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Inside this issue:
Cay’s Corner 2
In Memoriam 2
Focus on Finance 4
Obituary 4
Committees 5
Links 8
New Members 8
Volume 67, Issue 3
MISSOURI, DELTA STATE
Fall 2015
The Southwest Regional Confer-ence in Wichita, Kansas, July 22-25, 2015 was a tremendous suc-cess. International President Dr. Lyn Babb Schmid, Pennsylvania, selected "85 Years and Beyond: Advancing Key Women Educators for Life" for her biennial theme. Southwest Regional Director Beth Schieber, Oklahoma, also provided her leadership skills for the confer-ence. Opening night provided an op-portunity for attendees to "Take a Bite Out of Kansas" and experi-ence Kansas-based foods and learn about the host state. During the conference there were break-out sessions by DKG members and others. Keynote speakers inspired and educated members. Speakers included: Dr. Justin Patchin, "Bullying Beyond the Schoolyard;" Dr. Maureen Clemmons, "Wind, Pyramids and Obelisks: Harness-ing the Wind to Build the Mega-liths of Antiquity;" and Dyane Smokorowski, "Keeping It Real for Kids." Other events included an Info-Fair sponsored by International committees, a Market Place for
shopping, and recognitions of out-standing service through the awarding of the International Achievement Award and media awards. The Educator's Book Award, It's Complicated: the social
lives of networked teens by Danah
Boyd, was also announced. Prior to the conference, state or-ganization leaders participated in training. Attendees from Missouri for the training were Cay Sergent (Delta State President), Karen Ev-ans (First Vice President), Marty Tidd (Second Vice President), Pau-la Fischer, (Executive Secretary-Treasurer), and Jamie Erwin (Deltagrams editor and webmas-ter). Twenty-three members from Missouri attended the conference. The Southwest Region is a di-verse region, composed of mem-bers from seven countries and twenty-two state organizations. The countries include the United States, Mexico, El Salvador, Gua-temala, Costa Rica, Panama, Ja-
pan. The next Southwest Regional Conference will be held in Hawaii in 2017. -Cay Sergent, Delta State President
Wichita, KS Hosts SW Regional
The
Delta Kappa
Gamma
Society
International
promotes
professional and
personal growth
of
women
educators and
excellence
in education.
Past State President Passes Betty Kinser, Delta State President 2003-2005, passed away on May 24, 2015. Betty was initiated into Epsilon Chapter in 1989. In 1994, she became Deltagrams Editor and served in that position for seven years. She was the first editor to use color in the Deltagrams. She then served as Delta State’s First Vice President and then President. After her term as President, she served as Finance Chair. Betty served Delta State and Epsilon chapter on many committees as well. A complete obituary appears on page 4 of this issue. Betty Kinser
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State Officers
2013-2015 Cay Sergent, President
Karen Evans, 1st Vice President
Marty Tidd, 2nd Vice President
Jana Siefkas, Recording Secretary
Paulette Fischer, Exec. Secretary/
Treasurer
Deltagrams is published four times a year
online at
http://www.dkgmissouri.com/
News items should be sent to:
Jamie Erwin,
Deltagrams Editor
112 Lisa Avenue, Lathrop, MO 64465
816-528-6986, [email protected]
Delta Kappa Gamma Society International,
P.O. Box 1589, Austin, TX 78767-1589
888-768-4685
Cay’s Corner I am excited to be your Delta State (Missouri) presi-dent! I am excited to be a DKG member! I am excited to be working with the creative and enthusiastic mem-bers of Delta State (Missouri)! We really do have a great group of members. I look forward working with each of you. In this first column I would like to introduce myself. I live in rural Missouri in a house that is my husband’s great grandmother’s which is over 100 years old. Of necessity through the years, I have learned to operate power tools, tear down walls, and put them back up. My grandmother was a skilled carpenter, but I am afraid that skilled is not a world that applies to me yet. I have three children, three grandchildren, and three dogs. My husband is a retired teacher so we call education the "family vocation". My educational experience includes being an English teacher, librarian, and technology di-rector. If I have spare time, I enjoy reading, attending auctions, and traveling. Some of my favorite travels have been mission trips to Russia, Venezuela, and Costa
Rica. Of course, visiting my grandchildren is always a highlight. Honoring our heritage . . . Engaging our future is my biennial theme. As we look at the phenomenal history of DKG, we can be amazed at the foresight and work of our founders. They were twelve women who deter-mined that women should be recognized and promoted for their value and hard work in their educational ca-reers. They formed DKG to provide that opportunity of for all women educators. While our world may have
changed since 1929, we are still commit-ted to promoting the personal and professional devel-opment of women educators. Plan to join me at the state and chapter level to make a difference in the lives of women educators during these next two year and beyond. Throughout the 2015-2017 biennium, I look forward to meeting many of you and visiting your chapters. Please contact me if you would like to have me visit a chapter or council meeting. Also, should you have questions please contact me. Did you ever need to bake cookies and had almost no time?
