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Alpha Alpha Chapter, Pi State, The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International

May 2018

“Each of us can be compared to a spoke in a wheel. Without each spoke functioning well, our wheel won’t turn.”

Founders’ Day Meeting – May 2, 2018

New Alpha Alpha Officers were installed by Membership Co-Chair Donna Noble.

Those installed were President Bridget Bishop, Vice President Mary Ann Geonie, and Treasurer Dr. Betsy Balzano. Incoming officers Diane Maurer, Secretary, and Sherry Johnson, Assistant Treasurer, were unable to attend the May 2 meeting and will be installed at the earliest upcoming meeting possible.

During the Founders’ Day program on May 2, Historical Records Chair Judy Fuller reviewed the foundations of DKG, Pi State, and Alpha Alpha Chapter.

A number of awards were presented. Recognition Award Chair Bridget Bishop and Committee Member Monica Cosgrove recognized members for their years of service, and presented Outstanding Service Awards to Jeanette Banker and Dr. Margie Lovett-Scott. Since Jeanette was unable to attend the meeting, the award was presented to Jeanette at her home.

Judy Fuller sharing reflections about the origins of Delta Kappa Gamma and our chapter

Membership Co-Chair Donna Noble (filling in for Eileen Wuethrich) installing new officers: Incoming President Bridget Bishop, Incoming Vice President Mary Ann Geonie, and Incoming Treasurer Dr. Betsy Balzano—as outgoing President Judy Wadsworth and Vice President Lori Burch look on.

Also recognized were Wanda Ward for being the 2018 recipient of the prestigious Pi State Frederica Hollister Award, and Sheila Brady-Root for receiving a Pi State Travel and Study Award for attending the upcoming DKG Convention in Austin, Texas.

Monica Cosgrove of the Recognition Committee with Dr. Margie Lovett-Scott who received the Outstanding Service Award, and Recognition Committee Chair Bridget Bishop

President Judy Wadsworth recognizing Wanda Ward and Sheila Brady-Root for receiving Pi State awards.

Award recipient Jeanette Banker with Recognition Committee Chair Bridget Bishop at Jeanette’s home on Mary 4.

Chapter members at College at Brockport ceremony Dr. Faith Prather and Dr. Dawn Jones dressed in their academic regalia in April.Faith is retiring this spring and will present a Commencement address on May 11.

From our President . . .

As always Alpha Alpha Chapter Members provide so many reasons for me to feel grateful and proud.

Thanks to Chairperson Judy Fuller for hosting our Founders’ Day meeting and Membership Committee Co-Chairs Linda Kotwas and Donna Noble plus Historical Records.

Congratulations and thanks to Jeanette Banker and Dr. Margie Lovett-Scott who received Alpha Alpha’s 2018 Outstanding Service Award at the meeting. Both Jeanette and Margie personify leadership through their unending support of our chapter and our members.

Congratulations also to Wanda Ward and Sheila Brady-Root upon receiving Pi State Awards. Wanda received the prestigious Frederica Hollister Award and Sheila received a travel stipend to pay for her attendance at the DKG International Convention in Austin this summer. These awards were announced at the April 2018 Pi State Meeting in Latham, NY. Because Wanda was unable to attend the spring meeting, she will be presented with her award at the fall Pi State meeting in Corning.

Please plan to attend our Scholar Awards Breakfast on Saturday, June 2, to meet with our scholars and their families, to receive updates from our scholars, to support our scholar awards funds by bidding in the silent auction, and to enjoy one another’s company. AND, please consider contributing items for the silent auction (and bring cash or your checkbook to bid on auction items on June 2).

One lucky person will go home from the June 2 session with the beautiful quilt created by Donna Noble. If you haven’t purchased your tickets for the drawingyet, your last changes will be on June 2 before the drawing.

I hope to see you on June 2 as we celebrate our scholars.

The 2018 Pi State’s prestigious Frederica Hollister Professional Educator Award was presented to our chapter’s Wanda Ward for her decades of service to public education and to DKG at the Chapter, Pi State, and International levels. The award includes a gift of $1,000 to a charity of Wanda’s choice and a separate $1,000 for her own use.

Alpha Alpha Chapter is also home to two previous Frederica Hollister Award recipients:

FREDERICA HOLLISTER AWARDS

Betty Svitavsky (2012)Jeanette Banker (2011)

Judy WadsworthYears of Service Honorees

5 Years: Annie Tran Flesch, Mary Ann Geonie10 Years: Pam Quamo15 Years: Judy Wadsworth30 Years: Sheila Brady-Root, Dr. Ena Farley40 Years: Linda Bretz, Dr. Roselyn Freedman-Baum41 Years: Gretchen Hughes42 Years: Esther Blackman44 Years: Rose Swiskey45 Years: Wanda Ward47 Years: Anne Abbey54 Years: Jeanette Banker,

Anne O’Toole59 Years: Betty Svitavsky

Chapter members at College at Brockport ceremony

Dr. Faith Prather and Dr. Dawn Jones dressed in their academic regalia in April.

