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pa Gamma cares and ap-
preciates all that they do.
(Well also provide some
information about Beta
Zeta and Delta KappaGamma, just in case they
have never heard of us
and are interested. OK, I
admit this is a bit of public
relations for our society,
but our sentiments are
genuine!) Wont you
please sign up to bake/buy
a few goodies? Ill have a
sign-up sheet at the Feb-
ruary meeting. Ill be glad
to handle the deliveries
(and anyone else who
would like to help can let
me know.)
By Karen Loeffler
I just love Valentines
Day! Its a great time to let
the ones you hold dear
know that they are lovedand appreciated. We all
love to hear that! Well, we
have the opportunity to
pass on this message to our
local teachers. As I men-
tioned at our January meet-
ing, DKG is asking our
members to have a Week
of Caring on March 3rd
9th. The vision for this pro-
ject is just to let our com-munity know that our
chapter cares and can im-
pact the state with our acts
of kindness and ser-
vice. (See the Lone Star
News Winter Edition
2012.) Beta Zeta chapter is
going to show our appreci-
ation to our local teachers
that week. (Its also TexasPublic Schools Week!)
Wouldnt it be a treat for
our teachers to have a tasty
snack waiting for them in
their teachers lounge?
Well have a nice note
along with the treats letting
them know that Delta Kap-
By Barbara Heinen
At Februarys
meeting we will learn about
a local program for adults
with special needs. Beth
Pyka and her daughters
Lindsey and Carrie will ex-
plain how Living Well Col-
lege began, about its pur-
pose, how it operates, how
these adults help our com-
munity, and how we can
help them.
Beth is a graduate of
Tivy High School and UTSA.She is the founder of Living
Well College and has served
as treasurer of the Living
Well College Board for the
last 5 years. Beth taught at St.
Marys School for twenty-
eight years and coached all
girls athletics for fourteen of
those years.
Lindsey and Carrie
are graduates of Fredericks-
burg High School and have
Our Presidents MessageMission Statement: The Delta Kappa Gamma Society Internaonal promotes profes-
sional and personal growth of women educators and excellence in educaon.
Vision Statement: Leading women educators impacng educaon worldwide.
FREDERICKSBURG, TEXAS
February 2013
Volume 21, Issue 5
Editor: Tammy Vitek
Next Meeng:
Monday, February 25, 2013
Fredericksburg ElementarySchool Library
4:00 p.m. Social Time
4:20 p.m. Meeng
Hostesses:
Dolores Klussmann, lead
Carolyn Kuhlmann
Paula Ahrendt
Helen Usener
Carolyn Oo
Patsy Hejl
Debbie Klein
Program: Living Well College
Presented by Beth Pyka and
daughters Carrie and Lindsey
Facilitators: Helen Usener, Amy
ONeil, and Beth Luckenbach
Purpose #6: To smulate the
personal and professionalgrowth of members and to
encourage their parcipaon in
appropriate programs of acon
Music: Make This Day!
Service: peanut buer for the
Fredericksburg Food Pantry;
items for Boys and Girls Club;
preschool books for the Needs
Council
Reminder: $7.50 for the
Founders Day Banquet andBeta Zeta Birthday Celebraon
Chapter website:
www.betazeta.weebly.com
State website:
www.alphastatetexas.org
Internaonal website:
www.dkg.org
Upcoming event:
84th
Texas State Convenon
Renaissance Hotel, Ausn, TX
June 20-22, 2013
THE DELTA KAPPA GAMMA SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL
BETA ZETA BUZZ
Our chapter cares
and can impact the
state with our acts of
kindness and ser-
vice.
Living Well and Loving It!
received many Special
Olympics medals. Duringthe program, Lindsey will
use a device to help her
speak clearly, and she is
very proud that now she
can be understood.
This program will
also inform members of
volunteer opportunities.
Remember to bring items
for the Boys and Girls Club
and preschool books for
the Needs Council.
