President's Message...
Greetings from Ann:
I hope your year is going well! It is exciting to
move into our program year to re-connect in fellowship with you, a key
woman educator in the Fargo-Moorhead area.
The latest Delta Kappa Gamma NEWS announced our new vision
statement: Leading women educators impacting education worldwide.
This statement is a concise way of telling about our honor
society of 115,000 key women educators in 16 countries that provides
professional and personal growth opportunities for members at all
levels of education.
We are challenged by International to add new members this
year. We are encouraged to consider inviting members from an
educational environment not currently represented in our chapter.
Invite prospective members to our February meeting. Bring
recommendation of new member forms to our March 7 meeting.
Encourage prospective members to learn more about Delta Kappa
Gamma Society International by attending an Informational Tea at Leslie
Hagemeister’s on March 14 at 10:30 a.m.
Beta Chapter’s 2009 programs are off to a musical
start with our first meeting held in conjunction with “A
Celebration of Women and their Music” on Sat. Feb. 21. Deb
Jenkins inspired this meeting when she talked to us last spring.
It will be a fun way to spend an evening. We are encouraged
to bring Dr. Seuss books to this meeting for the Dr. Seuss Birthday
Party that will be held at the YWCA Shelter.
On March 7 we will learn about and practice physical
fitness at the Waterford’s Fitness Center. Their address is
1200 Harwood Drive in south Fargo. It is east of Courts Plus
Fitness, right off South University Drive and 34 Avenue South.
In April we will discuss the book “Three Cups of
Tea” by Greg Mortenson. It tells about his efforts to build
schools for girls in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Read the book, but
come to the meeting even if you haven’t. Please let me know
if you have recommendations for other books about Afghanistan to
include in a list of suggested readings. My Email is ann.braaten@ndsu.edu.
During our May meeting we will initiate our new members
and we will learn about Camp Casey. Several members of Beta
Chapter are very active with Camp Casey, a camp for children with
cancer. It will be great to hear about their work and to learn
how we can be supportive of their efforts.
Please join me in offering our thanks to the ad hoc
committee for writing standing rules for our chapter. Members are
Connie Knain, Alice Jondahl, Muriel Vincent, and Verna LaBounty.
These rules will guide our chapter in its work. Take time
to read them and offer suggestions as the committee reviews them with
us.
Ann W. Braaten
2/05/2009
