Inside this issue:

Nadine’s News 2

In Memoriam 2

T.H.A.T. 3

Missouri Picture 3

Thanks from Heidi 4

Committee News 5

New Web & Email 6

Volume 65, Issue 3

MISSOURI, DELTA STATE

Fall 2013

Delta State hosted the 2013 South-west Regional Conference in Bran-

son, MO on July 17-20. From pre-

conference training on Monday and Tuesday to the President’s Banquet

Saturday night, Delta State members

entertained, organized and shared the

great state of Missouri. Attendees enjoyed fellowship and training with

members from 22 regional states as

well as shopping in Branson’s Land-ing district, entertainment on the

“Strip”, and being surrounded by the

beautiful views of the

Ozark

Mountains. Pictured at

right is SW

Regional

Director, Heidi

Chadwick,

holding a proclama-

tion from Governor, Jay Nixon.

Delta State Shines at SW Regional

The

Delta Kappa

Gamma

Society

International

promotes

professional

and personal

growth

of

women

educators and

excellence

in education.

Steering Committee Thanks Delta State

Missouri members

made all of

us proud and we are

so happy

with our

success as hostess of

the 2013

Southwest Regional

Conference. There is no way to say

thanks individually as there were too many participants doing their share to

make a completely outstanding ex-

perience for all the 22 states and

countries represented in Branson. We had 612 registered for the Bran-

son gathering. Of those, 155 were

Missouri members! The people behind the scenes work-

ing without spotlight and glory con-

tributed as much as the folks out front who were receiving thanks. We are

thankful for all the contributions by

everyone.

We just heard no complaints and many, many compliments as to the

“best Regional I have ever attended”,

“a perfect experience”, “Missouri did ‘Show-Us’ what you mean by the

‘Show Me State’ by your friendli-

ness”. Great comments about the roses with a feather being such a neat

way of identifying ourselves to “it

was an outstanding idea to offer a

quick bite before breakfast;” the or-ganization of our workers and pro-

gram were greatly appreciated, to

“the facility choice was outstanding.” And of course our big show on the

Wednesday night “Missouri Night”

received many, many compliments for quality and for staying on time.

Again, it is fantastic to receive the

praise for the work of the 100 plus

Missouri women who represented all our state members.

-Faye Peters

SW Regional Conference Steering Committee Chair

Pictured left is Immediate Past State

President, Bev Teri, with Delta State President Nadine Horner as they

marched into the First General Ses-

sion.

*Both pictures on this page are printed with permission by Photo-

graphs by Jim.

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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

http://www.deltakappagamma.org/MO/

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

Nadine’s News What an honor to be president of such an out-

standing group of ladies!

We were well represented

at the Southwest Regional Conference in Branson

July 17-20 with over 150

Missouri members regis-tered. Our members were

commended highly for

their hard work, their hos-pitality, their helpfulness

and their friendliness. Pat

yourselves on the back for

a job well done! Now that the Regional is behind us, it is time to focus on

the work for Delta State. The theme for this biennium is

“FORWARD MOVING EVER---Through Strategic Plan-

ning.” The goals for this biennium are: 1. Increasing membership

2. Every chapter developing a workable Strategic Action

Plan

3. Retaining members and chapters. I would like to visit as many chapters and coordinating

councils as possible during my term as president. My cal-

endar is already beginning to fill with planned visits. If you would like to schedule a visit, please contact me as soon as

possible so we can get it on the calendar.

If there is ever anything I can do to help you, please feel free to contact me. If I don’t know the answer, we will

work together to find it. Please e-mail or call me anytime.

Again, I am so glad to be a part of this great state organi-

zation! -Nadine Horner

Delta State President

In Memoriam...

Betty Lou Cunningham

Alpha Iota

April 15, 2013

Joyce M. Bell

Xi

April 18, 2013

Sara Lea Harper

Xi

May 28, 2013

Dr. Norma T. Bishop

Alpha Tau

August 10, 2013

* Names can be printed in the “In Memoriam…” section only if Form 6

has been sent into the Membership Chair.

