PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Look ahead with me as I look forward to the remaining three meetings of our first year of this biennium. We will be learning about education in China from Carmen Morrell in February, learning about research and treatment of neuromuscular diseases from Susan Whatley, Coordinator, MDA Health Care Service, in March, and learning the latest about public education K-12 from Judy Beasley Whitehill, TEA Membership Department, in April when we also observe Founders’ Day. I think we have an exciting spring ahead of us! I look forward to sharing it with you!!
ALPHA PI OFFICERS 2006-2008 President Martha Scarbrough ALPHA PI MEETINGS 2006-2007 August 14.……… 4:30 pm……….. Manchester CONGRATULATIONS--- --- to Alpha Pi Chapter for receiving the Yearbook Award with Highest Honor. The Alpha Pi 2006-2007 Yearbook was awarded 50 points of a possible 50 points. A special thanks toAliceHuskey for her attention to detail and her word processing skills in preparing our yearbook. --- to Alpha Pi Chapter for having its chapter website officially online. The official Delta Kappa Gamma seal appears on the Alpha Pi chapter homepage showing that Alpha Pi is a 2007-2008 Certified Site. Alpha Pi now has a link from the Xi State website. In Tennessee, only 11 chapters out of 82 chapters have an official website. Aspecial thanks to Vicki Young for her dedication to bringing the website to life and for her technology skill in creating the unique design and potential of the Alpha Pi site. --- to Sarah Hailey for receiving a scholarship that covers the registration fee, airfare, and hotel to attend the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions Across America (CADCA) forum inWashington, D.C. February 11-16. This forum presents an opportunity to learn what wonderful things, research based and data driven, are happening across the country to fight alcohol and drug use. ALPHA PI WEBSITE: Remember the Alpha Pi website at: http://www.deltakappagamma.org/TN-alphapi/ Thanks to Vicki Young for developing the chapter website and for maintaining it. Watch for Alpha Pi information throughout the year! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!! JANUARY January 3 Joanna Miller FEBRUARY February 14 Jane Fisher
February 19 Vicky Dixon |
AGENDA February Meeting 4:30
Initiation of New Member To be initiated at the November meeting are COMMITTEE CORNER Members of the Rules Committee, Chair Carmen Morrell, have reviewed the Alpha Pi Rules for possible revisions. The proposed changes have been mailed to the membership and will be discussed at the February meeting. Voting will occur in March. Please review the proposed changes and contact Carmen Morrell, Linda Jernigan or Martha Scarbrough with suggestions or questions. XI STATE NOTES XI STATE LEADERSHIP SEMINAR will be held on March 30-31 in the Cool Springs area of Franklin . Applications can be found on the Xi State website. Thirty participants will be selected to attend. XI STATE CONVENTION will be held June 7 – 9 in Sewanee on the campus of The University of the South. Registration forms will appear in the April issue of the Xi State News.
??? MEMBER MYSTERY ??? Who is the member that --- A--- likes to shop in outlet malls, prefers easy listening music, has spinach as her favorite vegetable and apples as her favorite fruit, does tae bo, and fell off her platform shoes in front of her sixth period class? B---likes iron skillet chocolate pie, is a Capricorn, has 3 children 1 dog and 3 cats, likes weeping willow trees, has worked as a life guard, and is an only child just like her husband? C---includes scrapbooking in her hobbies, likes to shop at Target, likes football and UT, prefers Dr. Pepper, and has been a Pampered Chef Consultant? D---is a Virgo, has cocker spaniels named Rex and Jake, enjoys quilting, worked at AEDC as a math-data-aide, and has a website with over 50 songs and poems she has written to teach math? DISCOVER THESE MEMBERS AT THE FEBRUARY MEETING! HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY TO ALL! |
