My DKG Harvest Basket
With the freezing overnight temperatures most of the garden harvest is over. I don’t have a very big vegetable garden because of a voracious deer population, but my husband grows a few potatoes and we have two peach trees. That provides enough work and entertainment. Both ventures produced well this year.
My DKG harvest basket is full of reminders and gratitude. I love hearing from your chapter, in emails, in articles in the Peaks and Plains, or in person when I get to attend one of your meetings. I still need meeting schedules and yearbooks from some chapters. You can certainly send it in digital format – [email protected]
Kudos to the Membership Team and Beth Barzdukas for an informative update at the Fall Board meeting; a brief power-point on membership categories that has been sent out to chapter presidents; and for the lovely recognition of our 50-year members.
Now is the time to review STAR Chapter requirements and to take steps to help your chapter be a 3 or 4 STAR. Find a member or form a team to get your “form” turned in on time. I know we have more 4 STAR chapters than we recognize every year.
Be thinking about donating money for World Fellowships; Schools For Africa; and State Scholarships, as well as the Emergency Fund. Make your checks payable to Colorado Delta Kappa Gamma Society and on the reference line put the name of the fund you are benefitting. Send to State Treasurer Lily Vigil. Over $300 was raised for World Fellowships at the Fall Board Meeting! Thank you for your generosity.
Congratulations on getting through the new International Dues process successfully. If you make payments on your dues, you should begin soon after the first of the year, as all dues must now be paid by June 30. Your chapter may want to set an earlier date to get everything turned in on time. Colorado had new members in August, September and October. There are many more Key Women Educators waiting to be recognized, and we need their talents and ideas.
The 2019-20 school year is well underway, and our active teaching sisters need our support with notes and words of encouragement; or possibly gifts of our time in their classrooms or a gift card or a casserole to enjoy when they don’t have time to cook. You know what to do – if not, ask. Active Teachers – don’t be too proud to ask, or receive help.
One last BIG reminder. The biennium is coming to a close for your chapter officers. Are you mentoring key women to step up to the next level of leadership? Current officers need to keep in mind that when your term ends, your obligation continues. You need to be there with encouragement and reminders that will make everyone successful.
Plans are already underway for an outstanding Spring Board Meeting at the Downtown Rec Center in Greeley, Colorado on Mar 21, 2020. Mark the date on your calendars as an important event to attend.
Team chairmen put your teams to work on articles for the Peaks and Plains or presentations for the Spring Board or the Leadership Conference.
Delta Kappa Gamma sisters are so professional, giving, supportive, creative, helpful, caring, hardworking, surprising, talented, unique and so much more. Just to think about all of you and your chapters and schools and communities fills my DKG Harvest Basket to overflowing with gratitude that I know you and can count myself as one of you.
With the freezing overnight temperatures most of the garden harvest is over. I don’t have a very big vegetable garden because of a voracious deer population, but my husband grows a few potatoes and we have two peach trees. That provides enough work and entertainment. Both ventures produced well this year.
My DKG harvest basket is full of reminders and gratitude. I love hearing from your chapter, in emails, in articles in the Peaks and Plains, or in person when I get to attend one of your meetings. I still need meeting schedules and yearbooks from some chapters. You can certainly send it in digital format – [email protected]
Kudos to the Membership Team and Beth Barzdukas for an informative update at the Fall Board meeting; a brief power-point on membership categories that has been sent out to chapter presidents; and for the lovely recognition of our 50-year members.
Now is the time to review STAR Chapter requirements and to take steps to help your chapter be a 3 or 4 STAR. Find a member or form a team to get your “form” turned in on time. I know we have more 4 STAR chapters than we recognize every year.
Be thinking about donating money for World Fellowships; Schools For Africa; and State Scholarships, as well as the Emergency Fund. Make your checks payable to Colorado Delta Kappa Gamma Society and on the reference line put the name of the fund you are benefitting. Send to State Treasurer Lily Vigil. Over $300 was raised for World Fellowships at the Fall Board Meeting! Thank you for your generosity.
Congratulations on getting through the new International Dues process successfully. If you make payments on your dues, you should begin soon after the first of the year, as all dues must now be paid by June 30. Your chapter may want to set an earlier date to get everything turned in on time. Colorado had new members in August, September and October. There are many more Key Women Educators waiting to be recognized, and we need their talents and ideas.
The 2019-20 school year is well underway, and our active teaching sisters need our support with notes and words of encouragement; or possibly gifts of our time in their classrooms or a gift card or a casserole to enjoy when they don’t have time to cook. You know what to do – if not, ask. Active Teachers – don’t be too proud to ask, or receive help.
One last BIG reminder. The biennium is coming to a close for your chapter officers. Are you mentoring key women to step up to the next level of leadership? Current officers need to keep in mind that when your term ends, your obligation continues. You need to be there with encouragement and reminders that will make everyone successful.
Plans are already underway for an outstanding Spring Board Meeting at the Downtown Rec Center in Greeley, Colorado on Mar 21, 2020. Mark the date on your calendars as an important event to attend.
Team chairmen put your teams to work on articles for the Peaks and Plains or presentations for the Spring Board or the Leadership Conference.
Delta Kappa Gamma sisters are so professional, giving, supportive, creative, helpful, caring, hardworking, surprising, talented, unique and so much more. Just to think about all of you and your chapters and schools and communities fills my DKG Harvest Basket to overflowing with gratitude that I know you and can count myself as one of you.