Inside this issue:

Nadine’s News 2

In Memoriam 2

Pictures 4

Money Talks 5

Committees 6

Members 7

Important Dates 8

Volume 67, Issue 2

MISSOURI, DELTA STATE

Summer 2015

Dyane Smokor-

owski, speaker for the “Celebrating Our Milestones” birthday luncheon, is the 2013 Kansas Teach-er of the Year and

currently serves as an Instructional Technology Coach. Smokorowski believes in a project-based, student-centered classroom that helps students build skills in communication, planning, re-search and project implementation. She wants students to develop a love for literature, communication and technology, but also to under-stand how to use that love and pas-sion to advance their own future, as well as that of their community.

Muriel O’Tuel, Ph.D., Present/Past State Organization Presidents’ Luncheon speaker, has motivat-ed a variety of audi-ences including busi-

ness, college, school, church, and civic organizations. She inspires her listeners to leave positive foot-prints on the hearts of others. She promotes high ethical standards from a caring heart and long tradi-tion of family values. O’Tuel has authored Footprints on the Heart: The Caring Path to Prosper-

ity, a personal and professional

growth book. Currently she is writ-ing Heartprints are Forever, a book

about aging, generational differ-ences, and leaving a positive legacy that lives forever

Maureen Clem-

mons, president of Transformations, an innovation and change manage-ment consulting practice in Los An-geles, is the keynote speaker for Celebrating the Possibilities Third General Session. Her work is the subject of a History Channel docu-mentary. In her session, “Wind, Pyramids and Obelisks: Harness-ing the Wind to Build the Mega-liths of Antiquity,” Clemmons re-counts her story of developing an innovative new theory on the con-struction of the pyramids and her journey in translating her concept into reality. Clemmons’ story is one of perse-verance in the face of skepticism, the importance of innovative thought and the translation of thought into action with whatever resources are available.

Justin W. Patchin, Ph.D., will speak at the Celebrating Educa-tional Excellence Second General Session. (continued on page 3)

SW Regional Speakers Offer “Food for Thought”

The

Delta Kappa

Gamma

Society

International

promotes

professional and

personal growth

of

women

educators and

excellence

in education.

Please join us for an Ah-some

Southwest Regional Conference

in Kansas, the land of Ahs!

July 22-25, 2015 Wichita, Kansas Hyatt Regency Hotel

Ah-some fellowship! Ah-some speakers!

Ah-some workshops! Ah-some activities!

The registration form is attached to this issue of the Deltagrams

and is on the International website. Register Today!!

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State Officers

2013-2015 Nadine Horner, President

Cay Sergent, 1st Vice President

Karen Evans, 2nd Vice President

Marty Tidd, Recording Secretary

Ginny Baumann, Exec. Secretary/

Treasurer

Deltagrams is published four times a year

online at

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News items should be sent to:

Jamie Erwin,

Deltagrams Editor

112 Lisa Avenue, Lathrop, MO 64465

816-528-6986, deltagrams.mo@gmail.com

Delta Kappa Gamma Society International,

P.O. Box 1589, Austin, TX 78767-1589

888-768-4685

Notes from Nadine It is with mixed emo-tions that I write my final News from Na-dine. I have had such a range of emotions dur-ing the past two years that it is difficult to know where to begin. First of all, I am leav-ing with a sense of loss over the many chapters that have dissolved, but I am happy that we re-tained some of the

members. We must continue to work on increasing our membership. Let’s work together to find ways to inter-est and motivate our young teachers to join us. I am leaving with a sense of pride in our state. So many people have worked together to make Delta State suc-cessful. The officers, committee members and Executive

Board have worked extra hard to complete the Society’s work between conventions. By diligently doing their work, the business at Convention was not so difficult or long. The Area Conferences highlighted the work of so many people working together. Thank you to everyone who has worked so hard during the last two years. Most of all, the greatest emotion is gratitude: gratitude that you have allowed me to be your president for the past two years, gratitude for the new friends that I have made, gratitude for all the cooperation I have received, gratitude for all the hard work from committees and in-dividuals to make Delta State successful, gratitude for all the many invitations to visit chapters, councils, etc. I cannot say “Thank you” enough to let each of you know how much you are appreciated. Please continue to work with Cay as you have with me to make 2015-2017 a successful biennium. God bless you all. -Nadine

