lambda sigma january 2013 newsletter

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LAMBDA SIGMA NEWS

The Delta Kappa Gamma Society InternationalTexas State Organization Lambda Sigma Chapter

Missouri City, Texas

Volume 31, Number 6 January, 2013Area IV, Number 282

President: Linda Russell Editor: Kathy [email protected] [email protected]

The Delta Kappa Gamma MissionStatement

The Delta Kappa Gamma SocietyInternational promotes professional and

personal growth of women educators andexcellence in education.

2012-2014 DKG Officers

Officers for 2012-2014 at the December ExecutiveOfficers Meeting and Luncheon at the HoustonJunior LeagueL-R: Harriet Mantini, Debbie Reynolds, LindaRussell, Julie Gehring, Cathie Ritchie and OcieWhitaker (Dale Araujo not present)

January 2013 Meeting

Saturday, January 12Arrive 9:45A.M. Meeting10:00 Noon

Dr. Reddys Office(Reddy Cardiac Wellness Center)

3519 Town Center Blvd. Sugar Land(behind Town Center Pediatrics/Lone Star

Eye by AMC movie theater)Phone: 281-491-0044

Dr. Reddy will talk to us after 11:00 andGive us new heart healthy facts and

a tour of the equipmentWe will be meeting on the first floor.

BRING GUESTSIf you cant make the meeting, you can stillmeet us for lunch. Those interested, we

are going to Blu Restaurant after themeeting where we have 12:30

reservations.2248 Texas Drive (close to Escalantes in

First Colony Town Square)Please let Debbie Reynolds know if you

are coming for lunch.We will have a drawing for $30 gift card to

RED OAK GRILLHostesses: Louise Nutzman, chair; AbbyGrobe, Dale Araujo, Cathie Ritchie, and

Rita Drabek.

Visit our chapter website

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Or on Facebook search

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President's Message

Happy 2013 New Year!

A great time was had by all who attended our December 2012 Holiday Appetizer Party. DawnWestfalls home was beautifully decorated. Members were in awe seeing her creativity demonstratedin each room. The outdoor Christmas lights lit up the walkway which was lined with live poinsettiasthat were leading to Dawns front door. These poinsettias along with many other donations wereprizes that members and guests won throughout the evening. We collected around $250 from ourpoinsettia ticket sales. Many times we visited the appetizer table for refills of the scrumptious varietiesof foods. Barbs famous Poinsettia Champagne Punch and Anns delicious Holiday Punch recipeswere a hit again this year. Suzanne Neal had organized a holiday card signing table for us to writenotes to DKGs World Fellowship recipients. Debbie Reynolds displayed all the cute pictures of whenwe were a tad bit younger and set up a contest where the first person to correctly identify the most,had the first pick from the donated gifts. I lucked out and won: otherwise, I wouldnt have wonanything until the last drawing. I was excited to pick the first poinsettia and am still enjoying the

beauty of it. Christi Chrisman led us in Christmas Carols and we all enjoyed singing, relaxing, yaking,visiting, eating and drinking responsibly. Thanks to Dawn and her husband for being such gracioushosts.

Your Lambda Sigma officers met mid December for an executive board meeting at the HoustonJunior League. We missed Dale as we were sorry to hear that her father had passed away theevening before. Having more time for socializing at our meetings was the consensus of all present.We definitely saw at the holiday party how we enjoy visiting. Therefore, it will be more important forus to pay closer attention to the information presented in our newsletters and minutes as I will try toshorten meetings by not repeating most of the same information. We already have the minutesattached to the newsletters for you to read before meetings and in the future we plan to also have thetreasurers report available to view. Harriet will be consolidating our meeting minutes by recording

highlights which will allow for easier reading. Your officers and committee chairs have worked hardduring this first semester in office. We appreciate your patience as we have all had to learn what ourjobs entailed and to understand the needs and desires of our chapter members along with being ableto incorporate requests from Alpha State and from our International Society. During the exec meeting,we filled out a chapter wellness report and found our chapter to be in high standing. One area ofconcern, though, is the need to offer membership to more outstanding educators. Debbie has startedworking on the Annie Award and officers together reviewed points for the Pace Award which will bementioned at the January meeting.