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Faith is retiring this spring and will present a Commencement address on May 11.

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Alpha Alpha Authors

Lesli Myers Shares Lessons of Leadership

Dr. Lesli C. Myers has just published Life’s Leadership Lessons which includes 31 lessons (one for each day of the month) that end with some questions. She has accumulated these lessons during her years as an educator and administrator that has culminated in her position as Superintendent of the Brockport Central School District. Lessons include: "If you do it during practice, you’ll do it in the game," "Practicing purposeful forgiveness," and "Do you have the right to remain silent?" The book gets good reviews from chapter members whohave read it. Life’s Leadership Lessons is available from Amazon.com.

Margie Lovett-Scott And Faith Prather Text Used in Colleges Worldwide

Did you know that in 2012 Dr. Margie Lovett-Scott and Dr. Faith Prather co-authored Global Health Systems, a college textbook that compares health care delivery systems in seven nations? Margie has visited some of the countries included in the volume. The text, with accompanying teacher materials and test questions, is used in college programs in several countries. Margie is now retired from her position as Associate Professor of Nursing at The College at Brockport. Faith is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at The College at Brockport.

The textbook for International health, comparative studies, global health, international affairs, health administration and public health helps students to think more deeply about how health care is organized.

Dr. Margie Lovett-Scott

Dr. Faith Prather

Dr. Lesli C. Myers

Date Event Location

June 2, 8:30 am Awards Breakfast College at Brockport

Upcoming Events

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Members of the Scholarship and Awards Committee met with Reichel scholars at Brockport’s Alumni House on April 30. Our new Reichel Scholar Angela Austin was welcomed and former Reichel scholars were celebrated for their accomplishments to date.

Incoming Reichel scholar Angela Austin with Erin Nichols (current Reichel scholar), Helen Knapp (current Foster scholar), and Rachael Kazdan (current Luskey scholar).

Five members of our chapter—Bridget Bishop, Roz Freedman-Baum, Sue Genthner, Margie Lovett-Scott, and Judy Wadsworth—attended the Pi State Executive Committee meeting near Albany in April. Margie and Sue led seminars on leadership development; both Margie and Judy Wadsworth reported at the executive committee meeting on the work of the Pi State committees that they chair.

Sue Genthner preparing for presentation with help of Jennifer Lee Alden

Roz Freedman-Baum and Bridget Bishop singing at Pi State luncheon

Judy Wadsworth at the Pi State business meeting.

Margie Lovett-Scott leading a Pi State seminar

Catching up with Reichel Scholars Alpha Alpha Members at Pi State Meeting

Bridget Bishop, Lynn Keefer, Monica Cosgrove before the meeting.

Wanda Ward, Rose Swiskey, Sheila Brady-Root

More Founders' Day Photos

Scholarship & Awards Committee Chair Monica Cosgrove, Reichel Award recipient Angela Austin, her mother Liz Austin, and Scholarship & Awards Committee Member Lynne Keefer.

2018 Conference Theme:Stepping Up to Protect the World’s Children

About 600 educators from preK-16 schools around the country met on April 6

at the United Nations at the conference of the Committee on Teaching About

the United Nations (CTAUN) that focused on protecting the world’s children.

The conference included presentations by eight UN officials as well as a New

York City youth group, a university professor and representatives from activist

groups. Common themes were the importance of education, the prevention of

violence against children, and the importance of demonstrating the value of

non-violence and peace. A highlight of the conference was the presentation of

awards to school leaders who organize learning activities involving the United

Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (see graphic below).

Educators are encouraged to use CTAUN and UN resources to help them

involve their students

CTAUN works to provide educators with resources to use in teaching about the

UN and to incorporate global awareness into curricula and school activities.

CTAUN was founded in 1996 and is closely tied to but separate from The

Delta Kappa Gamma Society International.

Resources for teaching about the UN and Sustainable Development Goals

* Sustainable Development Goals: www.sdgsinaction.com

* CTAUN: www.teachun.org

Includes primary sources, lesson plans, classroom tools, books, videos

* Mentor New York www.mentorkids.org

Organizes mentoring relationships throughout New York State

* SOS Children’s Villages www.sos-kd.org

Non-governmental, global federation protecting and caring for children

who have lost parental care or who are at risk of losing it

* UNICEF www.unicef.org

TOP: Rosemary Callard-Szulgit and Judy Wadsworth at the

CTAUN conference at the UN Building in New York City.

