alpha beta kappa chapter spring 2010 initiation. my name is abbey williams and i am the current...
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Alpha Beta Kappa Chapter
Spring 2010 Initiation
• My name is Abbey Williams and I am the current president of Alpha Beta Kappa Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi.
• This virtual initiation is the product of collaboration among chapter officers from across the country.
Greetings Candidates!
• Our virtual candidates include learners from a variety of locations around the state of Georgia and beyond.
• We welcome you and hope that you find this presentation meaningful. Welcome to KDP!
ABK Chapter is 6 years old
ABK Chapter was installed at Valdosta State University
on March 9, 2004
ABK Chapter is Growing
The chapter started with 38 membersin Spring 2004
We added 85 new members in Fall 2004
33 new members were initiated in Spring 2005
An additional 54 joined us in Fall 2005
ABK Chapter is Growing
The chapter grew 34 membersin Spring 2006
We added 27 new members in Fall 2006
26 new members were initiated in Spring 2007
An additional 51 joined us in Fall 2007
ABK Chapter is Growing
The chapter grew 26 membersin Spring 2008
We added 28 new members in Fall 2008
38 new members were initiated in Spring 2009
An additional new group of members will join us in Fall 2009!
ABK Chapter is a Leader
Valdosta State University was the
first and only university to which Kappa Delta Pi issued a chapter charter
to a College of Arts and Sciences.
We are still growing and establishing ourselves here on VSU’s campuses. This virtual initiation
is an effort to serve those who attend virtual classes or who commute long distances.
ABK Chapter is Different
With our hectic schedules, it is difficult for us to meet monthly as a group in a single physical location because we are spread
around the state.
We do hold two initiations during each year and plan to start holding at least one general
meeting a year, most likely in the spring.
ABK Chapter is Involved
Your officers meet online as needed to take care of the chapter’s business.
Our greatest challenge is to find ways to serve our members better and
to keep us all connected.
Melissa Rainey, ABK President 2005
Hurricane Katrina Food Drive
Jocelyn Campbell & Kourtney White, ABK Membership Committee 2005
Project Teddy bearKatherine Backes (R), ABK Historian 2005
Hurricane Katrina Food Drive
KDP is Progressive
Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Societyin Education is vitally interested in
promoting excellence in education throughout the career lifecycle of its members
KDP is highly progressive and leads the community of honor societies by embracing
virtual universities and recognizing their scholarly accomplishments
KDP is Forever
Once you attain membership in KDP,you will be a member for life
If you lose contact after graduation, you may always reconnect as a member-at-large or by
joining a professional chapter
You may find KDP Headquartersonline at www.kdp.org
We hope you decide to remain an active member throughout your career
This Initiation is Different
Typically, a KDP initiation is done in a formal setting with family and friends attending.
Alpha Beta Kappa Chapter, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA
and the setting is solemn.
Members and
alumni of the
chapter attend
This Initiation is The Same
The ritual is a proud tradition repeated many times since 1927
Although the environment may be different, this version of
the ritual remains consistent with those being experienced
throughout KDP.
The Tradition is the Same
Please treat this virtual initiation as a serious undertaking.
This presentation attempts to provide as much of the solemnity
and tradition as possible in a virtual environment.
We have done our best to create the proper setting in our virtual environment.
As we begin…
The original ritual of Kappa Delta Pi, written for the initiation of new members
into the Society, was adopted by the Executive Council on March 3, 1927.
The initiation ceremony ritual combined idealism, symbolism, and tradition. The ceremony was
conducted in a “reverent and esthetic” manner, with symbols that suggested inspiration,
introspection, and consciousness.
Welcome
We, the officers and members of Alpha Beta Kappa Chapter, welcome you, our new prospective members,
to our chapter.
We would like to recognize each of you by name and to tell of your scholarship, but because of the
nature of this presentation, we will have to recognize you as a group for your outstanding
scholastic accomplishments at VSU.
Emily Hunter, 1st ABK President 2004
The Ceremony
Members of the Alpha Beta Kappa Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi,
International Honor Society in Education, we are now assembled to
reaffirm faith in the Ideals of our Society and to initiate into
membership candidates who seek the bond of our common purpose,
to promote excellence in and recognize outstanding contributions to education.
Master Chief Steve Taisler, USAF, ABK President 2006
Our History
Kappa Delta Pi was founded on March 8, 1911, at the University of Illinois.