Above: Jana Siefkas and Cheryl McBride on

“WDKG” Right: Dar-lene Helman and Marilyn Skipper

Right: DKG members per-form “The Laughing Song” at Southwest Regional at Branson during the Second

General Session

Deltagrams, Page 3

Delta State Members and Chapters Make a Difference Alpha Tau enjoyed a delightful meeting Saturday, April 20, 2013. It

was very special to us because we

celebrated "Hats Off to DKG" in 3 dif-

ferent ways: 1) Several of us wore hats and/or gloves to honor the found-

ing women who accomplished so

much for us, and the skit "Hats Off to DKG" was done with hats describing

the personalities of each of those foun-

ders. 2) We then celebrated the "Annie

Webb Blantons" of today by honoring

our members who are making a differ-

ence in our local communities by giv-ing them updated service pins for their

years in Alpha Tau. Of our 46 mem-

bers, 4 were newcomers with less than

5 years of membership, 5 had earned 5 year service pins, 6 had earned 10 year

pins, 5 had served for 15 years, 3 for

20 years, 8 had given 25 years to Al-

pha Tau, 4 had given 30 years, 2 earned 35 year pins, 2 reserve mem-

bers earned 40 year pins, AND

SEVEN charter members of Alpha Tau earned 45 year service pins! Three of

those could not be at the meeting be-

cause of illness-Ernestine Kinsey,

Neomia Keller, and Sally Shantz, but

four were able to be there, and it was

so much fun to be able to honor those

four dear ladies-Eva Marie Glor, Dr.

Rose Mary Owens, Geneva Lawyer,

and Norma Bishop. 3) We then fin-

ished our "Hats Off to DKG" celebra-

tion by urging each member to honor key women educators who will follow

us by remembering to reach back with

a helping hand to early-career educa-

tors. The question was asked, "For whom are YOU guiding the way?"

It was made all too clear how impor-

tant it is to celebrate and honor achievements and service when we lost

one of our charter members, Norma

Bishop, to pancreatic cancer this month. How glad we were that we had

taken the time to honor her life--as

well as all of our charter members, and

the service of all of the members of Alpha Tau.

155 Delta State Members Attend SW Regional! * Printed with permission from Photographs by Jim. (http://photographsbyjim.com/)

What’s T.H.A.T.? Teachers Helping Another Teacher is T.H.A.T. It is a project of Delta State to provide support for our early career educators.

Who are our early career educators? They are educators who have been in the field five years or less. How can we help them?

There are a variety of ways to provide assistance. It can be as simple as an occasional telephone call or a note which offers

encouragement. Being a volunteer in their classrooms is a great way to help. Assisting with a field trip or helping the teacher

prepare the classroom for the start

of the school year are two more

valuable ways to assist teachers.

Chapters could provide gift cards

for teachers to use to purchase

classroom supplies. Sometimes

simply lending a listening ear pro-

vides much encouragement. The

help of DKG members will make a

difference. Beginning teachers will

know that they are not alone and

others have faced similar chal-

lenges. In doing so they will be

encouraged to stay in the teaching

profession and Delta State members

will be a valued part of helping

retain talented educators. We are

asking that each chapter report the

time members spend helping the

early career educator as well as any

monetary donations. Updated

forms will be available soon on the

Delta State website. If you have

questions about T.H.A.T., please

contact Cay Sergent at

csergent@windstream.net.

Please remember to send a copy of

your chapter yearbooks to Cay as

well.

Deltagrams, Page 4

Delta State Initiates 28 New Members! These members were initi-ated between February 1,

2013 and June 30, 2013.

Epsilon Rebecca Ash

Jennifer Webb

Mu

Julie Brant

Rita Crocker Cyndy Hartwell

Rebecca Petet

Nu Kimberly Day

Debbie Hollrah

Bryanne Payne

Alpha Iota

Amanda Albrecht

Regina Cooper Kristen Driemeier

Alpha Xi Jane Jackson

Pamela Rader

Karen Wigger

Alpha Psi Cynthia Hall

Alpha Omega

Shannon Harter

Beta Beta

Susan Schaefer

Beta Delta

Melissa Bradley Katie Collins

Tina Risse

Gamma Tau Lori Knoblauch

Jennifer Jacobsmeyer

Lisa Jaschke

Gamma Phi

Julie Allen

Nancy Beltz Barbara Gaither

Trazha Malam

Congratulations!

Welcome to DKG!