In Memoriam Marguerite Hansen October 31, 2014 Alpha Omega

Grace Greenley December 21, 2014 Delta

Jeanne Crews January 11, 2015 Alpha Sigma

Doris Rudicel January 20, 2015 Beta Zeta

Sharon Hardecke March 30, 2015 Alpha Gamma

Geneva Lawyer March 11, 2015 Alpha Tau

Ann Marguerite Williams April 6, 2015 Sigma

*For names to be printed in the Deltagrams , “Report of Death of a Member Form 6” must be sent in to Delta State Membership Chair, Ka-

ren Evans, evans8185@sbcglobal.net , 1301 Melvin Drive, Festus, MO 63028

Golden Anniversary Sales

Please help support the Golden Anniversary Funds by pur-

chasing DKG items!

Items can be mailed to your home (postage will be added to

the cost).

Call or email Vicki Cassady 417-438-6213

cvcassady@sofnet.com

mailto:evans8185@sbcglobal.nettel:417-438-6213mailto:cvcassady@sofnet.com

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THAT Award Alpha Alpha Alpha Alpha Iota Alpha Psi Alpha Rho Alpha Tau Alpha Theta Alpha Upsilon Beta Eta Beta Gamma Beta Omega Beta Pi Beta Rho Beta Tau Delta Eta Gamma Kappa Gamma Tau Gamma Xi Lambda Mu Nu Pi Sigma Tau Theta

April 22, 2015

Dear Missouri State:

Thank you for a most wonderful DKG experience at your ‘spicey’ 82nd State Convention in Inde-

pendence, Missouri. I was given a warm smiley welcome everywhere I went:

-from Cindy picking me up at the airport,

-to a shopping experience with Diana, your Convention Coordinator,

-to dinner meeting with past presidents,

-to the breakfast buffet and general meeting with a welcome from the

Mayor Eileen Weir of Independence City,

-to the 82nd birthday luncheon and state achievement award to

Sue Groves,

-to the inspirational message from Jennifer Webb urging us to be stylish

as we take care of ourselves,

-to the wonderful music “Forward Moving Ever” by Darlene Helman,

-to the great people I met in my workshop (some of whom are re-

directing not re-tiring),

-to the small but beautiful choir presentations directed by Jeannae and

accompanied by Terre,

-to the moving song “This is Where I belong” by the talented Terre

McPheeters,

-to Elinor Etterling’s words of wisdom and

-to the voices raised in singing “As We Leave this Place” and the DKG song.

If you weren’t there I am sorry it didn’t fit in with your schedule. This was a Convention not to be

missed. I am grateful I could be a part of it.

As Area Representative Canada, I encourage you to “SHOW UP” to these wonderfully educational,

inspirational and exhilarating events to “SPICE UP” your life. You will never be the same.

I am convinced that your new president, Cay Sergent, with the assistance from all of you, will carry

on the excellent job Nadine Horner has done in the past two years.

I encourage you to continue to be inspired in your chapters, region and State events. Be willing to

share your inspiration with others to strengthen your society and offer them the wonderful experiences

that continue to ignite our spirits and keep us ‘forward moving ever’!

Hats off (or fascinators) to all of you who contributed to making this 2015 Convention an outstanding

event full of love, learning and levitation!!

Sincerely,

Donna-Faye Madhosingh

Area Representative Canada

dmadhosingh@Yahoo.com

(continued from page 1) Dr. Patchin is a professor of Criminal Justice at the Uni-versity of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. For over a decade he has been exploring the intersection of teens and technology, with particular focus on cyberbullying, social networking, and sexting. He has

travelled the U.S. and abroad training educators, coun-

selors, law enforcement officers, parents, and youth on how to prevent the misuse of technology. His most re-cent book, Words Wound: Delete Cyberbullying and Make

Kindness Go Viral was written to help teens navigate

online problems. He has presented at the White House and the FBI Academy. (Used with permission from dkg.org.)

mailto:dmadhosingh@Yahoo.com

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Memories from Convention

Order of the Rose Statistics

The “Order of the Rose” is given to chapters that maintain and/or increase membership. It is also given to chapter for initiating a member from an educational environment not previously in the chapter. What that means is chapters should plan this summer to recruit and maintain membership.