Try this recipe:
Chocolate Chip Cookies 1 2-layer package white cake mix ¾ cup oil 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips 1 egg Combine the cake mix, oil, chocolate chips and egg in a bowl and mix well. Shape into small balls and place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 6 to 8 minutes.
Betty T. Kinser May 24, 2015
Epsilon Chapter
Linda L. Reynolds June 19, 2015 Epsilon Chapter
Vivian L. Wainright April 1, 2015
Epsilon Chapter
Jean K. Smyth July 2, 2015 Sigma Chapter
Joanne Woodruff July 29, 2015
Nu Chapter
-For names to be printed in this section of the Deltagrams, Form 6 must be sent in to State Membership Chair, [email protected].
In
Memoriam
Photo by Laced Photography
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Members attending Southwest Regional in Wichita, KS in July are pictured above. Front row: Della Osgood, Paulette Fischer (Executive Secretary/Treasurer), Marty Tidd (Second Vice
President), Cay Sergent (President), Nadine Horner (Immediate Past President), Karen Evans (First Vice President), Bev Teri, Terre McPheeters.
Back: Gloria Judemann, Margaret Presson, Nancy Smith, Joan Judd, Sue Bolander, Terri Gillette, Sue Groves, Wilma Harpole, Sharon Jones, Ellen Twyman, Jessie Sergent
Far back: Virginia Baumann, Sylvia Brush, Diane Ackley
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Focus on Finance Virginia Baumann has served Delta State as Executive Secretary-Treasurer since 2004 with wisdom and grace. With the beginning of this new biennium, the position has passed to Paulette Fischer (Tau), from California, Missouri. Ginny has done everything possible to make this transition as smooth as possible, and she will continue to be involved in DKG state leadership. Delta State begins the 2015-2016 fiscal year with 1,501 Active and 114 Reserve members representing 56 chapters. 57 new members were initiated this year. 52 chapters have awarded $1,550 for four scholar-ships to members, and awarded 34 Grants-In-Aid to non-members for a total of $12,760. All state financial records and ac-
counts were reviewed and approved by the Finance Committee during the Biennial Planning Meeting in August. Chapter Finance Commit-tees are responsible for conducting internal finance reviews for the 2014-2015 fiscal year in July or August and reporting the results at the first chapter meeting in the fall. All chapters should adopt an annual operating budget at the first meeting of the new membership year, as well. A letter, a schedule of membership dues and fees, and samples of Forms 18 and 18A were sent to chapter treasurers in early August. Member-ship dues are unchanged for 2015-2016. Our goal is for 100% of chap-ters to submit dues by November 10. Treasurers are reminded to please
file the IRS Form 990-N electronic postcard for 2014-2015 for their chapters by November 15. For the chapters that retain $0.60 of the member’s scholarship fee, you must maintain a Scholarship Fund separate from the Available Fund, and use the money for members-only scholarships. The money can-not be used to award Grants-In-Aid to undergraduate non-members. Please call or email whenever you need assistance or have questions. Thank you for your service to your chapter, and to Delta State. Paulette Fischer Executive Secretary-Treasurer [email protected]
Betty Tillman Kinser, Past State President Passes Betty Tillman Kinser, 86, of Rog-ersville (Mentor), Missouri passed away peacefully at her family's Mis-souri Century Farm, surrounded by family and friends on Sunday, May 24, 2015. Betty and her father, Ches-ter Tillman, were both born at the farm that was built by her grandfa-
ther, John Tillman in 1890. Betty was united in marriage to Leslie Kinser in 1948. They located to Tulsa, Oklahoma shortly thereaf-ter where they lived for twenty-five years before returning to her family homestead. Betty and Les were ac-tive members of Second Baptist Church of Springfield. Betty received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Tulsa. Extensive upper lever stud-ies were obtained at Cambridge and Oxford Universities in England. She taught school at Will Rogers and Memorial High Schools in Tulsa,