Dear Bev and all the lovely ladies in Missouri,

What a delightful experience to attend your outstanding state organization convention as the Society Representative. The

warm welcome started with a wonderful experience at the lovely “Bed and Breakfast” of Karen Evans after arriving at the

airport in St. Louis Thursday night. Each step along the way throughout the next few days were filled with gracious welcomes

and so many great ladies I had the opportunity to meet. What an honor to be with you!

Your convention theme was perfect: “The Gifts of DKG”, because all of you are so giving in your chapters, state and with

each other. Chapters have a wide variety of projects serving their communities. Your state organization focus on supporting

early-career educators is to be commended. The gifts of friendships abound with members being cooperative and supportive

as they all work well together. I thank you for sharing your “Gifts of DKG” with me.

The Southwest Regional Conference was in great, capable hands with all of you on board to assist as we welcomed members

for fun, friendship and a focus on the Society. Faye Peters, the Steering Committee Chair, and Missouri members spent many

hours to assure members that came to Branson this summer were embraced with your care and by your commitment to provid-

ing the best ever Southwest Regional Conference. Thank you for saying “yes”! Thank you for your professional touch!

Thank you for every contribution made to contribute to making this conference successful. Members loved being with YOU!!

Continue to “Share Our Vision and Strengthen Our Society”.

Love,

Heidi Chadwick

SW Regional Director

Left: “Mark Twain” visited during Missouri Night at SW Regional Conference. Above:

Mother and daughter, Carrie and Teresa Begeman, find a place to relax. Right: Darlene Hel-

man and Terre McPheeters sing at the First General Session.

Deltagrams, Page 5

Delta State Committees Move Forward ACHEIVEMENT AWARD

The Achievement Award Committee met, perused, discussed, and made only minor changes in the two forms—Delta State Chapter Achievement Award re-

cord sheet and Delta State Individual Achievement Award. You can download these from the Delta State website www.dkgmissouri.com.

The submission deadlines are impor-tant: Individual Achievement Award

January 15, 2014, and Chapter

Achievement Award March 15, 2014. The contact chair has changed: Judy Stanford jastanford@aol.com, 30 Southern Pine Lane, Four Seasons,

MO 65049 A committee member will have re-minders of deadlines in each Delta-grams issue.

The committee knows that your chap-ter has nominees. We are eager to serve you. Members of the committee are: Caryl Feiler (Xi), Joy Underdown

(Beta), and Kaye West (Alpha Theta). -Judy Stanford (Tau), chair

BYLAWS AND STANDING RULES By-laws and standing rules are fluid

documents that reflect the guidelines by which a chapter operates. It is the re-sponsibility of each chapter to review its rules every biennium, and whether or

not changes are made, send a copy to the state chairman of the By-laws and Standing Rules Committee, Dr. Sharon

Jones. Copies of rules may be sent electronically to sjones@blueeye.k12.mo.us, or via regu-lar mail to her at P.O. Box 67, Blue

Eye, MO 65611. At the 2013-2015 Delta State Planning Meeting held in Jefferson City in Au-gust, the members of the committee met

to discuss how best to inform chapters of the status of their chapter rules; i.e., whether or not the chapter has submit-ted a copy of its current rules. The

committee members also discussed ef-fective ways to provide helpful informa-tion to the chapters about how to make

changes to, and what should be included in the chapter rules.

Read this section for further informa-

tion in future Deltagrams. Members of the state By-laws and Standing Rules committee are Mary Pettegrew, Betty Nichols, Linda Wall,

and Melody Boring. -Mary Pettegrew

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT The Leadership Development Com-

mittee met at the state planning meeting in August. The area coordinators will be contacting every chapter and visiting council meetings. We are in the process

of planning for the area conferences in April and May. These will be in place of the state convention in 2014. The dates you might want keep available

are: SW April 11-12, 2014; NE May 2-3, 2014; SE May 16-17, 2014 and NW May 30-31. Friday evening will be for

presidents and treasurers to provide spe-cific training. Saturday will be for eve-

ryone to attend. We are hoping for at least 100 in each area. So make plans to

attend the one-day drive to learn, cele-brate accomplishments, and fellowship with others from your area. SW Terri Gillette (Gamma Xi)

SE Madge Wiesner (Pi) NW Claudette Scott Rogers (Alpha Rho) NE Cheryl McBride (Alpha Omega) LD Chair Sue Groves (Epsilon)

NOMINATIONS The Nominations Committee reorgan-ized at the 2013-15 Delta State Planning

Committee on August 10, 2013. The reorganized committee is Teresa Bege-mann (chairperson), Jana Siefkas, Dar-lene Sokol and Marcia Dawn Powell.

