Donna Houser Celebrating Kappa’s 65 th birthday at the state convention Lillian, Mary and Donna at the Presentation and Processional of Chapter Presidents during the Anniversary Banquet. KAPPA KAPERS SEPTEMBER 2012 VOL. # XXXII ISSUE #1 President’s Message by Donna Houser Fundraiser Reminder Kappa will again be selling coupon booklets for Bon Ton’s Community Days November 9 and 10. Watch for yours in the mail. Remember that this is the fundraiser for our grant money. Let’s hope that this is as great as ones in the past. Thank you in advance for your support! Kappa Chapter Four-chapter meeting with Pres. Louann Shrader, Diana Mettler, Lillian Rowland, and Pat Crouse April 21 2012 Welcome, Kappa Sisters, to the beginning of a new and exciting biennium. Your Kappa officers met in June and planned a year of interesting and motivating programs and projects that reflect the seven basic purposes of our Society. Kappa celebrated its 65 th birthday this past April. Alpha Alpha State celebrated its 75 th birthday last January, and DKG Society International celebrated its 83 rd birthday in May. Our Society has an impressive history that reflects extraordinary successes in uniting, honoring, advancing, stimulating and supporting women educators in 17 countries. Japan will soon be our 18 th member. My vision for this biennium is all about ongoing S.U.C.C.E.S.S. S upport early-career educators (ECE) in Kappa’s school districts; U tilize the resources offered by DKG to enhance the quality of our chapter; Increase C ommunity awareness of our society by Broadcasting the Buzz; C elebrate the potential of new, young members, veteran members and young educators in our chapter’s area school districts; E ngage every member in our meetings, programs, projects and business. S upport the Schools for Africa Project (SFA), and provide S cholarship grants for high school seniors pursuing a career in education. As your president I am here to serve Kappa in a “servant leadership” capacity. I will help you achieve our biennium goals by assisting in planning, coaching and empowering members to manage our chapter as you feel is most appropriate. I will emphasize the achievements and performances of our members in our chapter, our society, our schools and community-at-large. In return, I expect each member to join me in a “servant leadership” capacity which means: (1) We will all work together to achieve our goals by supporting our chapter projects by volunteering your time and/or through financial contributions; (2) Members are expected to attend as many meetings as possible. The date, time and location for each meeting are listed in your yearbook for the entire year – put them on your calendar now; (3) I encourage you to attend at least one society event beyond the local level in this biennium, i.e., fall area conference, seminar of purpose, arts retreat, state convention, northeast regional convention, international convention. If you’ve never attended a Society event outside of our local chapter, then you’re sitting on the train, but it’s never left the station; (4) Members will erase their apprehension about taking leadership roles in our chapter. A career in education means that we have been in leadership roles since we took our first step inside a classroom; (5) Members will inform the chapter president whenever you have received recognition, accomplished a goal, presented a workshop, published a paper, received an award or certificate, completed a grad course, completed a degree, received a great evaluation, raised your students’ test scores, etc. We want to celebrate our accomplishments with each other, but we need to know what they are; (6) Members will choose to be joyful!!
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Donna Houser
Celebrating Kappa’s 65th birthday
at the state convention
Lillian, Mary and Donna at the Presentation and
Processional of Chapter Presidents during the
Anniversary Banquet.
KAPPA KAPERS
SEPTEMBER 2012 VOL. # XXXII
ISSUE #1
President’s Message by Donna Houser
Fundraiser Reminder Kappa will again be selling coupon booklets for
Bon Ton’s Community Days November 9 and
10. Watch for yours in the mail. Remember that
this is the fundraiser for our grant money. Let’s
hope that this is as great as ones in the past.
Thank you in advance for your support!