and Kickapoo High School in Springfield. She was active in numerous organi-zations including PEO Sisterhood, the Ozark Genealogical Society, President of the Springfield Chapter of the National Society of Colonial Dames XVII Century, President of
Southwest Missouri Museum Asso-ciates (Springfield Art Museum) and member of Home Design, National Society of Daughters of the Ameri-can Revolution, the National Hu-guenot Society, Missouri State Presi-dent, as well as President, Treasurer and First Vice-President of the Epsi-lon Chapter of Delta Kappa Gam-ma. She also received the State Indi-vidual Achievement Award. Betty traveled extensively including numerous trips to Europe, Russia, Israel, Egypt, Canada and Mexico. Betty was preceded in death by her parents, Irene (Murphy) and Chester
Tillman, her husband, Leslie Kinser, and her daughter, Elizabeth Susan Kinser. Betty is survived by two daughters, Leslie Ann Kinser and Christine Love and her husband, Tom; and two grandchildren, Diane Haney and Zachary Haney.
Visitation was held from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Friday, May 29, 2015 in Gorman-Scharpf Brentwood Chap-el. Funeral services were held at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, May 30, 2015 in the funeral home. Burial followed in Hazelwood Cemetery.
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Delta State Committees Bylaws and Standing Rules
When a teacher starts a new school year one of the first things they do is read and understand their curricu-lum. This is the map (no pun intend-ed) they use as their guide to lead them through a successful year. Chapter Rules serve the same pur-pose for chapters. They should be an accurate and ready reference availa-ble to officers and all members as a guide for conducting chapter affairs. At the Delta State Fall Planning Meeting the members of the Delta State Bylaws and Standing Rules Committee met to plan for the next two years. Our goals are to: 1) Review and approve the Rules of all chapters so that they are con-sistent with the most recent edition of the International Standing Rules and Delta State Documents. 2) Update the Delta State Docu-ments to provide consistency with the most recent edition of the Inter-national Standing Rules. 3) Contact every chapter president to notify her of the status of her chap-ter’s rules. 4) Have 100% of chapters’ Rules ap-proved by the end of the biennium. Chapters are asked to review and submit their rules every two years. Chapters do NOT necessarily need to change them every two years – just REVIEW and SUBMIT them. Once they are submitted, the chapter will be notified of approval or of any changes that might need to be made. The committee members will contact chapter presidents to let them know the status of their chapter’s Rules soon. If chapters want to get started before they are contacted, e-mail Chairman, Mary Pettegrew, NE ([email protected]) for infor-mation specific to each chapter. Other committee members are Linda Wall, SE ([email protected]); Terri Gillette, SW
([email protected]); and Mary Ann Sadler, NW ([email protected]). Any member of this committee may be contacted with questions or con-cerns. -Mary Pettegrew, Chairman
Communication
The purpose of the Communica-tions Committee is to provide link-age of member-to-member, chapter to state organization and state organ-ization to international and to en-courage communication with other constituents. Members of the com-mittee are Ronni Jeter (SW-Gamma Xi), Amber Opfer (NE-Beta Tau), Rose Kreitler (SE-Beta Rho) and Ginny Baumann (SW-Alpha Gam-ma). The goals for the biennium are to assist chapters to increase communi-cations with members and to help them become aware of and adhere to the DKG International policy for electronic communications and pub-lishing guidelines. The committee will assist chapters with the develop-ment of websites and Facebook pag-es. -Ginny Baumann
Educational Excellence Educational Excellence is the com-bination of several committees. At the state level this includes: Profes-sional Affairs, Personal Growth and Services, Research and Music/Arts. It has two main areas of focus: Sup-porting Early-career Educators and Schools for Africa. Let’s start with Supporting Early-career Educators or better known as the SEE Program. (In Missouri we have often used the term Teacher
Helping Another Teacher or T.H.A.T.)