Year Chapters Receiv-

ing an

“Order of the

Rose”

2010 6

2011 6

2012 17

2013 14

2014 16

2015 23

Left: Marguerite Burns, Dr. Peggy George, and Mary Ann Mordecai. Bottom: President Nadine Horner with her present from Delta State.

Above: Bev Teri helps Marty Tidd with her hat for the Pres-idents’ Banquet on Saturday.

Left: Delta State President-Elect Cay Sergent installs Karen Evans as 1st Vice President. Right: Interna-tional Representative Don-na-Faye Madhosingh dur-ing installation.

Above: Past State Presidents Elinor Etterling and Bev Teri discuss some-thing important. Right: Judy Nees at the registration table waiting for conven-tion attendees to pick up their creden-tials.

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On May 11, 1933 twelve women educators were initiated into The Delta Kappa Gamma Society and founded Delta State Missouri at the Tiger Hotel in Columbia. Eleven ad-ditional women were initiated on May 27. Miss Ethel Reed, Delta State Founder, served for 10 years as the first treasurer of Delta State Mis-souri from May 11, 1933 until June 30, 1944. Miss Reed’s treasurer’s records showed that twelve members had lunch on May 11 for $9.00, which is $0.75 per person. Nine members had lunch on September 20 for a cost of $6.75, plus the waiter’s tip of $0.90, roses for $1.50, a notary’s fee of $1.00, and $1.00 for luncheon place cards. On November 2, 1933 Kathryn Helm was the first member to pur-chase a Delta Kappa Gamma Socie-ty lifetime membership for $40.00, which was paid in four installments. Other interesting facts from 1933

were that the gold initiate candle-holders cost $0.02 each, the Delta Kappa Gamma Song books were $0.15 each, and the treasurer’s cash record book cost $1.25. The next treasurer of Delta State was Merea Williams from Columbia. Merea served Missouri members for 43 years until 1986. The office of Ex-ecutive Secretary was created and combined with the job of treasurer in November 1965. Therefore, Merea was the first woman to serve the combined position of Executive Sec-retary/Treasurer for Delta State. Lorine Miner from Joplin was hired and began working as Executive Sec-retary/Treasurer on July 1, 1986 af-ter a year’s training with Merea Wil-liams. Lorine’s appointment was for a four-year term, with the under-standing that, upon a satisfactory review of her work, she could contin-ue in the position until she wished to retire. However, Beverly Turk, Chairman of the Delta State Person-

nel Committee sadly announced that the position of Executive Secretary/Treasurer was open for applications following the death of Lorine Miner on August 6, 1987. The Delta State Personnel Commit-tee recommended Kathleen Grim from Joplin to serve as the next Ex-ecutive Secretary/Treasurer from 1987 until 1998. At the time Kath-leen was hired, she worked as an As-sistant Professor in the School of Business at Missouri Southern State College. She served as Executive Secretary/Treasurer until her health forced her to retire from the position in 1998. Upon the resignation of Kathleen Grim, Sharon Early from Lone Jack was hired as the Executive Secretar-y/Treasurer. Sharon taught sixth grade for five years and was a library media specialist for twenty years be-fore becoming the library media co-ordinator and specialist for the Lee’s (continued on page 9)

History of the Delta State Executive Secretary/Treasurer Office

Money Talks Delta State ends the 2014-2015-membership year with 1,499 Active members, 113 Reserve members and 44 Initiates. In addition to pro-cessing the dues and fees for all the members, the chapter treasurers are preparing to close the financial rec-ords on June 30. They will complete and send the Annual Chapter Finan-cial Report Form 15 by July 15 to the state treasurer. The treasurers will also be filing the IRS Form 990N electronic postcards for their chapters between July 1 and No-vember 15 and sending copies of the confirmations to the state treasurer. The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International membership forms and rosters will be mailed to chapter