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P A G E 2
Hickey Inspires Members at January MeetingBy Dolores Klussmann
At our January
meeting, Phyllis Hickey,
Operations Services Ad-
ministrator, International
Headquarters in Austin,
gave a very interesting and
informative presentation
about Delta Kappa Gam-
mas World Fellowship
Program established in
1948 and the newer
Schools for Africa Project
founded in 2004. She em-phasized that although the-
se are international pro-
grams our local chapter is
very much involved as a
part of their support as
stated in our vision state-
ment.
The first World
Fellowship recipients were
four German women edu-
cators who spent 8 weeksof study in Sweden during
the spring of 1948. This
was very soon after the end
of World War II. In 1972
the DKG World Founda-tion became part of the
Personal Growth and Ser-
vices Committee and two
years later part of the Con-
stitution. In the 70s, many
of our older members may
remember that it was cus-
tomary for chapters to do-
nate $1.00 per member
each year for the WFP. In a
brochure entitled 2012-
2013 World Fellowship
Recipients and Extension,
it was noted that two cur-
rent scholars are attending
universities in Texas
Texas State University and
Texas A & M University.
The Schools for
Africa Project, founded by
UNICEF, the Nelson Man-
dela Foundation, and the
Hamburg Society for the
Promotion of Democracy
and International Law in
2004, operates in eleven of
Africas neediest countries.One of these countries,
Mali, has been in the news
of late. Bordering Algeria,
there is much unrest in Mali
at present. Examples of
what donations can do
range from $10.00 which
provides a learner kit con-
taining a bag, stationery, a
mini atlas, and math tables
for one student in Mali to
$250.00 which provides
school-in-a-box kits con-
taining similar learning ma-
terials plus transportation
cost for 80 children in
Burkina Faso, a country
bordering Mali to the
south. A collection basket
was provided at this meet-
ing for members to donate
money for Schools for Afri-
ca Project, and memberswere inspired to donate
$187.00
efficiency, you will want
to be on time!Time: 6:00 p.m.
Date: Monday, March 25
Place: Memorial Presby-
terian Church Fellow-
ship Hall, 607 North
Milam Street, Freder-
icksburg, TX Meal:
By Barbara Heinen
When Annie and a
few of her friends are here
on Monday, March 25th,
members will learn about
the Delta Kappa Gamma
founders from the found-
ers themselves! As Annie
Webb Blanton conducted
her affairs with masterly
Soup, salad, and of
course . . . birthday cake!Price: $7.50. Please bring
your check made payable
to Beta Zeta to the Feb-
ruary meeting or mail to
Janet Hext, 804 West San
Antonio Street, Freder-
icksburg, TX 78624.
An Evening with Annie and Friends
At the Founders Day Banquet and Beta Zeta Birthday Celebration
Phyllis Hickey, Opera-
ons Services Adminis-
trator of DKG Interna-
onal Headquarters
Annie Webb Blanton and
friends are honored
guests at Beta Zetas
birthday celebraon.
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P A G E 3V O L U M E 2 1 , I S S U E 5
Beta Zeta Donations
for Children
By Janalee Hannemann
In the past two
months, you have all come
up with some great ideas of
items to share that will help
each and every child learn
something new . . . and to
just plain have fun!
$25 Wal-Mart gi cercate
$13.00 cash
1 pencil bag1 box crayons
1 card game
33 books
1 calendar
1 scker book
1 homework helper math
book
6 coloring and acvity books
2 game acvity books
For the Hill Country Commu-
nity Needs Council, you
brought:
They Say Its Your Birthday!
Tammy Vitek Feb. 3Helen Weiss Feb. 4Catherine Davis Feb. 17Vondell Jordan Feb. 25Andrea Hudson March 23
And in the end, it's not the years in
your life that count.
It's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
The BETA ZETA BUZZ
Collecng, producing, and disseminang informaon about
the goings on in the Beta Zeta hive.
