Welcome to a new school year! I saw a quote on Facebook: "Summer

should get a speeding ticket." It certainly seems that way to me; it is hard

to believe that it already is time to start a new year - but here we are! I

love the excitement of starting over, new classes, new children - I can't

think of any profession better than being in education, where we get the

opportunity to start fresh each year, and the privilege of touching stu-

dents' lives and helping them prepare for future success.

I have missed seeing you so much! I am excited about the plans we have

for this year. ENCOURAGING EXEMPLARY EDUCATORS. That is

what Delta Kappa Gamma Society International does. I want our meet-

ings to be a source of encouragement and respite for all of us. We have

so much going on in our professional and personal lives. Let's take time

each month just for ourselves, to relax, fellowship with other outstanding

women educators, and renew our commitment to our calling.

My mother started her career as a teacher. Based on the fun things she

did with us as kids, I am sure she did an excellent job. However, after

two years of teaching biology and chemistry she quit. When she looked

around at her colleagues, she saw a "bunch of bitter, resentful old

maids" (her words, not mine) and did not want to stay in a profession

which might cause her to become a person like that. I don't want to be a

negative person, either. Thank you so much for the optimism and joy you

portray. Your commitment to excellence in education is inspiring.

"Orange you proud" to be a part of Delta Kappa Gamma? Whom do you

know that could use the inspiration we get from being with each other?

Maybe you aren't in the classroom - but do you know a neighbor, or

someone at church? Bring her to our meeting on August 24, and wear or-

ange!

Tricia

AUGUST PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

DELTA KAPPA

GAMMA

INTERNATIONAL

XI STATE

VOLUMN XIII

NUMBER 1

Inside this issue:

Page 1

President’s Message, Officers

Page 2

August Meeting,

Page 3

Concerns, Yearbook,

Birthdays, Awards, New member spotlight

Page 4

Legislation, Web site,

Mystery members, Dues

Page 5

Xi State Covention

Page 6 & 7

Zeta Calendar

2014-2016 Officers

President

Dr. Tricia Jones

1st President

Myra Sowder

2nd President

Alice Carson

Recording Secretary

Shelley Walker

Corresponding Sec.

Robin Jarman

Treasurer

Kelly Reed

Parliamentarian

Janice Walker

ZETA NEWS

Directions to the meeting Page 2

If you make a dinner reservations

and can not attend, you will need to

pay for the meal. Due to a tight

budget, we need to pay for the meal

within a week of missing the meet-

ing.

Thanks

REMINDER

AUGUST MEETING

Articles, information etc.

needed for future newslet-

ters. Please submit to

Connie Silvey at

cfsilvey@bellsouth.net by the

10th of each month.

“ORANGE” you proud to be a part of

Zeta and Delta Kappa Gamma?

Come join us for our first Zeta meeting

on Monday, August 24th

at 5:00 p.m.

@ Saint Joseph School, 1810 Howard

Drive, (off Cedar Lane, near Fountain

City). Rosemary Calvert, last year’s first semester recipient of the Spotlight on an Educator, will be sharing with us about Saint Joseph Schools’ environmental program and will be giving us a tour of

their school and garden.

After this program, we will celebrate Zeta and continue our meeting (5:30 – 6:30) and fellowship together and discuss our

plans for the upcoming ZETA year.

We ask that you wear “ORANGE” as part of our celebration. We will then go to Puelo’s Grill @ 110 Cedar Lane (near Merchant’s Drive) for dinner and con-tinue our celebration. Hope you will

make plans to be there.