treasurers in August. Membership

dues remain unchanged for 2015-2016. The goal is to have 100% of

chapters submitting dues by Novem-ber 10 to the state treasurer. It has been a great honor to serve in the position of Executive Secre-tary/Treasurer for Delta State the past eleven years. It has been very rewarding working with professional women with so many talents, skills and abilities. Thank you for all your support and cooperation. I have the greatest gratitude to have been in this position, and I am very happy! It is my pleasure to introduce Pau-lette Fischer (Tau) as the next Exec-utive Secretary/Treasurer of Delta State. She has 39 years of experience in education, teaching all ages from pre-Kindergarten through adults. Currently, Paulette is teaching Adult ESL in California and Jefferson City. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Uni-

versity of Central Missouri. Paulette was initiated into Tau Chapter in 1987, served as chapter president in the 1992-94 biennium and has held the position of chapter treasurer since 2002. If you visit Paulette in her home in California, you will most likely find her in her garden or her kitchen. Paulette has been in training for the job for the past eight months. Pau-lette will attend the DKG Southwest Regional Conference from July 21-25 in Wichita for International train-ing along with the President Cay Sergent. Please welcome Paulette and give her your support and loyal-ty. Paulette can be contacted at Del-taMoSecTreasurer@gmail.com after July 1. -Ginny Baumann

mailto:DeltaMoSecTreasurer@gmail.commailto:DeltaMoSecTreasurer@gmail.com

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Delta State Committees Add Spice to Members’ Lives Achievement Awards

Individual Achievement Award The Achievement Award commit-tee is proud to announce Sue Groves, Epsilon is the recipient of the Individual Achievement Award. Sue served as 1st and 2nd Vice Presi-dent, and president for Delta State. She chaired Delta State Finance, Strategic Action Plan, and Leader-ship Development. She attended state planning meetings, Area confer-ences, State workshops, State con-ventions (15), Southwest Regional Conference (5), and International Conventions (4).

Chapter Achievement Award Twenty-three chapters submitted record sheets to the Achievement Committee. Congratulations to the twenty chap-ters who reached a lofty goal!

Three Star Award:

Chapter, President

Lambda , Babe Roy and Margaret Szucs Alpha Alpha, Della Osgood Alpha Sigma, Jessica Wolbert Beta Eta, Lucy Gilbert Beta Rho, Rose Kreitler Gamma Rho, E Jane Bruns and Pau-la Reagan Gamma Phi, Brenda Jarrett

Five Star Award:

Chapter, President Epsilon, Cindy Bylander Mu, Teresa Begemann Nu, Jana Siefkas Xi, Barbara Shephard Tau, Arlene Broeker Alpha Theta, Gloria Juedemann Alpha Iota, Wilma Harpole Alpha Rho, Diana Ackley Alpha Tau, Jenny Oglesbee Alpha Upsilon, Victoria Jones Alpha Psi, Christine Butler Beta Theta, Alta Kopetzky and Mary Weber Beta Tau, Sharon (Cherie) Smith Gamma Kappa, Judy Parmentier and Ruth Ann Smith

Change in Delta State Chapter

Achievement Award Record Sheet The committee emailed, met, and discussed a change in the Chapter Achievement Award Record Sheet #3 on the sheet read: “Chapter initi-ates or reclaims one or more active members.” Chapters were eliminated at this point even if they had achieved well over the 3500 points for a five star chapter. The committee felt that active chap-ters who maintained their member-ship but did not “initiate or reclaim” should not be penalized. The com-mittee met with President Horner and drafted the motion that was pre-sented and passed on the floor at the business meeting. #3 now reads: Chapter initiates or

reclaims one or more members or retains 100% of its active member-ship. -Judy Stanford, Chair

Bylaws Congratulations to the 33 Chapters that have approved Chapter Rules on file with Delta State! The committee has an additional 5 Chapters in pending status awaiting minimal changes for approval. There are 18 chapters that have not submitted their Chapter Rules as of this date. As the committee prepares to con-clude the biennium, help us to in-crease our approval percentage. -Sharon Jones, Chair

Professional Affairs The Professional Affairs Committee presented fourteen Key Woman Ed-ucator Awards this year at the Delta State Convention: Epsilon--Ann White, Springfield Eta--Connie Epperson, Fulton Theta--Kim Amsden, Farmington Mu--Carol Wright, Clinton Pi--Barbara Whitworth, St. Louis Tau--Nancy Lewis, California Phi--Paula Erdel, Independence Alpha Theta--Jane Leimkuehler,