January 2013 is the beginning of a fresh start, a clean slate, a new year. Now is the time if youhavent already, to mark your calendars with dates for upcoming meetings and other planned events.Do you have a prospective member that you would like to bring to our January meeting? Time is

running out to turn in their name and information form that needs to be submitted to Julie Gehring.Think about going to state convention in Austin and or southwest conference in Branson, Missouri.Registration forms will soon be available on our Society website. Surf the Texas State and the Societywebsites regularly to garner information.

But most of all, reset and rejuvenate yourself and look forward to an exciting year ahead.

Appreciatively,Linda


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Food, Fun and Holiday Fellowship


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Personal Growth and ServicesCommittee

We have many projects planned for this year.

1) Supporting Early Career Educators - We

will be collecting supplies in the spring to

make Welcome Boxes for new teachers.

More details will be given later.

2) Schools for Africa We want to raise

money to contribute to this worthy cause.

Please bring used DVDs and games to

every function.

3) Parks Youth Ranch We will besupplying bulletin boards for the youth.

We are looking for business partners to

help us fund this. More details will be

given to you soon.

4) DKG Week of Caring - We will be

addressing cards to members we havent

seen at our meetings lately. Please bring

Thinking of You Cards or blank cards to

our February meeting so we can address

cards and add personal notes.

5) Cinderella/CinderfellaContact Eva

Fackaday, founder,

([email protected]) to make

contributions. We will send out

information in the spring about how to

sponsor or volunteer.

Go to www.alphastatetexas.org and look upheading for publications to receive the latestinformation about our State Organization.

Health Starts HerePassport Fair

Kick Start a Healthy New Year!

Looking for ways to make healthy choices inyour diet? Stop by Whole Foods Market andtaste items throughout the store that are

nutrient dense, plant strong and delicious.Pick up a Health Starts Here Passport andvisit each department. Once you reach yourfinal stop, use your passport to enter to win a$50 Basic Pantry Makeover. Go towww.wholefoodsmarket.com for further info.

Birthday Girls!

La Grange Field Trip

We have Saturday, March 23rd as a field tripdate to go to La Grange on ourcalendar. People say it is a great place tosee the bluebonnets, to visit the Czech andQuilt museums plus to buy homemadeGerman kolaches. We are not sure howmany people are interested in going, so willbring it up at the January meeting. Wellneed a volunteer to chair this field trip.

DOWNLOADthe DKG APP from the Apple

App Store or Google PlayStore

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Stephanie Bailey 1/3Kathy Nelson 1/7Terry Harris 1/9Mary Jo Voitle 1/9

Nancy Shafer 1/13

Mary Louise Ivey 1/16Harriet Mantini 1/29
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Artists to be Highlighted on the Website

Photography, paintings, dance, music in allforms and more contribute to the myriad ofoptions for the Arts and Humanities Jury toreview and offer for posting on the Societywebsite. As the Jury members move forwarddeveloping criteria for selection, creatingevaluation materials and working online, youmay want to be thinking if this is somethingyou might want to pursue. More informationto follow in future newsletters; meanwhile,you may want to surf the DKG website for

updates.

TECHNOLOGY:Online Tools Sync and Capture

Everything

Evernote is a web-based note taking toolthat is also available as an app for tabletsand smartphones. Evernote capturesanything from recording audio to photos,from website pages to scanned documentsand allows the user to find thingsquickly. Basic accounts are free. Saveideas, record audio, grab websites and addimages to note-taking quickly andeasily. Sync notes and notebooks across alldevices. Search within Evernote by

keyword, tags or scanned images andfiles. Evernote offers add-ins to help makeall note-taking and idea generationeasier. For the i-Pad, users may also addEvernote Peek to help create studymaterials from notes or Penultimate forsketching and scribbling handwritten notesto store within an Evernote notebook.

DKG EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION wascreated in 1964 as a non profit corporationthat encourages the continuation ofinnovative and creative educationalopportunities. Google this to find out moredetailed information. This foundationannually AWARDS MONEY for educational

projects, grants professional developmentawards ( ie. Lucile Cornetet Fund deadlineFeb.1st and Seminar Awards ) and presentsin even numbered years a seminar for DKGmembers and guests titled Seminar inPurposseful Living.