Educators are leaving the profession in high numbers before their fifth year of teaching. We need to reach out to these developing educators to
help them reach their potential. Re-tired educators can help them by vol-unteering in their classrooms to read in small groups or one-on-one, check sight words, make bulletin boards, cut out laminated items, and even run-off papers. But this is just the beginning. Sometimes just having someone to talk to, that is not part of their learning community, can be of great help. A classroom teacher can help out-side of the regular teaching day. This might be a time to go over school procedures, talk about parent conferences, what to expect from parent organizations, the best ways to supervise playgrounds or cafeteria duty, plus much more. The veteran teacher can help the novice teacher
find the best places to buy the extra items that classrooms need but the schools do not provide. Experienced teachers can lead the newbie on how the gradebook program works and what websites are extremely helpful. Another way to help the new teach-er is by providing items for the class-room. This could be general class-room supplies such as extra pens, pencils, erasers, glue, markers, dry erase markers, or even aspirin for those trying days!! Several chapters have beginning of the school goodie bags for these teachers, some give goodie bags at the middle of the school year and still others have monthly items for their new teachers. It is important to keep a record of all the hours you spend helping an early-career educator. Record keep-ing forms are available online at the state website. You need to also keep records of how much money you spend on an early-career educator. Our second focus is Schools for Af-rica. Schools for Africa or SFA be-came an international project in 2010. Money is raised to help pro-vide education in 13 countries in Af-rica with focus on girls, orphans and
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Delta State Committees vulnerable youth. The money goes through UNICEF and helps with early child development, access to primary basic education, non-formal education, HIV prevention in schools and education in emergen-cies. A newsletter and several Pow-erPoints are available from the Inter-national Website along with a Schools for Africa Flyer and contri-bution form. DKG is passionate about Support-ing Early-career Educators and Schools for Africa and the Educa-tional Excellence Committee will work hard to keep members in-formed about these issues.
Leadership Development 2015-2017 Goals: Provide professional and personal growth opportunities for Delta State members through conferences, con-ventions and seminars. Provide specific instruction for Presidents, Treasurers and Commu-nication Chairs at a Friday night meeting before each area conference. Provide a Saturday leadership con-ference in each area for all members: 1) Strive for 100 in attendance at each area conference. 2) Recognize individual and chapter awards and deceased members. 3) Keep in touch with each chapter in the area. Dates for each conference will be announced in the Winter Deltagrams. Leadership Committee: Bev Teri, NW; Arlene Broeker, NE; Paula Henbest, SW; Gloria Juedemann, SE; Sue Groves, Chair
Membership International President Lyn Schnid encourages all chapters, both strug-gling and healthy, to implement the new DKG Recruitment/Membership Plan. It is available on the DKG website Membership Com-
mittee page including complete in-structions and sample page resources your chapter needs to begin building membership. It is basically a 6 step program: Step 1--chapter members are asked to submit names of people via a Pro-spect Card they would like to see as members. The membership commit-tee then presents a list to the chapter members to vote. Step 2--Each prospect should be in-formed in a special personal letter, that she has been chosen for mem-bership for membership in our pres-tigious society (sample on website). A brief info on DKG and the chapter should be included, as well as an in-vitation to an orientation meeting. Ask them to RSVP.