Owensville Alpha Iota--Brenda Baynes, Festus Alpha Rho--Claudette M. Scott-Rogers, Kansas City Alpha Upsilon--Michaela Baker, Lib-erty Alpha Psi--Michelle Acheson, Hollis-ter Gamma Kappa--Dinah Sudholt, Un-ion Gamma Phi--Leslie Appleton, Sum-mersville Each chapter may choose one member per year to receive the Key Woman Educator Award. This is NOT a competition, but a recogni-tion for a member's outstanding pro-fessional collaboration, her support given early career educators, or the educational program developed or

piloted to improve student achieve-ment. Each chapter is encouraged to consider honoring one of your mem-bers for the 2016 Key Woman Edu-cator Recognition Award. The forms are available on the Delta State website and must be submitted by March 1. The Professional Affairs Committee encourages each of you to stay alert-ed to state legislation, especially those issues dealing with education. -Paula Thompson, Chair

Leadership Development Registration forms are now availa-ble for the Leadership Seminar to be held in Jefferson City on June 27 Please contact Sue Groves, Leader-ship Chair for the form if your chap-ter president does not have one. It is an opportunity not to be missed! Dr. Lulu Lopez will be the presenter at this seminar. She has been a teacher

with over 40 years of experience, principal, director of instructional planning and development, and has co-authored “Educating the Heart, Lessons to Build Respect and Re-sponsibility”. Plan to attend to learn from this energetic and enthusiastic speaker.

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More Committee News Mark your calendars for July 22-25 to attend the Southwest Regional Conference in Wichita, Kansas. Just imagine what fantastic opportu-nities await us there! Registration can be found on the DKG website. The State Convention held on April 10-11 in Independence, MO embraced us with friends, good food, great workshops, splendid speakers, and fantastic style! We left feeling full (both of food and promise), content, and reenergized to lead our chapters in positive ways. -Terri Gillette, SW

Membership Below are a few suggestions to help ensure that every member feels val-ued.

Mentor new teachers

Encourage each member

Meet and greet at every meeting

Brag about each member

Engage each member

Reorientation reminds members why they joined DKG

Schedule time for social interaction

Honor each member in some way

Invite prospective members to “sample” a meeting

Provide name tags at each meeting -Ruth Cobb

Communications The Communications Committee spent the spring months judging chapter newsletters for the April state convention. As in the past years, each chapter was to submit four newsletters from March 2014 to March 2015 to qualify for one of the two newsletters awards. The awards were: Best Content –

promotes personal and professional growth and gives relevant infor-mation to members. Best Graphic

Design – effective layout appropriate

and pleasing graphics, effective use of shading and/or color, identifica-tion of editor and means of contact,

complete masthead – newsletter ti-tle, volume #, issue #, month, year, chapter name, use of symbol and society graphics, and artistic design. The winners for Spring 2015 Delta State Convention are:

Best Content Second Place – Mu and Beta Rho (tie) First Place – Alpha Upsilon

Best Graphic Design First Place – Delta and Tau (tie)

Best Content and Graphic Design Second Place – Beta Tau First Place – Beta and Epsilon (tie)

Best Website Epsilon

Nominations A big thank you to the women who attended the Delta State Convention

Saturday morning business meeting. Your vote for the officers of 2015-17 was important. The officers for the coming biennium are: President: Cay Sergent First Vice-President: Karen Evans Second Vice-President: Marty Tidd Secretary: Jana Siefkas Personnel Committee: Teresa Begemann and Sharon Jones Nominations Committee: Paulette Baker and Wilma Harpole Thank you for serving Delta State in the coming biennium! -Teresa Begemann, Chair