The Society was incorporated
on June 8, 1911.
The Alpha Beta Kappa Chapter was installed by KDP former National KDP President, Dr.
Marcella Kysilka on March 9th, 2004
Dr. Mary Ellen DallmanABK Associate Counselor
Dr. Marcella Kysilka
What Does Membership Imply?
Membership implies fostering the high ideals of the education profession by
assuming trusteeship of a rich professional legacy.
Candidates, you will be asked to accept the responsibility of transmitting this legacy at
the end of the presentation.
It is our privilege and duty as educators to transmit this legacy.
Michelle Backes, 1st ABK Vice President
What Does Membership Imply?
Do you accept the responsibility of transmitting this legacy?
If so, you will answer, “I do” by completing the affirmation statement
at the conclusion of the initiation.
Current members may state, “And we affirm anew our responsibility in the
transmission of this legacy.”
Kourtney White,ABK Membership Chair 2006
Principles of the Society
Education is a vital societal force that encourages universal welfare and
individual progress.
Education is the cornerstone of democracy and the foundation for personal fulfillment.
Honor societies conduct rituals and ceremonies to impress upon their members the ideals and duties
to which they adhere.
Melissa RaineyABK President 2005
& Dr. Moch
Principles of the Society
Members of Kappa Delta Pi have cherished the Society’s Ideals and
accepted the concepts of duty established when the organization
was founded.
It is desirable that new members of Kappa Delta Pi seek awareness of the duties which education
imposes and of the Ideals of the Society accepts.
Jennifer Johnston,ABK Treasurer 2005,Convo Delegate 2005
Ideals of the Society
We present for your acceptance the Ideals which guide members of the Society.
In a formal ceremony where the members gather together at the same place,
candles are lit representing each ideal.
In our virtual ceremony, these candles are represented graphically
for each of the ideals.
Korry Allen, ABK President 2008
Fidelity to Humanity
The first Ideal is that of Fidelity to Humanity.
compassion in the contacts one has, as an educator, with humanity;
This Ideal implies faith in the potential of human beings and in the improvement
of the human condition through education;
Dr. Denise T. Reid,ABK Associate Counselor
Fidelity to Humanity
and dedication to the concept that through continuous education based upon equal opportunity, persons of all
ages, races, and creeds will find increased opportunity for experiencing
more meaningful lives.
All of this is implied in the
Ideal of Fidelity to Humanity.
Maranda Powell,ABK Alternate Convo
Delegate 2005
Fidelity to Humanity
Do you accept this Ideal of Fidelity to Humanity?
If so, you will answer, “I do” by completing the affirmation statement at
the conclusion of the initiation.
Current members may state “And we affirm anew our faith in the Ideal of Fidelity to
Humanity.”
Mandy Moore,ABK Historian & Convo
Delegate 2009
Ideal of Science
The second Ideal is that of Science.
This Ideal implies that, as an educator, one will be faithful to the cause of free inquiry and strive
to eliminate prejudice and superstition by withholding judgment until accurate and
adequate evidence is obtained.
Wendy Lane, 1st ABK Historian
Ideal of Science
One will not distort evidence to support a favorite theory; not be
blinded by the new or spectacular; nor condemn the old simply
because it is old.
All of this is implied in the Ideal of Science.
Dr. Louis Levy,Provost & Vice President of
Academic Affairs,ABK Member
Ideal of Science
Do you accept this Ideal of Science?
If so, you will answer, “I do” by completing the affirmation
statement at the conclusion of the initiation.
Current members may state, “And we affirm anew our faith in the Ideal of
Science.”
Dr. Patrick Schloss,VSU President,ABK Member
Ideal of Service
The third Ideal is that of Service.
This Ideal is the very essence of education which seeks
advancement, not merely for self, but for society as well.
The incentive of the great educators of the world has been their desire
to serve humanity.
Dr. Marsha Krotseng,Chief Planning Officer,
ABK Member of the Society
Ideal of Service
Service in education implies living so that others are strengthened and
inspired, and striving for the achievement of justice, peace, and a
better way of life for all.
All of this is implied in the Ideal of Service.
Dr. Sheri Gravett,Assistant Vice President
for Academic Affairs,ABK Member of the Society
Ideal of Service
Do you accept this Ideal of Service?
If so, you will answer, “I do” by completing the affirmation statement
at the conclusion of the initiation.