Step 3--For those who plan to attend, buddy them with a chapter member. Step 4--At the orientation, provide social time for current and prospec-tive members and then present the "Pride in the Big Picture" slideshow (available at dkg.org). At the conclu-sion of the meeting (which lasts about an hour) ask them to make a decision to accept or decline the invi-tation to become a member. (REMINDER: no one has ap-proached these women about joining prior to the letter.) Step 5--The current member "buddy" can use the Chapter Member Appli-cation to obtain information about the prospective member. Recom-mendation for Membership or Form 11 used by many chapters to obtain member information can be used. It can also serve as a commitment for the prospective member. Step 6--Invite the prospective mem-ber to the initiation ceremony with the Initiation letter (see sample online). The rationale: Providing an orien-tation for prospective new members prior to their initiation is vital. It
helps them understand the value of membership and what the organiza-tion has to offer. It also provides a natural transition for mentoring. The mentoring system can forge that "friendship connection" and active engagement in the areas of interest of the new members. Those chapters who have used this recruitment plan have been successful. So utilize this plan to build the membership in your chapter. Here's to a successful year of building DKG! -Marty Tidd
Professional Growth and Services The goal of the Personal Growth & Services Committee is to enrich the personal lives of our members through programs and opportunities for growth and service. We ask you to check out the My DKG area of the DKG.org. This is a “closed” site accessible only to DKG members. Your user id is your DKG membership number. Contact your chapter president for the password. You can change the password and edit your profile once you are logged in. We encourage random acts of kind-ness and service. Simple things like a post-it note with a smiley face, a kind word, or positive thought put on a locker, desk, mirror, etc. mean a lot. Volunteer wherever you can to help others. Support DKG Schools for Africa. Lastly, take care of yourself. Set aside personal time - even just a few minutes - to do something to relieve the stress of daily life. Read a book just because, take a walk or a few deep breaths. Your health and well-ness are vital for YOU to be the best YOU for yourself so you can be the best for others. -Diana Ackley (chair), Sue Bolander, Sidney Boyd, and Judy Stanford.
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Delta State Committees Personnel
The committee met August 15, 2015 and reviewed the committee responsibilities. The duties and re-sponsibilities of the compensated personnel were also reviewed. The Personnel duties that are re-viewed annually include those of the Executive Secretary/Treasurer, Deltagrams Editor and The Delta State Web Editor. Recommenda-tions of the committee include the update of Bylaws and the standing rules in alignment with the compen-sated personnel duties.
The Personnel Committee will also provide future updates for the Per-sonnel Spotlight. -Personnel Committee
Professional Affairs On Saturday, August 15th, the Pro-fessional Affairs committee met to discuss topics and goals for the up-coming year. The top priorities iden-tified by the committee members in-cluded: 1) Social media 2) Recruit-ment and 3) Legislative information and sharing. In order to address these priorities,
the following goals were set: 1) Iden-tify the most effective media tool(s) to reach members. 2) Showcase members at chapter meetings and encourage chapter presidents to iden-tify a member(s) to present at region-al and state workshops. 3) Com-municate education-related legisla-tive issues to members. We look forward to the year ahead and are excited to work together to help meet the professional needs of all members.