Scholarship The Executive Board of Delta State approved the committee’s recom-mendation for the awarding of two $1000 Bradford Grants-in-Aid. The

first recipient is Skylar Rambo, an elementary education major at Mis-souri State University. Skylar is from Nixa and is the niece of Faye Peters, Past President of Delta State and was recommended by Alpha Tau Chapter. Skylar has effectively balanced a full work schedule with a full class load. As a child Skylar taught her “invisible dolls and stu-

dents” lessons and one Christmas asked for an overhead projector to use with them. Skylar has demon-strated a strong work ethic and per-sonality, both qualities important for a teacher. The second recipient for the Brad-

ford Grant-in-Aid is Megan

Humphrey, a high school English major at Lincoln University. Megan is from Eldon and was recommend-ed by DKG member Sharon Buster and Tau Chapter. A fellow in the University of Missouri, St Louis Sue Shear Institute for Women in Public Life, Megan has shown a special interest in working with youth in diverse places such as Taiwan, Haiti and Cincinnati. She received the Award of Academic Excellence for a 4.0 GPA in 2012-2014. The Bradford is named for Eva and Louise Bradford who were born in Phelps County and spent their teaching careers there and later in Ritenour and Berkeley School Dis-tricts in St Louis County. Both sis-ters were charter members of PI Chapter in St Louis. In their memory, Louise Edscorn, their niece, who wanted to recognize them and support women educators,

set up the Bradford. Louise was an honorary member of Delta State and participated in Pi Chapter activities during her lifetime. She died in 2007 but the fund which was started in 1988, continues to provide grants to outstanding future young women educators. There were no applications for the three state scholarships for the sec-ond year in a row. Chapter leaders and members are encouraged to seek qualified members for these available scholarships which are supported by chapter dues. Check the DKG website for information on all available scholarships, Bradford Grants-in-Aid and application forms.-Grace Weber

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Dr. Frances Flanagan has been a

member of Kappa Chapter for over

56 years, but her teaching career be-gan long before that. How long? World War I was still known as the war to end all wars. Franklin Roosevelt was president., and women had only been voting for about a decade. As Dr. Flanagan nears her 100th birthday she readily admits, “My world was very different than the world today.” Young Frances Flanagan faced few career choices as she prepared to en-ter the working world after graduat-ing from high school in Easton, MO. Professional women were basically either nurses or teachers. With help from her aunts, Frances was able to attend St. Joseph Junior College. After graduating, she was hired as a cadet teacher at Sherwood Elemen-tary in St. Joseph. Her job included making copies and running errands. She also served as a substitute when a teacher was out ill. When a Sherwood teacher became

blind, Frances was hired for her first teaching position in a classroom. She remembers fondly the three years she taught 1st grade at Sherwood. Frances was then transferred to Humbolt, where she taught for over 20 years. During this time, Frances got her undergraduate degree at Mt. St. Scholastica (today, Benedictine Col-lege) and later got both her Masters in English and her Doctorate. Frances became Dr. Flanagan in the early 50’s. One of her proudest memories is of writing an article about Laura Ingalls Wilder that was published in a professional maga-zine. She says it was lucky timing, because she had researched Mrs. Wilder and written her article right

before Mrs. Wilder’s death. She felt that her timing was perfect, because she had gotten the story before her competition had even thought of it. Her Kappa sisters feel it may have had more to do with her writing tal-ent. Dr. Flanagan began teaching at

Missouri Western Junior College, her alma mater, in the early 1960’s. In fact, Dr. Flanagan was an English professor when it became Missouri Western College in 1969. She retired from the college in the early 80’s. Kappa Chapter treasures Dr. Frances Flanagan’s dedication to the chapter and wants to honor her and her accomplishments as she cele-brates her first 100 years on May 16, 2015!

Sigma Chapter recently bought and

gave books to Community Helping Ministry in Bridgeton, MO to be put in Easter baskets for children ages 2 to 12. Thirty-four baskets were given out to families. Community Helping Ministry is a not-for-profit communi-ty wide partnership of churches, businesses, service clubs, organiza-tion and individuals working togeth-er to serve the needs of families with limited resources in time of financial crisis. It serves residents of the Pat-tonville School District in St. Louis County.

Delta State Chapters and Members Shine Brightly

The International Administrative Board has approved the employment of Sandra Smith Bull as Executive Di-rector, effective September 1, 2015. Bull has served the Society as Interim Executive Director, 2014-2015, Inter-im Membership Services Administrator, 2010-2011; Ex-ecutive Coordinator, 2003-2007; and as the Business Services Administrator, 1998-2003. She has received the International Achievement Award, Lambda Iota Chap-ter Achievement Award and the Alpha State Organiza-tion Achievement Award. Bull is a graduate of the first Texas Leadership Management Seminar and is an expe-rienced presenter. She has held most offices in her chap-

ter, served as Texas area coordinator, corresponding secretary, served as chair for the nominations and mem-bership committees and been a member of many state organization committees.