MIDDLE: Recipients of the 2018 CTAUN Excellence in

Education Awards to recognize their work to promote the UN

Sustainable Development Goals through student projects.

BOTTOM: Rosemary Callard-Szulgit and Judy Wadsworth in

the UN General Assembly room.

LEFT: The UN Sustainable Development Goals. Educators

are encouraged to involve their students in projects to help

support one or more of these goals.

Disturbing Facts about Violence Against Children

Every five minutes a child dies somewhere as the result of

violence.

One half of all children, about 1 billion, have suffered some sort

of violence.

There are more refugees now than ever before and most of them

are children, many without adult care givers.

Child slavery is common worldwide, more so today than at any

time in history. Child slavery is involved in providing the rest of us

with items and services we enjoy (e.g., electronic equipment).

A disturbing sub-group of child slavery is sexual, and in many

instances involves children as they leave the foster care system.

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Presentation of 2017 Award RecipientsClara D. Bishop Award ~ Lorraine A. Sherwood Award

Katharine M. Reichel Award ~ Dorothy E. Foster Award

Betty Vary Award ~ Frances Moroney Whited Award

Mary I. Luskey Award ~ Ruth M. Morgan Apple for the Teacher Award

The Mary Bastian LectureChristopher Albrecht

2017 New York State Teacher of the Year

Silent Auctionto support our AWARDS funds

(Please bring checks and/or cash only.)

Drawing for Quilt created and donated by Donna Noble

Please join us and bring guests! Cost: $18 per person (Checks payable to ALPHA ALPHA)

Reservations due by May 26, 2018 to Elaine Leshnower, 216 Village Lane, Rochester, NY 14610

442-9180 or eleshnower@rochester.rr.com

*** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Reservations for June 2, 2018 Awards Breakfast

_____ I will attend: ____________________________

_____ Number of guests

Names:

_______________________________________________

I am enclosing an additional contribution ($ ) to help pay for award recipients’ meals.

_____Total ( ____ x $18 per person) payable to Alpha Alpha Chapter

_____ (Whether or not you will attend on June 2) I wish to make a contribution to an award fund**

** To ensure that your contribution is tax deductible, make award fund checks payable to either

The Brockport Foundation (for the Reichel, Foster, Whited, and Luskey awards, or to

FLACE fbo Alpha Alpha for the Bishop, Sherwood, and Vary awards. Indicate specific award fund, if you wish,

on the check memo line. Checks made out to Alpha Alpha Chapter are not tax deductible.

Saturday, June 2, 2018New York Room, Cooper Hall, The College at Brockport

8:30 – 11:00 am

33rd

Annual

Alpha AlphaAwards Breakfast

to honor our scholar award recipients

May15 Lesli Myers21 Carol St. George22 Mary Anne

Pietrzykowski24 Joan Fenton28 Monica Cosgrove29 Betsy Balzano

Alpha Alpha Chapter, Pi State, The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International

May 2018

1 – Founders’ Day Dinner – New Officers

2 – From our president; Awards

3 – Alpha Alpha Authors

4- Reichel Scholars, Pi State Meeting, Founders’ Day

5 – CTAUN

6 – Silent Auction

7 - Awards Breakfast Registration

8 – May and June BirthdaysDKG Webinars on Amendments

Janet Winter, Editorwinterjanets@gmail.com

2016-2018 Alpha Alpha Officers :

President Judy Wadsworth 442-47371st Vice President Betsy Balzano 594-0314 2nd Vice President Lori Burch 520-7512Secretary Mary Ann Geonie 637-0045Treasurer Annie Tran Flesch 406-3706Parliamentarian Roz Freedman-Baum 442-6769Past President Pamela Eberhardt 889-2754

NEXT NEWSWHEEL DEADLINE: June 8At any time, please forward items you’d like included in the Newswheel to the editor at the email address

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May and June Birthdays

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For members who have opinions on the many proposed amendments to the Delta Kappa Gamma Society, International Constitution, DKG has scheduled three webinars to discuss the proposals on April 25, May 8, and May 19. A special newsprint compilation of all the proposed amendments, as well as the latest issue of the DKG Bulletin which contains information on the proposals, were mailed directly to all members. Information can also be found on the Society website at http://www.dkg.org/DKGMember/Resources/2018_Proposed_amendments.aspx.

DKG Webinars on Amendments

June8 Susan Dodge-

PetersDaiss9 Mary Duryea Merle

13 Anne O’Toole24 Elaine Leshnower29 Linda Kotwas