Credit Sara Ranzau

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Volume 53, Issue 3

Eta Xi Roses Area VI, Chapter #182

Kerrville, TX

March/April 2018

Chapter Rules

May 5, 2018 June 14-16, 2018 April 21, 2018

Visit the Eta Xi

Little

Free

Library!

T H E D E L T A K A P P A G A M M A

S O C I E T Y I N T E R N A T I O N A L

Join us for our end

of the year

celebration and

social!

Standing Committees

All committees shall be

appointed by the chapter

presidents and the President

is an ex officio member on

all committees. More on

committee responsibilities

is located on dkgtexas.org

website.

See our list of standing

committees here.

You can read all the chapter

rules here.

International

Convention –

Austin, TX

Join DKG sisters

from all over the

world.

Credit Eunice McCoy Mission Statement

The Delta Kappa Gamma Society

International promotes professional and

personal growth of women educators

and excellence in education.

Editor: Sara Ranzau

El Sombrero – 5PM

Our Little Free Library is up and open to the public! Linda and

John Stegall did a wonderful job of building our little literary space. Join

us on April 21st at 10AM as we officially open our LFL and give it our

Eta Xi blessing!

Please be sure to drop by when you can; add books, take books,

bring friends to gather books! Remember, the purpose of a Little Free

Library is so our community has access to books without cost. Help keep

Kerrville from becoming a book desert!

State Convention –

Waco, TX

Website

Join other DKG

sisters in Waco and

help “Build Bridges”

for DKG.

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Katherine Graham will take over as Webmistress and Facebook guru!

Please see Katherine to contribute pictures or content! (409-718-6099 or

mailto:etaxitexas@gmail.com) for more information. dkgetaxitexas.weebly.com

Delta Kappa Gamma Eta Xi Instagram

State and International Social Media

DKG – Texas State Organization

The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International

Delta Kappa Gamma @DKG_SI

DKG Pinterest Page

2018 State and International Conventions

June 14-16, 2018

Waco, Texas

Social Networking

Contribute to Our Newsletter! We want to hear more from you! Our goal is to make our

newsletter more exciting, educational, and full of the color

you add to the world around you! To contribute pictures,

interesting articles you’ve read or written, or share your

artistic abilities, email Sara Ranzau at

etaxinewsletter@gmail.com

Next Deadline: July 15, 2018

Happy Birthday!!

Click HERE to update your member

information!

March May

2 Cathy Barkley 7 Sara Ranzau

6 Shelby Balser 7 Lezlie Sirianni

28 Sharon Claiborn 9 Heather Butler

April 22 Leigh Decker

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From Sara

As we close another school year and end my time

serving you as co-president, I find myself looking

back at all of the changes that have occurred in all

our lives. I became a parent to two little boys,

many of you have become grandparents (for the

first time – or not), new members have joined,

others have left…oh what a year it has been. I

want to thank you all for letting me be a leader

among you. I look forward to continue to watch

Eta Xi grow in the next biennium.

Chapter Officers Your Chapter Officers for the 2016-2018 Biennium

To email any of your officers, click on their underlined names

Co-Presidents – Eunice McCoy and Sara Ranzau

1st Vice President – Linda Stegall

2nd Vice President – Dana Dunagan

Recording & Corresponding Secretary – Cathy

Barkley

Parliamentarian – Mary Seay

Treasurer – Jeannie Zirkel

Webmaster – Katherine Graham Membership Chair – Cathy Martin

From Eunice

It was car wash day, I got in my freshly cleaned

car, and I headed to do my errands around town.

When I arrived at home, I noticed my car was

covered in a fine yellow dust. Then I remembered

the lovely oak pollen that has been in our air

during this beautiful hill country spring time. I

told myself not to, “Sweat the small stuff and to

remember it’s all small stuff”. I resisted the urge

to go back and wash the car again. Why am I

telling you about my musings on this spring day?

It is because as we plan for our next year of

service and commitment to DKG we all may feel

overwhelmed by “stuff”. As Richard Carlson told

us in his book, the solution is to catch ourselves

when we insist that things should be other than

they are.(That dusty car problem) If we can stop

ourselves from building a mental “snowball”

about all we have to do, then we can avoid that

stressed, overwhelmed feeling, and we can then

focus on the magic and beauty of being key

women educators. For this day, I have made peace

with this dusty imperfection.

Chapter Rules

A Message from the Presidents

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Welcome New Officers!

Chapter Reports

To access the minutes and treasurer’s reports,

click the blue links. Please read each before our

next meeting so any necessary changes can be

made at the time.

Minutes

Treasurer’s Report

Hospitality Plan & Calendar

Visit International, TSO, and ASTEF!

Looking for information about what is happening in DKG? Check these out!

www.dkg.org

www.dkgtexas.org

www.astef.org

Lone Star News

Log into your DKG account using your member number and the password:

dkgsociety2014

Congratulations to our new officers! These sisters will be

filling their new roles for the 2018 - 2020 biennium. Please

be sure to show them your gratitude for their service!