Speaker Inspires Members at Leadership Seminar Attendees at the June 27th Delta State Leadership Seminar in Jeffer-son City had the privilege of hearing an energizing talk by Dr. Lulu Lopez. Dr. Lopez, who resides in Florida, was an educator for 40-plus years, as a classroom teacher, princi-pal, director of instructional planning and development for 413 schools while in California, and chaired her district’s Gang Force. She continues to share her skills and warm human-izing presence. She began with ask-ing each person to think of five per-sons they know who project a posi-tive outlook, high self-esteem and were “powerful in their own way.” Qualities in common were sensitivi-ty, intelligence, enthusiasm, nurtur-ing, talented, busy, humble, compas-sionate and organized, among oth-ers. She urged listeners to Be Your Word—keep agreements, and Be Yourself—everyone else is already taken (Oscar Wilde). The only per-son to compare oneself to is … your-
self, and get rid of the things in life that don’t serve you well, likening baggage to all that hangs in our clos-et, unworn, just taking up precious space. Members were encouraged to make an “Appreciation List” and keep adding to it--daily. She taught the Four Styles of Thinkers. One acknowledges she has both problems and goals and thinks, “now what?” The second feels she is in a box and has negative thoughts (“Yeah, but…”). The third has the problems and goals, all scattered and confused, and never finishes anything, and the fourth is simply a victim. “Can we rid ourselves of the negative? Do we stay in one place, or flow through all four styles?” Dr. Lopez had partici-pants do a W.H.A.M. (What’s Hot About Me?), listing 25 characteris-tics, and adding “I Am…” before each, urging them to continue to re-view and add to the list, again daily. There are 7 A’s everyone needs: Acknowledgement, Acceptance, Ap-
proval, Appreciation, Admiration, Attention and Affection. A telling point made was in Dr. Lopez relat-ing how she found in her work with the Gang Force that gang members find these 7 A’s within their gang membership—as a heartbreaking substitute for their lack within their families. A box graphic was used to symbolize four sides of the self to achieve P.O.M. (Peace Of Mind), mental, emotional, physical and spir-itual sides, and stressed the essential goal of health, because health is the basis of all. People must have inten-
tion to accomplish any goals. One
small group exercise done was to get in a group of four and tell about themselves, with no feedback, the listeners silent. Then, the commen-tary part, each telling what they heard and thought. It was truly lis-tening, being in the moment, and validating the other person. -Alice Neal (Xi)
2015-2017 Delta State Theme
Honoring Our Heritage...Engaging Our Future
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Links for Learning These are resources mentioned at the Southwest Regional Conference 2015. They may have been mentioned in a keynote address, break-out session, or during leadership training. Inclusion here provides no endorsement, howev-er, they are worth looking at and may provide just the resource needed. The list is not meant to be all-inclusive of items mentioned at the conference.
Books
One Piece of Paper by Mike Figliuolo
The Art of Possibility - by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander
Tongue Fu! How to Deflect, Disarm, and Defuse Any Verbal Conflict- Sam Horn
Managing By Values: How To Put Your Values Into Action for Extraordinary Results by Ken Blanchard and Michael
O'Connor
Death by Meeting; A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lecioni
Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully by Joan Chittister
Sunbonnet Angels by Josephine Ella White
Footprints on the Heart - The Caring Path to Prosperity by Dr. Muriel O'Tuel
The Mind Games: The Aging Brain and How to Keep It Healthy by Kathleen Hormeyer and Kathryn Wetzel
Bullying Beyond the Schoolyard: Preventing and Responding to Cyberbullying - Justin W. Patchin, Ph.D.
Words Wound: Delete Cyberbullying and Make Kindness Go Viral - Justin W. Patchin, Ph.D.
Soaring Stones by Dr. Maureen Clemmons and Dan Cray
It's Complicated; the social lives of networked teens by Danah Boyd - This is the 2015 Educator's Book Award Winner
The Human Age: the World Shaped by Us by Diane Ackerman - This is the 2015 Honorable Mention Book Award
Winner
Web Resources
www.cyberbullying.us Cyberbullying Research Center (Facebook)
www.training-wheels.com
What Every Discerning Webmaster and Editor Needs to Know - https://www.dkg.org/content/what-every-discerning-dkg-editor-and-webmaster-needs-know
**Links for Learning will be a regular column of resources that may be helpful to you. They may include books,
magazine articles, web resources, and apps. These web addresses were current at the time of publication, however websites change rapidly and cannot be guaranteed to be available later. All web addresses should be previewed before using in a presentation or classroom. No endorsement is given to commercial sites. –Cay
Delta State Initiates 16 Outstanding New Members Beta
Whitney Adams
Shanna Barkume Aneta Stanley
Nu
Rayetta Self
Tau Sarah Porter
Theresa Struemph Sara Wallis
Alpha Delta
Midhelle Hufford
Beta Delta Loretta Allen
Susan Bradley Lynn Orton
Sarah Randall Gretchen Trask
Beta Theta Jill Schupp
Beta Beta Nancy Krider
Patricia Pemberton
Welcome to Delta Kappa Gamma!