The committee determined that the Delta State Committee Volunteer Form needs to be updated before the next Delta State Convention. At the Delta

State Leadership Conferences, there will be a packet given to the Chapter Presidents in the four different areas. The packet will contain the committee

volunteers for the next biennium and the educators that would like to run for an office of Delta State in 2015. The

Nominations committee will meet within the coming year to update the

Committee Volunteer form. At the

Delta State Convention of 2015, the Nominations committee will present a workshop on serving Delta Kappa Gamma in a leadership role within the

chapter, state, or even international level.

PERSONNEL The Personnel committee met at the

planning meeting. We send our thanks to the MRTA for sharing their building in Jefferson City to our members. The Personnel Committee is composed

of five members. Two members are elected in each odd-numbered year and hold the position for four years; and the immediate Past State President serves

on the committee for the two years im-mediately following her presidency. The Personnel committee evaluates the

work of the compensated personnel yearly and recommends that the execu-tive committee continue their employ-ment if the evaluations indicate to do so.

The evaluations are kept by the Delta State President, the Executive Secretary Treasurer and by the Personnel Com-mittee Chair.

Members of the committee are: Bev Teri, Glenda White, Joan Dix, Faye Pe-ters and Julie Yowell, Chair.

PROFESSIONAL AFFAIRS

The Professional Affairs Committee met at our Delta State Planning meeting with our new president, Nadine Horner

on August 10, 2013 at the MRTA build-ing in Jefferson City. The focus of this committee’s discussion was on the 2014 and 2015 Key Woman Educator Recog-

nition Awards, (formerly known as the Excellence in Education Award) that will be awarded to a nominated member of each chapter at the 2014 state area

conferences and 2015 state convention. Committee members revised the form to reflect up-to-date information, and were asked by Nadine to look at the guide-

lines, and amend them, to include our current theme of supporting early career educators. These forms will be avail-

able on the state website soon. The ab-solute (cont. on p. 6)

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NEW WEB A DDRESS ! WWW .DKGMISSOURI . COM

Deadline for the next

Deltagrams:

November 1 for the

Winter (December) issue

Important Dates

2014 International Convention

July 28-August 1, Marriott Hotel, Indianapolis, IN

2015 Delta State Convention

April 10-12, Hilton Garden Inn, Independence, MO

2015 Southwest Regional Conference

Wichita, Kansas, Date and Location TBD

2016 International Convention

July 5-9, Nashville, Tennessee, Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center

Delta State Committees

(cont. from p.5) due date (no exceptions) will be March 1st of 2014 and 2015. Please recognize

one of your worthy members each year for this award. Other discussions held during this meeting, within our commit-tee, were to bring awareness of legisla-

tive issues pertaining to education to the attention of our members. We plan to make a handout available to all mem-bers at our first area conferences pro-

vided by a local representative who sup-

ports education issues. At the state con-

vention we will ask a state representa-tive to provide a workshop for teachers who are interested in learning more about what legislative issues, pertaining

to education, are currently being dis-cussed and decided upon at the state level. -Judy Heuer

RESEARCH Hear ye, hear ye…The Research Com-mittee is moving into the digital age. The committee is looking into a system

that is cost effective while pulling his-

tory, researching and scrapbooking to-gether. Not only will it be cost effective, but it will help keep DKG on the front-line with technology today. Scrapbook-

ing will be on a digital sharing network that will be available on our website as well as shown at State and Regional levels.

Going digital will help us be able to contain history of DKG and our chap-ters; help with updated research; and share scrapbooking in a fun media. Be

sure to look for updates in our Delta-

Send your chapter and

member news to the

new email address! deltagrams.mo@gmail.com

MEMBERSHIP Did you ever wonder why someone dropped their membership in DKG? A survey was taken and the results were pre-

pared by Membership Services Department for the Administrative Board May 2013. (Information from 2013 Member-

ship Pre-Conference Training Manual, page 11)

Prepared by Membership Services Department for the Administrative Board May 2013