Milestone Birthdays

Celebrating with our members

 

 

I am honored to receive requests to share in the birthday celebrations of Delta Kappa Gamma members.  Several of you have notified me  of members who are celebrating their 90+ birthdays and, at least four who have reached their 100th. What a joy it is for me to share a greeting from  Society Headquarters.

 

 

Unfortunately our data base does not allow us to locate members by birthdates. We can, however,  identify members by their date of initiation into Delta Kappa Gamma.  If you have a member in your chapter who is celebrating a milestone birthday, let me know. I will be honored to send a personal greeting and note of appreciation. But, I can only do it if you let me know.

 

 

Pictured above, (standing, l to r), Iota chapter president, Maria Carmen King, and Joanna Jones, Iota chapter member and Spearfish Co-chair. To the left of Miss Thelma Davis, who celebrated her 100th birthday on January 11, 2013, is Darlene Telkamp, past Alpha Pi (South Dakota) state organization president and current Iota chapter parliamentarian.

 

Continue to read my blogs as well as DKG NEWS, Presidents' Page, and President to President. All are posted on the Society website at www.dkg.org. Let's keep communicating, connecting  and celebrating with each other.









 

 



PA - receives CTAUN Award.

CTAUN Recognizes Pennsylvania

 

Pictured above, from left to right, are Karen Ball, Pennsylvania state organization projects chair, and Louann Schraeder, Pennsylvania's state organization president, receiving a certificate at the CTAUN conference in New York on January 19, 2013.

The certificate was a result of the state organization project, Hey Sister, Can You Spare A Pair, which focused on education as a human right and the need to impact education globally. In many African countries young women are denied the right to attend school during their cycle each month.  The PA project provided proper undergarments to facilitate the use of pads for the young women. Alpha Alpha state organization collected over 3,800 pair of cotton panties and impacted education worldwide.



At right is the trifold used by the PA state organization to communicate the manner in which it is impacting education world wide.

Welcome Back - Reinstate

Reinstatements - A Win - Win

Approximately 70% of members who dropped their membership during 2011 indicated that, if asked, they would reinstate. The efforts from Nita Scott, membership services administrator, and others, support that finding.

Several former members who completed the dropped survey were contacted by their chapter presidents. Within the day, they were no longer former members.

A state organization president called a former member when given the contact information by Nita. Following a ten minute conversation the state organization membership grew and a member was welcomed back.

Another former member who  had simply not completed the transfer process agreed  for her information to be shared with chapter presidents in her new area. Even though she had been a member she did not feel comfortable attending a new chapter without an invitation. She was invited by a chapter president and is now attending her chapter meetings.

Nita also contacted a former member who told her she did not intend to drop her membership, but neglected to get her dues to the treasurer. Nita made contact with the appropriate treasurer and the former member was reinstated. Unfortunately, the member told Nita that she was the only person who had contacted her regarding her dropped membership.

While Nita Scott is a wonderful Membership Services Administrator, she needs your help. Look at the list of members who have been dropped from membership in your chapter. Even if you are not president, or, an officer in your chapter, contact the former members to see if they will come back. When they do, help them to become actively involved in your chapter activities, projects and programs.