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Sally Shantz, an
Alpha Tau member,
was inducted into the Dallas County R-1 Schools Hall of Fame in May. She was honored for her
outstanding service to education. Sally was an elementary teacher in the Dallas County School system for 28 years. Sally began her teaching career after three years of college and was hired at Buffalo to teach a group of 53 students. The next year she re-turned to Drury University to com-plete her bachelor’s degree. Many of her students attribute their mastery of the multiplication tables to Sally’s
instruction. A colleague recalls being in her classroom when a particularly troubled boy was being carted off to the principal after acting out. Mrs. Shantz softly and sincerely said to the student “remember, I love you.” Sally also taught in the Springfield School district for seven years before retiring. Sally was known for her caring, compassionate ways with students. She often had a quote to share offering some wisdom.
Alpha Tau charter member, the late
Ethel Williams, was inducted into
the Dallas County R-1 Schools Hall of Fame in May. Miss Williams was a teacher for 49 years in Tunas, Ur-bana, and Verona where she later
became a principal. She returned to Urba-na for one year and then taught Business practice at Buffalo High School where she remained for 34 years. She was also secretary to D. A. Mallory, the superintendent. She retired in 1979. In her first teaching job at Tunas she taught all grades and had 63 students. Ethel was a devoted teacher and often helped her students with things like buying them necessary books and clothes, or even loaning her car so someone could attend a job interview. She always had a smile and was a devoted DKG member.
Delta State Chapters and Members
Officers Announce New Constant Email Addresses Delta State President Cay Sergent [email protected]
Delta State First Vice President Karen Evans [email protected]
Delta State Second Vice President Marty Tidd [email protected]
Delta State Recording Secretary Jana Siefkas [email protected]
Delta State Executive Secretary/Treasurer
Paulette Fischer [email protected]
Delta State Deltagrams Editor Jamie Erwin [email protected]
Delta State Web Editor Jamie Erwin [email protected]
Marty Tidd, Heidi Chadwick, and Karen Evans at Southwest Regional in Wichita, KS. Photos courtesy of Karen Evans.
Above: Bev Teri and Corlea Plowman, past DKG Executive Director, during SW Regional Conference. Right: President Cay Sergent with Susan Perkins, the Southwest Regional Confer-ence Coordinator during Kansas Night.
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D ELTA STATE W EB
ADDRESS WWW .DKGMISSOURI .C OM
Deadline for the next
Deltagrams:
November 1 for the Winter (December) issue
Important Dates
2016 International Convention July 5-9, Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center,
Nashville, TN
2017 Delta State Convention
April 21-23, Courtyard by Marriott, Columbia, MO
2017 Southwest Regional Conference, TBA—Hawaii
Newsletter Award: Best Content Provides timely and relevant DKG information to membership Promotes personal and professional growth
Newsletter Award: Best Graphic Design Effective and artistic layout Complete masthead with newsletter title, volume#, issue#, month, year, chapter
name, use of Society symbol and Society graphics
Effective use of shading and/or color Identification of editor and means of contact
Website Award: Best Website Content Graphic design Easy access User-friendly Uses Society guidelines
New Newsletters or Websites: All first time chapter newsletters and/or websites will be issued a certificate of
congratulations. The committee will recognize outstanding chapter publications at the four Area Conferences. The awards crite-ria are designed to help chapters achieve the recognition. To be considered, the newsletter must be published a minimum of four times between March 1, 2015 and March 1, 2016. The website should be updated throughout the year. Documentation should be submitted by March 15 by email or U.S. mail to [email protected] or 999 E Gaslight Drive, Springfield, MO 65810.
Communication Committee Announces Awards
Golden Anniversary Sales
Please help support the Golden Anniversary Funds by purchasing
DKG items! Items can be mailed to your home (postage will be
added to the cost).
Call or email Vicki Cassady 417-438-6213, [email protected]
Update Your Information Is your name listed in the Yellow Pages?
If you are a Delta State officer, chapter president, past Delta State president, or a Delta State committee
member, then the answer is yes. Delta State needs to keep your address, telephone
number, and email address current. Please go to dkgmissouri.com, click on resources and
then update your information on the google form.
