parrish Jean Simmons

Janice White Sistie Wells

Nominations Allette Hale Cathy Cox Denise Luper

Personal Growth & Services Renee Oliver Martha Bradshaw Maylene Sanders

Eloise Bonds Laura Faye Canady

Professional Affairs Peggy Batten Eve Creech Betty Ferrell

Tucker Twisdale

Remembrances Sybil Edwards Ramona Cash Freddie Creech

Mary Ann Lee

Research Ann Carper & Debbie Woodruff

Dorothy Driver

Mary Sauls

Cynthia Toudle

Scholarship Abby Salas Ramona Cash Lorine Davis

Mary Nell Ferguson

Lynn Ragsdale Jennifer Swartz

Janice White

Scrapbook Glenda Toler Allison Redinger Kelli Sanderford

World Fellowship/ US Forum –Legislation

Lynn Ragsdale Tonya Peterson Leona Parrish Rose Walker

Alpha Beta Committees 2010-2011 P A G E 5 I S S U E 1

August September October

Debbie Woodruff -1 Kelli Sanderford –2 Glenda Toler –4

Cynthia Toudle –5 Mary Nell Ferguson –4 Karen Creech –22

Iris Scarborough –9 Ramona Cash-5 Mary Ann Lee –22

Mary Fred Daughtry –25 Dorothy Driver –6 Terri Sessoms –25

Nancy Daughtery –29 Becky Kuszmaul –11

Tonya Peterson –30 Allison Redinger –22

Sistie Wells –22

Mary Helen Wyatt –23

Laura Faye Canady –24

Betty Ferrell –28

Aug.– Oct. Birthdays Happy Birthday

A special “Birthday Wish” from your Alpha Beta Sisters

Alpha Beta Chapter

Organized April 19, 1952

The Delta

Kappa Gamma

Society Interna-

tional promotes

professional and personal

growth of women educators

and excellence in education.

Purpose and Mission

TO UNITE women educators of the world in a genuine spiritual fellowship.

TO HONOR women who have given or who evidence a potential for dis-tinctive service in any field of education.

TO ADVANCE the professional interest and position of women in educa-tion.

TO INITIATE, ENDORSE, AND SUPPORT desirable legislation or other suitable endeavors in the interests of education and of women educa-tors.

TO ENDOW scholarships to aid outstanding women educators in pursuing graduate study and to grant fellowships to women educators from other countries.

TO STIMULATE the personal and professional growth of members and to encourage their participation in appropriate programs of action.

TO INFORM the members of current economic, social, political, and educa-

tional issues so that they may participate effectively in a world society.