Tammy Vitek, queen bee
Jerrie Dooley Dolores Klussmann
Carolyn Oo Janalee Hannemann
Helen Usener Barbara Heinen
(honorary worker bee)The Beta Zeta Buzz is published seven mes per year, September through April, ex-
cluding December. Send news items at least two weeks before the meeng to news-
leer editor Tammy Vitek at [email protected], or mail to 112 S. Llano Street,
Fredericksburg, TX 78624.
Peanut
Peanut Butter!
Sending out a
call for peanut buer!
The Fredericksburg
Food Pantry needs
nutrious foods to replenish the stock that al-
ways runs low aer the holiday season. Peanut
buer is always needed as a kid-favorite, pro-
tein-rich treat. Please bring a jar or two to the
February meeng. (You can also make a dona-
on, and we will buy some more jars to do-
nate.) Its one more way we can help the chil-
dren of Fredericksburg.
The Food Pantry is always in need of
food and cash donaons to help those who
need assistance with nourishing food for their
families. Call them at 830-997-9383 to make a
personal donaon.
4 games
11 coloring books
10 puzzles
23 books
$10.00 cash
Thank you for your
generosity which knows no
bounds!
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P A G E 4
By Jerrie Dooley
With thirty oth-
er excited DKG sisters, I
arrived at the 2013
Leadership Conference
in Dallas on Friday, Feb-
ruary 8th. Wide-eyed
with anticipation, wewondered just what we
were in for! Would we
have to make a speech?
Sing the DKG song solo
and a cappella? Do awk-
ward ice-breakers?
None of this
happened, of course.
Instead, we were met by
a welcoming committeeof women who had
worked tirelessly to
make a special weekend
of learning, sharing, and
bonding. We met amaz-
ing women who were
already leaders in their
chapters and schools.
We listened to experts
and worked in teams.
We learned about our-
selves and others. We
renewed our commit-
ment to working for the
greater good in DKG
and beyond.
It was all that
and much more. We
learned the importance
of leading from your
own personal strengths
rather than trying to
copy others who have
very different strengths.
We understood that toinspire others, one must
instill a sense of trust,
compassion, stability,
and hope in those who
follow.
Our internation-
al president, Dr. Beverly
Helms, and our state
president, Joanne Davis,
led us on this journey.
Most of all, we now have
thirty more very good
friends to call our own
from El Paso to Beau-
mont, to Amarillo, to
Corpus Christi.The Leadership
Seminar is a remarkable
event to learn new skills
and make life-long
friends from across the
state. Think about apply-
ing. The next one is in
February of 2015.
A Report from the 2013 Leadership Seminar
During a tour of the Texas State DKG headquarters in
Dallas, Jerrie Dooley pauses in the beauful foyer with
Internaonal President Dr. Beverly Helms and State
President Joanne Davis.
Communicating
Collaborating
Connecting
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P A G E 5
Unifying Project for 2013 State Convention
By Jerrie Dooley
Helpful may webe are words we sing in
the Delta Kappa Song.
Lets put those words into
action by participating in
the unifying project cho-
sen for the 2013 DKG
Texas State Convention in
June. Our state organiza-
tion is partnering with
Hands on Central Texas
to gather much-needed
school supplies for early
childhood and middle
school students in the
Austin area.
A call has gone
out for individuals and
chapters to donate these
specific items: bilingual
board books, washable
markers, safety scissors,
construction paper,
school glue, kid-friendly
or classical music CDs,
calculators, #2 pencils,
map pencils, pens, white
board markers and timer/
stop watches.
Look for a spe-
cial tree at the February
meeting where you will
find the names of the
items hanging from rib-
bons. Choose a few items
to bring to the meetings
in March and April.
Beta Zetas who
attend the state conven-
tion in Austin will deliver
the items from our chap-
ter. (See the convention
article in this newsletter.)
Hands on Central Texas
will distribute the items to
children in need of a little
help for Back to School.
In the past, Beta
Zeta has generously par-
ticipated in each unifying
project including the Unit-
ed Through Reading Mili-
tary Project, TreasureBoxes for hospitalized
children, and a book
drive. Lets show the
DKG spirit in Beta Zeta
with our gifts for this pro-
ject!