Kappa Chapter
Four-chapter meeting with
Pres. Louann Shrader, Diana
Mettler, Lillian Rowland, and
Pat Crouse April 21 2012
Welcome, Kappa Sisters, to the beginning of a new and exciting biennium. Your Kappa
officers met in June and planned a year of interesting and motivating programs and projects
that reflect the seven basic purposes of our Society. Kappa celebrated its 65th
birthday this
past April. Alpha Alpha State celebrated its 75th
birthday last January, and DKG Society
International celebrated its 83rd
birthday in May. Our Society has an impressive history
that reflects extraordinary successes in uniting, honoring, advancing, stimulating and
supporting women educators in 17 countries. Japan will soon be our 18th
member.
My vision for this biennium is all about ongoing S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Support early-career
educators (ECE) in Kappa’s school districts; Utilize the resources offered by DKG to
enhance the quality of our chapter; Increase Community awareness of our society by
Broadcasting the Buzz; Celebrate the potential of new, young members, veteran members
and young educators in our chapter’s area school districts; Engage every member in our
meetings, programs, projects and business. Support the Schools for Africa Project (SFA),
and provide Scholarship grants for high school seniors pursuing a career in education.
As your president I am here to serve Kappa in a “servant leadership” capacity. I will help
you achieve our biennium goals by assisting in planning, coaching and empowering
members to manage our chapter as you feel is most appropriate. I will emphasize the
achievements and performances of our members in our chapter, our society, our schools
and community-at-large. In return, I expect each member to join me in a “servant
leadership” capacity which means: (1) We will all work together to achieve our goals by
supporting our chapter projects by volunteering your time and/or through financial
contributions; (2) Members are expected to attend as many meetings as possible. The
date, time and location for each meeting are listed in your yearbook for the entire year – put
them on your calendar now; (3) I encourage you to attend at least one society event
beyond the local level in this biennium, i.e., fall area conference, seminar of purpose, arts
retreat, state convention, northeast regional convention, international convention. If you’ve
never attended a Society event outside of our local chapter, then you’re sitting on the train,
but it’s never left the station; (4) Members will erase their apprehension about taking
leadership roles in our chapter. A career in education means that we have been in
leadership roles since we took our first step inside a classroom; (5) Members will inform
the chapter president whenever you have received recognition, accomplished a goal,
presented a workshop, published a paper, received an award or certificate, completed a grad
course, completed a degree, received a great evaluation, raised your students’ test scores,
etc. We want to celebrate our accomplishments with each other, but we need to know what
they are; (6) Members will choose to be joyful!!
It is time to collect membership dues for Kappa Chapter.
Kappa Chapter dues will not increase this year. Dues for
Active members are $77.00 and $39.00 for Reserved
members. Please send money to treasurer, Marlene Moul
anytime before October 1, 2012. Dues need to go to the
State Treasure by October 15. Make checks payable to:
Delta Kappa Gamma International. Please be prompt so
Marlene does not need to call individual members to remind
them.
Please note, we do recognize that dues may be a hardship for
some members. We do not want to lose any of our valued and
loyal members. A fund has been established in memory of
Helen Kelley to assist our members if this is a hardship.
Please contact Marlene Moul if you have any questions or
want to inquire about this opportunity.
Please send dues to:
Marlene F. Moul
Box 100
Plainfield, PA 17081
Dues Breakdown
Local State International
Active dues $17 $17 $40
Reserve dues $9 $7 $20
Scholarship $0.80 $0.20
World Fellowship Fund $2.00
Congratulations and Thank You to Carol Swift
Kappa Chapter thanks Carol Swift for her outstanding quality
of work compiling, editing and publishing our Kappa Kapers
Newsletter. For the past several years, including this year,
Kappa has been recognized and awarded an achievement
certificate for publishing one of the best newsletters in Alpha
Alpha State. Carol and her husband, Bob, have plans to move
to Florida in the near future, so Carol requested to turn over
her newsletter duties to another Kappa member. Crystal
Header has agreed to be our Kappa Kapers editor. Committee
chairs and officers will need to send your articles to Crystal at