Current members may state, “And we affirm anew our faith in the Ideal of
Service.”
Dr. Sheri GravettAssistant Vice President
Academic AffairsMember of the Society
Ideal of Toil
The final Ideal is that of Toil.
Toil - the will to do the task that must be done whether the task
pleases one or not,
and faith in the social necessity and intrinsic reward
of the education profession.
Dr. Peggy L. MochABK Chapter Counselor
Ideal of Toil
It implies working with such faith and zeal that others are won to
the cause of education.
All of this is implied in the Ideal of Toil.
If one life has been given greater
freedom and nobler vision, toil has not been in vain.
Dr. Peggy L. MochABK Chapter Counselor
Ideal of Toil
Do you accept this Ideal of Toil?
If so, you will answer, “I do” by completing the affirmation statement
at the conclusion of the initiation.
Current members may state, “And we affirm anew our faith in the
Ideal of Toil.”
Dr. Peggy L. MochABK Chapter Counselor
Society Emblem
Our Society’s emblem incorporates:
the scroll,
and the characters K (Kappa), Δ (Delta),Π (Pi).
the stylus,
the beehive,
Society Emblem
Many of the treasures of antiquity, which form the foundation of modern education, rest upon
scrolls of papyrus.
The golden scroll, therefore, is the foundation of our emblem.
The shaft running through the scroll is the stylus, the first instrument known
to be used in making letters and figures.
Society Emblem
The beehive symbolizes toil.
represent our motto —Knowledge, Duty, Power —
words expressing the entire meaning of our
educational ideals.
The characters,
K (Kappa), Δ (Delta), Π (Pi)
Are you ready to proceed?
The Purpose and Ideals of Kappa Delta Pi are now known to you.
Are you ready to assume the obligation of membership in
Kappa Delta Pi? Emily Hunter,
1st ABK President
If so, you will answer, “I am” in the affirmation statement and continue to the conclusion of
the initiation.
Obligation of the Society
Please read aloud the Obligation of the Society:
If you so promise, do so by completing the affirmation statement at the conclusion of the
initiation.
I promise to abide by the Constitution and Bylaws of Kappa Delta Pi
and to cooperate to expand the influence of its purpose and Ideals.
Emily Hunter, 1st ABK President
You Are Now Members
I now declare you members of Kappa Delta Pi,
International Honor Society in Education,
pledged to be faithful to its Ideals, and worthy to enter into the bonds of fellowship
with its members.
Emily Hunter, 1st ABK President
Welcome We greet you as colleagues in the
quest for a full, knowledgeable, and useful life.
We are united in a profession whose purpose and challenge is to inspire young and old to grow by
using their heritage;
to develop a concern for the needs of others;
and to strengthen moral character and personality …
Dr. Peggy L. MochABK Chapter Counselor
Welcome
… so that collectively, as members of Kappa Delta Pi, we may be worthy examples of a rich, wholesome life.
To these purposes and challenges, in firm faith,
we devote our lives.
Dr. Peggy L. MochABK Chapter Counselor
So to Teach…-So to teach, that our words
inspire a will to learn;
To the fulfillment of these objectives, we pledge our efforts and our faith.
-So to serve, that each day may enhance the growth of exploring minds;
-So to live, that we may guide young and old to know the truth and love the right.
Dr. Peggy L. MochABK Chapter Counselor
Welcome into Membership
It is my privilege and honor to congratulate you and
welcome you into Kappa Delta Pi and the Alpha Beta Kappa chapter.
Dr. Peggy L. MochABK Chapter Counselor
Officers of ABK Chapter
Dr. Peggy Moch – Counselor, National VPDr. Denise Reid – Associate CounselorDr. Mary Ellen Dallman – Associate Counselor.
Abbey Williams – PresidentCindy Zirkle – Vice-PresidentJohnnie Marshall – Secretary/ TreasurerMandy Moore – Historian/ Foundation RepCheryl Stone – Membership Chair
What Happens Next…You should receive your membership
number from KDP Headquarters within two months.
You should receive your KDP and chapter membership certificates, KDP pin, a copy
of the KDP Creed, and the “Essential Guide for New members” from us within
the month.
ConclusionThis concludes the Spring 2010 ABK Chapter initiation. Please remember to complete your affirmation form.
Without the affirmation, we cannot certify your initiation to KDP.
Click on the link for affirmation provided on the online initiation main
page.