August 24th, 2015 DKG Meeting at St. Joseph School

The first DKG meeting for the 2015 - 2016 School year will be at St. Joseph School, 1810 Howard Drive, Knoxville TN 37819 at 5:00 p.m. Saint Joseph School, in its present location, was opened in 1963. In 2011, it was made a regional school. Students who attend Saint Joseph School come from nine different parishes in the area. Students from other de-nominations are welcome. This parochial school offers education from Pre-K through 8th grade, with a total enroll-ment of approximately 200 students and 25 staff members. Our meeting will begin at 5:00 p.m. with a tour of the St. Joseph School’s Outdoor Classroom to which many of the DKG sisters so kindly and generously contributed sup-plies or funds. This will include the 5 gardens and green-house. We will also have a tour of the school, and conduct our business meeting in Rosemary Calvert’s classroom. After our meeting, we will reconvene for dinner at Puleo’s Grille on Merchants Drive. Meet in the parking lot of the school that is located on Montrose Road. In case of inclement weather, please come to the main entrance of the school located on How-ard Drive (there is a covered walkway leading to the front door). Directions: Coming from I-75, get off at the Mer-chants Drive exit. You will then turn on Merchants, and drive in the direction of Puleo’s Grille and Fountain City. You will pass Puleo’s, and Ingles shopping center, and cross a railroad track. Merchant’s Drive turns into Cedar Lane. Continue on Cedar Lane until you come to St. Jo-seph School on your left. Turn left on Montrose Road and park in the parking lot.

Keep in our thoughts and prayers:

Judy Fleenor (mother)

Rosemary Calvert (mother)

Connie Silvey (mother)

Bonnie Burnette

Micky Perry

Sara Key (husband)

Jean Farley TUMC (husband)

Sympathy

Tricia Jones in the passing of her mother

this summer. Linnie McMillian’s family in

her passing.

Zeta Phone List

Send changes in telephone, cell, work numbers to

Connie Silvey cfsilvey@bellsouth.net

Yearbook

Please send yearbook corrections to:

Alice Carson

alice.carson@knoxschools.org

1223 Hearthstone Lane

Knoxville, TN 37923

Awards

Remember if you have received an award this past

school year please notify:

Judy Fleenor

7009 Ashley Court 37921

Page 3

Concerns

August

Kitty Pruett 2

Diane Scarbrough 5

Robin Jarman 12

Sherry Walsh 19

NEW MEMBER SPOTLIGHT In an effort to help members become bet-ter acquainted, we are spotlighting new member, Whitney Schmidt, this month. A native Knoxvillian, Whitney re-ceived her B.S. and M.S. degrees from East Tennessee State University, and she is currently enrolled in the doc-toral program there. She is an aspiring administrator and recently earned her ad-ministrative license. Whitney teaches English and is the yearbook sponsor at Oak Ridge High School. She enjoys spending free time with her husband, Robert, and their toddler-aged son, Judah. Whitney is skilled in the use of technology and enjoys scrapbooking, reading, pho-tography, and learning.

Legislation

Lamar Alexander: alexander.senate.gov

Bob Corker: corker.senate.gov

John Duncan: Duncan.house.gov

Board of Education

Terri Coatney, Executive Assistant:

Terri.coatney@knoxschools.org

Chair - Mike McMillan

Mmillan.kcboard@gmail.com

Knox Co Commission

Commission@knoxcounty.org

Chair - Brad Anders :

brad.anders@knoxcounty.org

_____________________________

Check out Zeta’s Web site

http://dkgxizeta.weebly.com/

A new recipient for SPOT LIGHT on an Edu-

cator will be chosen at our August meeting. So

be thinking about what items you need in your

classroom.

* * * * * * *

DUES

Remember dues are $85.00 for active members

$40.00 for reserve members

Please bring dues to the August meeting

Spotlight on 3 Zeta

M Y S T E R Y Members ? ? ?

(4 Truths and 1 Lie) We will guess their iden-

tities at our August meeting.

MM1

1. Fell at school going up the stairs

2. Drag raced when young

3. Roller skated in competition

4. Did CPR on a fellow teacher.

5. Have a great grandchild.

MM2

1. I come from a family of educators

2. My birthday is on September 2

3. I have traveled to 4 foreign countries

4. My undergrad was in neuro-psychology

5. Knox County has been my favorite place

to work

MM3

1. I love to play with my grandchildren

2. I love to travel

3. I love to go out to eat

4. I used to love to water ski and was good at

one time

5. I would love to return to teaching—I miss

it so much

Page 4

Xi State Convention

June 2015

“Orange” you proud to be a part of Zeta and Delta Kappa Gamma? I know that I am. I have at-

tended the Xi State Convention for three of the last four years. While at the Xi State Convention

this summer, I participated in three of thirty-four workshops that were offered. I would like to

share with you two of the workshops, in hopes that you will go ahead and put next year’s conven-

tions on your calendar. Xi State is where I really began to understand what Delta Kappa Gamma

is all about. (Xi State Convention – Sewanee, Tn … June 2 – 4, 2016 and International Convention

– Nashville Gaylord Opryland Hotel July 5 – 9, 2016)

The first workshop was how to make Hope Boxes for Breast Cancer patients. We learned how to

actually make the “Hope Boxes” and how to fill them with items to be presented to breast cancer

patients. The presenter for this workshop was Janice Stooksbury, Alpha Rho. This project in-

spired us to sponsor our local Ronald McDonald House here in Knoxville in January.