Deeds for others
Is the leaven
That inspires our band.
helped forge the Texas
that you live in today.
The story of Texas
wouldn't be complete
without the determined
women who stepped
out and stepped up
to fight for rights,
improve public ser-
vices, and help cre-
ate the state that we
know today.
"Women Shaping
By Helen Usener
Take a step back
into the Texas that your
mothers and grandmoth-
ers knew, and discover
how their contributions
Texas in the 20th Centu-
ry" is the special exhibit
featured now through May
19th at the Bob Bullock
Texas State History Muse-
um in Austin. Among the
women featured are two
of our DKG founders, and
DKG is one of
the featured organizations.
Women are still shaping
Texas todaycheck it
out!
Women Shaping Texas
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P A G E 6V O L U M E 2 1 , I S S U E 5
By Jerrie Dooley
The countdown has begunjust four more months
and a couple of days to blast-off for the 2013 DKG Texas
State Convention. Its just a hop, skip, and a jump down to
the beautiful Renaissance Hotel in Austin on June 20-22. The
list of Beta Zeta participants is growing, with plans to top,
maybe double, our 2012 participation! Will you be one of
the lucky ones at this always-fun event?
Hotel rooms have been reserved for us to share
and cut costs, but if you only have a day to spare, plan to go
to one day of the event. We have carpools forming if you
hate driving in Austin. No excusesjust plan to go!Whats happening there? Well, our state president
and Beta Zeta sister Joanne Davis will preside before passing
the gavel to our new state president. Karen Loeffler will
shine in the Belles and a Broadway Beau presentation of
chapter presidents. The Broadway Beau is dreamboat per-
former David Gaschen, best known for performances in
Phantom of the Opera in New York and across Europe! He
is sure to wow us with his concert performance.
There is the always sparkling Birthday Luncheon,
the elegant Founders and Presidents Banquet, invigorating
programs and speakers, meeting new friends and connecting
with old friends from across the state, and the best partbonding with our fabulous Beta Zeta sisters.
Its a fact every one of our Beta Zetas who at-
tends a state convention goes back again and most times
again and again and again. Yes, it is that good!
Registration forms will soon be available on the
Texas State Website. Keep watching for more details, and
email Karen today at [email protected] to let her know
you are going.
Gleaned from The
Delta Kappa Gam-
ma Society Interna-
tional websiteby
Helen Usener
Have you ev-
er wondered how
buildings or locations
become part of the
National Register of
Historic Places? It isa process that in-
volves research and
time. First is an im-
portant question is the property old enough
and does it still look close to the original? If the
property is 50 years old and maintains the integ-
rity of its era, the property is nominated, re-
viewed, goes through an evaluation and, after
meeting rigorous standards, is granted the distinc-tion.
Society Headquarters in Austin, Texas
opened in the downtown area in 1956. The interi-
or has been decorated since the original pink and
blue color scheme but remains much the same in
furnishings. In 2012 the building was recognized as
a property of the National Register of Historic
Places.
Dr. Beverly Helms, international president,and Corlea Plowman, executive director, will
work with Phyllis Hickey, operation services ad-
ministrator, Nita Scott, membership services ad-
ministrator, and Dr. Linda Eller, information ser-
vices administrator, to establish the ideal location
for the distinguished plaque. Congratulations,
DKG!
Historic HeadquartersJoin Us for aCapital Convention
David Gaschen has played the Phantom 1,500 mes.
Operaon Services Administrator
Phyllis Hickey and InternaonalPresident Dr. Beverly Helms proud-
ly show the plaque.
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P A G E 7
Historical Marker
Honors Annie Webb Blanton
Gleaned from The Del-
ta Kappa Gamma Socie-
ty International website
by Helen Usener
The Texas His-
torical Commission
has recognized educa-
tor and leader Annie
Webb Blanton for her
significant role in Tex-
as history with a his-
torical marker. The
marker will be dedi-
cated at 1:30 p.m.