In addition to being a graduate of the 1999 Leadership Management Seminar, Bull has served on the Interna-tional Leadership Development Committee as regional representative and as chair of the International Arts & Humanities Jury. Bull is a familiar face throughout the organization. She takes on roles of leadership where she is needed and brings insight and experience to her new position. A University of Texas graduate, Bull earned a B.S. in Education and a Masters of Library Science. She has served the university community as an adjunct lecturer and worked in Austin Independent Schools during her

educational career as a librarian and English teacher. She continues learning in her personal life, with a certifi-cation for the Spiritual Formation Program and the Contemplative Leadership Program.

International Names New Executive Director

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Do you need some inspiration for a program idea? Are you promoting Schools for Africa and need the facts? Do you have questions about T.H.A.T.? There are several websites with valuable resources for ideas and information and they are only a click away. Below is a list to help you begin the search.

https://www.dkg.org/category/committee/educational-excellence - The International Educational Excellence Committee has a page on the DKG International web site that provides a wealth of resources about pro-grams and projects.

https://www.youtube.com/user/DKGAustin - International maintains a YouTube channel where you can

find video clip of events from International convention and other resources.

https://www.facebook.com/dkgorg - Visit the Facebook page for current happenings in DKG.

https://www.pinterest.com/DKGSI - The DKG board has hundreds (maybe more) of pins to some creative and great ideas.

https://www.dkg.org/websites - Here is a list of links to many state organizations. Browsing through these

links you will see new ideas and perhaps, find something you can use in your chapter.

http://www.dkgmissouri.com/ - Our own Delta State (Missouri) web site is a great source of information

about our chapters and state organization with links to other resources. These links will start you on your way to some interesting and dynamic ideas. Plan to share what you find with your chapter members.

-Cay Sergent

Program Ideas

Save the Date

Saturday, August 15, 2015

Biennial Planning Meeting for

Delta State

Details will follow.

For state officers, past state presidents, and all committee members. Inn At Grand Glaize, Osage Beach

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ADDRESS WWW .DKGMISSOURI .C OM

Deadline for the next

Deltagrams:

August 1 for the Fall (September) issue

Important Dates

2015 Southwest Regional Conference July 22-25, Hyatt Regency Wichita, Wichita, KS

2016 International Convention July 5-9, Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center,

Nashville, TN

2017 Delta State Convention

TBA

2017 Southwest Regional Conference, TBA—Hawaii

Summit School District. Sharon served as Executive Secretary/Treasurer for six years until she re-signed in 2004. Virginia Baumann from Springfield served Delta State as Executive Sec-retary/Treasurer from July 2004 un-til June 30, 2015. Virginia taught calculus, math analysis and business mathematics in the Hickman Mills School District and the Springfield

School District from where she re-tired. During her tenure the days of “cash books” and handwritten en-tries in the financial records of Delta State changed to computer programs and spreadsheets to electronically transmit membership and financial reports to DKG Society Headquar-ters in Austin and to Delta State of-ficers and members. On July 1, 2015 Paulette Fischer

from California,

Missouri commences her position as the seventh Executive Secretary/Treasurer for Delta State in 81 years. Paulette has 39 years of experience in education, teaching all ages pre-K through adults. Currently she is teaching Adult ESL classes. She has served as the Tau Chapter treasurer for the past 13 years and has been in training for the state position for the past eight months.

History of the Executive Secretary/Treasurer Office (Cont.)

Above: Donna-Faye Madhosingh, International Representa-tive, with Delta State President Nadine Horner and Nadine’s daughter, Wilma Harpole, member of Alpha Iota Chapter.

Middle: Sue Groves, this year’s Delta State Individual Award Winner.

Right: Vick Cassady, Golden Anniversary Chair, congratu-lates Ginny Baumann on her retirement from the Executive Secretary/Treasurer position.