News from Ohio State Organization
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Believe
:: Belong :: Build
Dearest Members,
Chapter Climate Change?
What is your chapter’s “openness and friendliness” factor? Do you feel welcomed when attending meetings? Do other members/officers take the opportunity to listen and/or include you in the conservation? Is the chapter aware of your interests and/or talents? Does the chapter get you involved in meaningful programs and activities? Or, do you feel unwanted and your ideas undervalued? Feeling
needed
and
valued
is a basic human necessity and is most certainly essential in the nurturing and growing of our chapters’ memberships. To understand the reasons members, drop their DKG memberships, chapters would perhaps benefit from evaluating their “openness and friendliness” factor? Perhaps the solution is as simple as being
N.I.C.E
.!
Diana
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Diana Kirkpatrick, President
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November - The Month of Gratitude
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The Directors of ADSOEF are
truly grateful
for all of our OSO sisters and their support this past year. Can we count on your support to help us meet our fundraising goal this year of $25,000.00? "
Building from the Heart”
is this year's theme. Please consider your donation to "
pay it forward with gratitude from your heart
". Your chapter president has a brochure or you can view it
here
. ADSOEF wants to continue to support current and future educators and we know your chapter could have a lot of fun supporting this mission! Giving Tuesday is fast approaching and another opportunity to honor a family member or friend who is a treasured educator!
Don't forget to encourage eligible DKG Sisters and others to complete scholarship, fellowship, project, and grant
applications
which are due January 1, 2020! (Link to Educational Opportunities on ADSOEF website)
Don't forget to encourage…
…college students going into their student teaching year at any of Ohio's state supported university teacher education programs to complete the
Strickland Grant application
,
…and Sisters who have a special Individual/Classroom/Community project in mind to apply for the
Educational Projects
award!
All applications are due
January 1, 2020
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Happy Thanksgiving!
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This month we will share with you three short facts about Foster Care. This will focus on our second objective which is the word
K
nowledge.
This
K
nowledge will provide information to our OSO Delta Kappa Gamma members so that you are able to gain and acquire facts about the Foster Care Process.
Did You Know That….
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BEAT MICHIGAN!
THE BUCKEYE/CHERRY CHALLENGE
The Buckeye-Cherry Membership Challenge has begun! Ohio State Organization and Michigan State Organization are vying for bragging rights to see which organization can increase membership by the greatest percentage. View the
introductory YouTube video and read the directions below.
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Everyone likes a break in taxes, which the Ohio Statehouse is considering in legislation introduced this term. While they are potentially offering some tax breaks for educators and women, new bills review school security requirements, youth suicide prevention, and, yet again, study the amount of year-end testing.
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COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING
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Have you seen or read the DKG Blog? It has a wealth of information for everyone and most committees. Examples of blog posts follows:
- "The clock is ticking for International Scholarship applicants." LINK TO BLOG
- "Chapter Membership Chair Guidance" LINK TO BLOG
- "Marketing Chapter and State Excellence Quickly and Easily" LINK TO BLOG
When you are reading these blogs, make sure you sign up so that you receive notifications when new blogs are posted.
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Why The Gold Key?
What is the Gold Key? Louisa Strock, Beta Zeta, started the Gold Key, in 1982 with the first awards given out in 1983. She designed the Gold Key as an incentive program intended to make chapters aware of the activities required by the Society and at the same time to recognize outstanding chapters and their leaders. The program helps each chapter to...
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The Expansion Committee would like to thank all of those in attendance at the Executive Board meeting on Saturday, October 12th, for completing the Expansion survey. We received great feedback and many excellent ideas!
We are working hard to put together a resource booklet that we hope will be of value to your chapter. You can still offer ideas and feedback on how you would like to receive this booklet. Just email
expansion@dkgohio.org
to do this. Most of the surveys showed that chapters would like to receive this booklet via the internet. We will continue to keep you informed with articles in The Voice.
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The sisters of the Alpha Omega Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma packing boxes of gifts for Operation Christmas Child (Samaritan’s Purse) at their October meeting. Each member brought gifts for the boxes according to their birthday months.
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Kappa Member Martha Cramer, a long-time volunteer at the Forest Jackson Public Library, celebrated her 90
th
birthday at the library in July. Friends donated $1300 to the library in Martha’s honor. Happy Birthday, Martha!
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Delta Chi enjoyed the Biennial Seminar in Cincinnati
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Alpha Sigma Chapter of DKG at their October Birthday Celebration. On October 7, 1939 Alpha Sigma Chapter was founded in Findlay, Ohio. Eighty years later we are still going strong!
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Addison Taylert, the recipient of the BeWise scholarship gave Beta Delta a recap of the fun times she had at Kenyon over the summer.
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Beta Kappa members enjoyed a delicious meal provided by the Wilson Health Foundation at their October 7 meeting.
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In just five months, winter will be behind us, spring will be ahead of us, and we will be gathering for the State Convention at the Embassy Suites in Dublin. The Convention will begin on Friday, March 20, with a “Taste of Ohio, Taste of DKG,” and continue through Sunday, March 22. Look for more information about happenings at convention in future issues of The Voice. It is not too early to book your room at the Embassy Suites.
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FEBRUARY 1, 2020 - Necrology Report due
See website for form
MARCH 20 - 22, 2020 - OSO State Convention at the Embassy Suites in Dublin, OH
NOTE: Executive Board will be held on the 21st
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Remembering Our Lost Sisters
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Madeline Bradford, Beta Chi
Mary Krauss, Beta Chi
Elizabeth M. Nassif, Tau
Katherine Sabo, Delta Chi
Cynthia L. Sweeney, Alpha Omega
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