Applications for international scholarships,available on the society website, are dueFebruary 1, 2013 for the 2013-2014academic year. Members applying for a first

or second Masters would receive$6,000. Members pursuing doctoraldegrees receive $10,000.

Lucile Cornetet Awards

Would you like to have monetary assistancein professional opportunities? Hurry andapply for the Lucile Cornetet Individual

Awards by February 1, 2013. Otherdeadlines are the first of May andSeptember. See also Seminar AwardApplication due November 1.

Awards will fund participation for employededucators who meet the stated criteria andwill apply towards:

Conferences Seminars Lecture Series National certification Online courses Workshops and other non-degree

programs

Find further information and application athttp://www.dkgef.org/
http://www.dkgef.org/http://www.dkgef.org/http://www.dkgef.org/


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Delta Kappa Gamma Lambda Sigma Chapter

Wednesday, November 12, 2012, 4:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m.

At Austin Parkway Elementary

The regular meeting was held at Austin Parkway Elementary and was called to order at 4:42 p.m. by thepresident, the first and second vice presidents and the secretary being present. A membership quorum wasdetermined to be present.

The opening of the meeting included: Welcoming of guests, a special thank you to Veterans, and the Pledgeof Allegiance. A moment of silence and a poem reading was held for chapter member, Marylaura Merritt whopassed away November 3, 2012. Mary Ann Dolezal presented the chapter Angel Award to Peggy Norman.Officer reports given: The recording secretary presented the opportunity to correct the October 17, 2012meeting minutes previously published in the November newsletter. The minutes were approved as written.The first vice-president discussed upcoming chapter events: attending the Brookwood Christmas Pageant onDecember 1st , the Holiday Appetizer Buffet at member Dawn Westfalls home on December 7 th and the nextregular meeting scheduled for Saturday, January 12th at the Reddy Cardiac Wellness Center, 3519 TownCenter Blvd., Sugar Land, TX with lunch to follow at Blu restaurant.

Committees reporting were: The Yearbook Committee chair presented the new yearbook to each memberpresent and discussed the components. A Fundraiser Committee member discussed the upcoming EducationScholarship Fundraiser being held at Panera Bread Bakery Caf on November 16th from 5-8 p.m. in which10% of the sales will be donated. The Fundraising Committee also reported $116 made on the sale ofmember donated, used DVDs. The Personal Growth & Services chair asked for any remaining book donationsfor the United Through Reading Military Program. She announced that Christmas cards will be written forWorld Fellowship recipients at our Christmas party. She also discussed the Schools for Africa Project statingthat individual contributions were welcome and tax deductible, referring members to the brochure attached tothe agenda for more information.

There was discussion that our chapter make a donation to the Schools for Africa Project. Cathie Ritchie madethe motion that $50 be donated by the chapter to the Schools for Africa Project. The motion was secondedand a majority vote of members accepted this action. Discussion was held that the donation be made inmemory of member, Marylaura Merritt. Mary Ann Dolezal made a motion to amend that the donation be madein the name of Marylaura Merritt. The amended motion that $50 be donated by the chapter to the Schools ofAfrica Project in the name of Marylaura Merritt was seconded and a majority vote of members adopted thisamended motion. It was further discussed that we consider an additional donation later in the year whenfundraising results are known.

The Program Committee chair presented the Lambda Sigma choir and they dedicated their Circle of Lifeperformance in memory of Marylaura Merritt. Next, the chair introduced Mary Prine, who presented aPowerPoint of her work with Sanctuary Fellowship and the Jubilee Fellowship Church in Africa to build schoolsand sponsor children to attend.

Announcements were made as follows: Marylaura Merritts obituary in the November 8th Houston Chronicle.Executive Board will meet December 15th. Special thanks to guests attending, speaker Mary Prine, choir forperformance, hospitality committee for dcor & snacks, Program Committee for programming efforts,Communications Committee for recent publicity, and Austin Parkway for allowing use of library for meeting.Drawing and door prize winners announced.

The president adjourned the meeting at 6:18 p.m.

Harriet MantiniRecording Secretary

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