The second workshop was Reading with Zombies. The presenter, Cynthia O’Daniel, Gamma Zeta

gave an inspiring presentation on how to engage students who just do not care about reading and

go through school as if they were “Zombies”. She dragged in books from her reading classroom in

her suitcase. She had so many wonderful book and ideas, that I didn’t want to leave when it was

time for the workshop to end. I wanted to stay and read every book that she brought in her suit-

case. Myra Sowder

WHAT I LEARNED AT CONVENTION - MARTHA

Session I Explore the Possibilities of Membership

This workshop was about connecting members through DKG. The membership committee is working on

developing professional communities and mentoring programs to share experiences and ideas with each

other. Mentoring connections will be between two people -a veteran and someone with less than five

years’ experience. Collaborative Communities are for members who have like interests to be able to

communicate. These groups will be formed when the DKG Member Portal is up and running.

Session II What’s in Your Archive?

Zeta has 24 boxes with archived material in the Library at Nashville. We received a list of what is con-

tained in each box. All chapters should have material archived which should include yearbooks, chapter

histories, meeting minutes, biographical data of chapter founders, biographical data of chapter members,

scrapbooks, necrologies reports, and Founders’ Day and Initiation Programs. Material was given out on

care of photographs.

C A L E N D A R

6/4 – 6/15 Xi State Convention – Sewanee, Tennessee

6/19/15 Zeta Executive Board and Committee Planning Meeting

@ Martha McCluen’s Home

7/28/15 Coordinating Council Meeting @ Martha McCluen’s Home

8/24/15 ORANGE you Proud to be a part of Zeta and Delta Kappa Gamma meeting @

Saint Joseph School 5 – 6:30 pm and

Dinner at Puelo’s Grille Cedar Lane @ 6:45 p.m.

9/28/15 Joint Meeting Founders Day Trinity Untied Methodist Church

(Alpha Mu)

10/22 & 10/23/2015 Boo at the Knoxville Zoo

(Signing children up for Imagination Library)

10/24/2015 Trinity United Methodist Church (Fall Festival & Craft Fair) @

Trinity United Methodist Church

10/26/15 Knoxville International Network at Central Baptist Church Bearden

Annex Building @ 5 pm

11/16/16 Joint Meeting at Trinity United Methodist Church (Alpha Tau)

Early Career Educator’s Grant Meeting

Nominations for New Officers will be presented

12/19/15 Salvation Army Bell Ringers (Zeta) Location & Time (TBA)

12/31/15 Deadline to apply for Liz Whorley Bradley Professional Growth Award and Vision

Foundation Project

1/25/16 Powell High School Service Project/Ronald McDonald House @ 5 pm

Location: Powell High School

2/1/16 Deadline to apply for Xi State Scholarship and International Scholarship

2/16 Legislative Symposium – Nashville, TN

2/22/16 Friends of Literacy & Imagination Library @ 5 p.m.

Olive Garden, Kingston Pike

3/1/16 Literacy Information sent into Xi State (GBBF Information)

3/15/16 Nomination for Xi State Order of the Rose due

3/28/16 Joint Meeting @ Trinity United Methodist Church (Zeta) @ 5 pm

Juvenile Court Judge Tim Irwin

(All chapters will bring new stuffed animals for Juvenile Court program)

4/15/16 The Maycie Award for Chapter Excellence is due

4/25/16 Joint Meeting Spring Initiation (Alpha Mu) @

Trinity United Methodist Church

5/16/16 End –of-year wrap-up

Black Horse Pub , Kingston Pike

5/21/16 Children’s Reading Festival World’s Fair Park

6/2 – 4/16 Xi State Convention – Sewanee, TN

7/5 – 9/16 International Convention – Nashville, TN @

Opryland Hotel