The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International Nu Chapter#13 Area VII Alpha State, Texas

Volume 21 No. 1 July, 2014 Hays & Blanco Counties

The Delta Kappa Gamma Society I nternational promotes professional
and personal growth of women educators and excellence in education.

Leading Women Educators Impacting Education Worldwide
Editor: Mary Nabers
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Dear Nu Ladies,
Your 2014-2016 newly elected officers would like to invite you
to a
Meet and Greet Tea
this summer, to be held before our September meeting.
We hope you will join us for this come and go gathering,
where we can visit with each other in a relaxing manner.
Details follow so be sure to "Save the Date."
Have a wonderful rest of Summer.
Sandra Morales
President-elect 2014-2016



MEET AND GREET TEA

SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 2014
2:00 P.M.---4:00 P.M.
105 SENDERO ARBOLADO
WIMBERLEY, TEXAS
512-847-8808

*How do you like the new newsletter name?
Straight from Sandra
Dear Friends,

What an exciting few weeks we, in Nu Chapter, have enjoyed. The May meeting in
Blanco was filled with numerous activities. We celebrated our 84th birthday (with cake!),
had a Founders Day Celebration and we initiated two lovely ladies. We also welcomed a
transfer member, Wanda Frix, honored our 50 year member, Mary Nabers, and, we
installed our new officers for the 2014-2016 biennium. The Blanco and Johnson City
ladies treated us to a wonderfully delicious meal with lovely table decorations, and all of
you present made the evening even more special. Thank you.

The fun continued in Lubbock when six of our members traveled there to attend the 85th
Alpha State Convention. All six attended many breakout sessions and each has brought
back many new and innovative ideas to share with the rest of you.

Your Executive Board met in late June to plan the programs and other events for the next
year. They will share all of this with you at our September meeting.

But, before the September meeting, we hope you will attend our August Meet and Greet
Tea. And, I know our Area 7 Coordinator, Laura Packard would be happy to see you at
the Area Workshop.

So, the fun continues and you all are invited to participate. Wont you please think of
inviting others who may also enjoy being a part of our organization and bring their names
to our August tea?

In the meantime, have a wonderful summer and a fabulous 4th of July!
Sandra

Sandra and Barbara,
incoming and outgoing
presidents of Nu
Chapter, with the rest of
the group behind them:
Maary, Kathy, Loretta,
Nadyne





2014-2016 OFFICERS INSTALLED

President: Sandra Morales
1
st
. Vice President: Loretta Eiben
2
nd
. Vice President: Charlotte
Evans
Recording Secretary: Kathy
Carriker
Corresponding Secretary: Robin
Estepp
Treasurer: Tonda Frady
Parliamentarian: Barbara Pevoto.



Congratulations to Nu Chapter!
ANNIE
Nu Chapter is PACE
one of 7 of 9
chaptersin Area 7
which received
an Annie Award
at the State Convention in June and
was recognized in the conference
program.
Thanks to First Vice President,
Cheryl Blake, who submitted the
On-Hands Social
Media presentation as our
selection for consideration by the
state committee.
Cheryl prepared the Annie Board for display at the state convention. Also a big thanks to
our webmaster Nadyne Gartman, and her daughter and granddaughter who spearheaded
the social media presentation at our February meeting, which was held at the new Kyle
library.
And we won the Presidents Award for Chapter Excellence for our overall activities this
year! We also received Five Star newsletter and Early Bird Yearbook awards.
This has been a big year for Nu Chapter and we look forward to the next 2 years
under the direction of our new Nu officers.


Register NOW: 2014 Area 7 Fall Workshop
Saturday, September 13, Elgin, Tx

Tonda is no longer accepting $10. registration fees from members wanting to register for
our Area 7 Workshop to be held in Elgin on Saturday, September 13, 2014. It will be held
at Elgin High School. The deadline for sending Tonda your fee was July 1
st.
Now you
will have to register with our Area Coordinator, Laura Packard, or her designated
workshop treasurer. If you wait and pay registration on-site, the cost will be $15.

At the time of the last planning meeting, Laura indicated that we now have over 20
workshops scheduled. One of the presenters will be our soon-to-be president, Sandra
Morales. Other Nu members presenting include Mary Nabers and Susan Pulis. Nu will
be introducing some of the presenters at the meeting and will be assisted by volunteers
from other chapters also in Area 7. If you are planning to attend and want to represent
Nu Chapter as a session facilitator, please let Barbara Pevoto know asap, since she is
handling that committee.

The theme for the fall workshop will echo our state president, Nancy Newtons state
theme: Expand the Vision: Educate, Inspire, Encourage. Jayne Brainard, Kappa, El
Paso member, has written a theme statement that will be shared during the fall workshop.
The Fall Workshop is well underway in its planning stage and appears that it will be well
worth attending.

One of the DKG Commandments:
Delta Kappa Gamma members never say NO.


THANK YOU, SISTERS
When my home was burglarized
in January, I was devastated to
have lost all my DKG pins. But
mindful of our sisters needing,
Nadyne gave me a pin from a fifty year
member who was initiated in 1935, the
year I was born. And Barbara had a
presidents pin for me. I dont know who
else was involved in the decision to give
that to me (I know Tonda said something
to me), but I thank Barbara and all the rest
of my sisters in NU Chapter. I could go to my fifty year convention fully dressed.
Thanks, Mary


Transfer Wanda Frix
Nu chapter is blessed to have a fifty year member transfer in.
Wanda Frix is presently living in Kyle. She travelled to the May
meeting with Susan Pulis and Nadyne Gartman. We welcome
you, Wanda, with your years of experience to give us new ideas
and guide us in carrying out Delta Kappa Gamma ideals.