March 1, 2013 outside
the Denton school
district's Blanton Ele-
mentary, 9501 Stacee
Lane in Argyle, TX.
County Judge
Mary Horn and Den-
ton ISD Superinten-
dent Jamie Wilson will
speak.
Born in Hou-
ston in 1870, Blantonbegan teaching at age
17 in a one-room
school in Fayette
County. She was hired
to teach English at
North Texas Normal
College, now the Uni-
versity of North Tex-
as, in 1901 and held
the rank of associate
professor at the Den-
ton school until 1918.
She was elected the
first woman president
of the Texas State
Teachers Association
in 1916. In 1918, Tex-
as elected her super-
intendent of public
instruction. She was
the first woman elect-
ed to a Texas public
office.
Blanton died in
1945.
Dr. Annie Webb
Blanton founded
Delta Kappa Gam-
ma in 1929.
Scholarships for Aspiring Educators
By Barbara Heinen
The Aspiring Edu-
cator Award ($500
$1,000) is designed to aid
women who are not mem-bers of the Delta Kappa
Gamma Society Interna-
onal who aspire to enter
the eld of educaon by
taking college hours to-
ward cercaon or a de-
gree in educaon. Appli-
cants must be recom-
mended by a Society mem-
ber. Last summer, Beta
Zeta recommended two
Texas Tech at Fredericks-burg students who won
this scholarship, April
Fischer-Trujillo and Valen-
na Salinas. The deadline
to apply is March 1st. See
Leola Mills for an applica-
on.
Beta Zeta also
gives one $500 Grant-in-
Aid scholarship per year to
an educaon student do-
ing her student teaching in
the coming year. Students
in Gillespie, Kendall, and
Mason counes are eligi-
ble to apply. See Leola
Mills for informaon.
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P A G E 8V O L U M E 2 1 , I S S U E 5
By Barbara Heinen
Do you need money for education? The
Texas Organization of The Delta Kappa Gamma
Society International has almost $2 million in
scholarships available to its members. There are
scholarships for graduate studies, continuing
adult education, and educational travel. The
deadline to apply is March 1. For scholarship
guidelines, go to the Alpha State website http://
alphastatetexas.org/ and look under the Scholar-
ships tab.At the chapter level, you are eligible to
receive a $100 scholarship from Beta Zeta for
conferences, workshops, and continuing educa-
tion not paid for by your school. Contact Leola
Mills for information.
BETA ZETA CHAPTER OFFICERS
President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Karen Loeer
First Vice President (programs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Helen Usener
Second Vice President (yearbook) . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrea Hudson
Treasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Janet Hext
Recording Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Beth Luckenbach
Corresponding Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Amy ONeil
Parliamentarian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tammy Vitek
By Jerrie Dooley
Dont forget to forward this
newsletter to a prospective member, and invite her to
attend the February meeting! Recruiting is in full
swing. Any current or retired professional educator is
eligible, so look down the hall at school, among your
fellow retired teachers, or at other educators in our
community, and invite one or more of them. Let them
experience firsthand the close bonds we share, the in-
formative programs, and the potential for learning
new ideas and serving others. Its time to share this giftby offering the benefits of membership to more out-
standing educators.
If you already have someone in mind
and she wants to join us, email Jerrie Dooley at
[email protected] for directions on the recom-
mendation form. Or fill out the form by yourself: go to
http://alphastatetexas.org/pdfs/form11.pdf. The form is
interactive and can be filled out and printed from this
site. Return it to Dooley at a meeting or mail to 611
Persimmon Court, Fredericksburg, TX 78624. We willvote in April on potential new members, so now is the
time to invite them!
2013 Southwest Regional ConventionBranson, Missouri
July 28-20, 2013
Time to Invite
New Members!
The JW Marriott is
the site of the Inter-national Convention
in Indianapolis, IN
July 28-August 1,
2014
Sharing Our Vision
Strengthening
Our Society
84th Texas State ConventionAustin, Texas
June 20-22, 2013
Scholarships Available
for Our Members