Book Review
By Mary
The Calligraphers
Daughter
By Eugenia Kim
The Calligraphers Daughter is not a
great book, but it is an interesting read. The
calligrapher lives in Korea and faces Japans
ever restrictive rules to eliminate Korean culture
and turn Koreans into Japanese subjects both in
body and mind. As a mild protest, when his
daughter is born in 1910, he refuses to give her a
name.
His daughter then is given the name
Najin by an American missionary, who confuses
the mothers home origin with the daughters
name. Not having a name was not the problem
we would think, however, as a child was often
referred to as Hans daughter or the daughter of
the woman from Nah-jin, her mother.
Mostly the story is told by Najin, but
occasional chapters reflect the point of view of
her father, her mother, or her spoiled younger
brother. Najin does not take easily to the quiet
demeanor of a Korean woman who always defers
to the men in her life. Instead, she questions and
bursts with lively action and interest. Luckily,
her mother manipulates the father so that Najin
can go to school. She even arranges that Najin
can get to know her future husband before
agreeing to an arranged marriage. Najin is allow
to work; she becomes a teacher and obstetrician.
Most girls were not so lucky.
The novel covers Korea from 1910 to the
end of World War II, a period of 35 years of
Japanese occupation of Korea. Unfortunately for
those of us who were around in 1948 and the
50s, we know that the Korean War soon
followed. I was in high school and college then..
What was so interesting to me was the
Korean culture, which drew upon Chinese but
was distinctly separate from Japanese.
Calligrapher Han looked down on the Japanese
as recent upstarts. Eugenia Kim is the daughter
of Korean immigrants. She reveals a number of
surprising facts about Korea: A vast number of
Koreans are Christian, originally converted by
the Bible alone without missionaries or any
organized church. It is one of the oldest nations
in history. Koreans invented moveable type long
before Guttenberg. Koreas domination by Japan
was the result of machinations by Russia, Great
Britain, China, and the US around 1900.
Najins experiences in the Korean royal
place, her time in jail, her ingenuity in making
meals out of nothing, her virtual slavery to her
in-laws, her difficulty in learning to express open
affection because of her early trainingall these
show the many facets of Korean life in the first
part of the last century.


Member News:
Pam Starr: I have been retired almost 2 years now. I retired and had a little over a
year with my mom before she passed away. She went to heaven in October 2013. I am
now busy taking care of her estate and of course the ranch. I have turned in the heels for
tennis shoes and boots! I have learned to run a skid loader and etc! I still substitute and
substitute bus driving at Richland Springs.

Mary Nabers enjoyed her granddaughters wedding on May 25 at Red Corral
Ranch. The wedding was at 6:00 and the rain stopped at 5:45! By the way, the church
ladies LOVED working on the Bible puzzle at the retreat. Great door prize, Nadyne.

Laverne Rydel: Mitch has been having trouble with his pacemaker/defibrillater the
last couple of days. Tests showed that a wire has been pulled out of his heart. The
pacemaker was disconnected by a machine, and so now he will go back to the hospital on
Monday for repair surgery.Just don't think that I want to leave him on Tues. evening,
Really will miss all of you (and the good food!)
Happy summer and love to all, LaVerne

While in Lubbock Nadyne Gartman had breakfast with her granddaughter, who is
coming to Austin to intern with Nadyenes daughter Melynda, whom we met in March..
By the way, Nadyne has a new address: 711 Scrutchins, Kyle TX 78640.

FYI, Area 7 AC Laura Packard has a new home. Her new contact information is 831
Westbury Lane, Georgetown, TX 78633 lpackard421@gmail.com. This is a new email
address which has been made necessary by the move. So please update your information
for Laura. Laura, we hope you enjoy your new home!

NU Initiates Two New Members Two new faces will brighten our meetings next year.
We initiated Jenny Turney and Connie Brooks at the May meeting in Blanco. Look at
their pretty faces so you will recognize them in September! Welcome,
New Nu members!


New Nu
Faces!
Connie
Brooks
and Jenny
Turney





Initiates with Evelyn.


Kathy prepares for one of the four
ceremonies/ celebrations of the May
meeting! She carried them off
beautifully





Barbara gets a gift for her term as
President.
Some of you guessed correctly that I
am the one with the white top and
teal dress. Others were confused that
I was so thin! But it was 196450
years ago!
Mary
Alpha State
Convention
June 19-21, 2014
And this is todayReceiving a rose and poem for 50
years membership, 2014!














Mary with one f her former students
from Port Lavaca, Jacque Rudd (who
is on the state Technology
Committee), and Alpha State President
Nancy Newton at the reception for 50
year members. Jacque has also been
president of Epsilon Pi, where Mary
was initiated in Port Lavaca.


Here is your
delegation to the
State Convention:
Loretta, Sandra,
Barbara, Kathy,
Nadyne, and Mary



















Loretta studied all the program ideas to bring
us super meetings next year. Were aiming for
another ANNIE and PACE!






Check out news and photos on the web! Get the Minutes on the web.
http://nuchaptertxdkg.weebly.com

Be sure to register for the Workshop, Sept. 13. We can make
carpool plans at the Meet and Greet Tea on August 24, from 2-4.