Co-Presidents: Chris Simone and Cristi Ahern

Co-1st VPs: Sherry Rhoten and Lezlie Sirianni

Co-2nd VPs: Dana Dunagan and Bridget Henderson

Recording Secretary: Annette Johnston

Corresponding Secretary: Cathy Martin

Want to be more involved? We’d love it too!

Do you want to be more involved in the chapter but aren’t quite ready to

take on a leadership role? Have you considered taking on a smaller role?

Here are a few we’ve been thinking of:

Report news of committee work at meetings.

Submit item for newsletter.

Be the photographer for each meeting.

Share photos on local website.

Preserve chapter history by making scrapbook or poster boards.

Be a web watcher to report new additions to our websites at

meeting.

Be a greeter at the meeting.

Monthly accomplishment award presented to a member.

Be the nametag supervisor. (create, collect, and put away)

Report on current educational legislation.

Pick up members who don’t drive.

Be in charge of attendance sheets and present attendance awards.

Help with clean up after the meeting.

Share quick and easy recipe for those days you are exhausted.

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then in 2005, she moved to the high school

level from which she retired in 2016.

Annette’s love of reading began when her

mother would take her to the community

book mobile as a child, she has always felt

that if you can read, you can do anything.

Maddie Lewis, Hunt Maddie is the first grade

teacher at Hunt school. She

is a native of Kerrville,

Texas and graduated from

Tivy High School. Maddie attended Texas

State University – San Marcos and

received a degree in C&I and majored in

elementary education.

She then moved back to the Hill Country

and got engaged to the love of her life,

Wesley Lewis, who graduated from Texas

Tech. The couple has been married for one

year and have 2 adorable chocolate labs

named Abby and Bear. Maddie has wanted

to become a teacher since she was a little

girl and loves being able to go to her

dream job every day!

Amanda Ruland,

Peterson MS Amanda Ruland is currently

in her 2nd year of teaching

7th Grade Reading at Hal

Peterson Middle School. Amanda grew up

in Kerrville, Texas attending Kerrville ISD

schools. She then attended Texas A&M

University in College Station, Texas. She

is getting married to Grant Baehre in June,

2018. She spends her free time exercising,

fishing, reading, and being outdoors.

April McComack -

Haas, Tivy HS April, a 5th generation

educator, is an AP English

III teacher and director of PALs (Peer

Assistance and Leadership) at Tivy High

School where she has been teaching since

2007. Her 15 years of teaching experience

include teaching PreK-12th grade. She is

Montessori certified, has a B.A. in English,

and an M.Ed. in teaching from Schreiner

University. April is married to Brady

Haas. She has two children: Brady 7, Kate

18.

Ashlee Nouri,

Tivy HS

Ashlee is a graduate of

Comfort High School, UT

Austin, and Texas State in San Marcos,

where she received a Master’s degree in

Literature.

She has been teaching for 17 years and

has taught every secondary grade level

except juniors. Her goal is to end her

career (in the distant future) in a

curriculum leadership position.

In her personal time, Ashlee loves to

read, cook, garden, run, kayak, and travel.

Her family and her students are the most

important thing in her life!

Sherry Rhoten,

Ingram ISD Sherry is a retired Special

Education teacher who

moved to Texas from Calif. with her

husband Dan in October of 2016. She

spent most of her career teaching in a

self-contained classroom for Emotionally

Disturbed elementary students and the

last twelve years as Director of an Early

Intervention Program for 3-6 year-old

children with Autism.

Sherry is now a Board Certified Behavior

Analyst, works part time for Ingram as

their Behavior Specialist, and does

private behavior therapy for a company

based in San Antonio.

Sherry is involved in her choir at church

and attends a couple of book clubs. She

and her husband are enjoying making

renovations to their new home in

Kerrville.

Annette Johnston,

Retired Annette Johnston, a New

Mexico native, is wife to Tom and mother

of two daughters and six grandchildren.

After receiving a Bachelor’s degree from

U.T. P. B. in 1994, she taught 4th grade

for three years. In 1996, she earned a

Master’s degree in Education with an

emphasis in Library Science from Texas

Tech University. For nine years, Annette

worked as an elementary school librarian;

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sisters around the state and globe?

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your dollar for the brag bag!

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your pin, or it’ll cost

you your age in change!

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Welcome New Eta Xi Roses!

Programs April 21, 2018

First Presbyterian Church, Ryan Hall, Kerrville

10:00AM – 12:00 PM Join us as we induct several new members, officially open our Little

Free Library, and wrap up the school year.

Don’t Forget

Scholarship Award May 5, 2018

End-of-year Social

5PM at El Sombrero

Do you know a woman completing the

last couple of years of her degree? If so, please have her submit our scholarship

application. Find it here. !

Upcoming Events

Eta Xi Chapter c/o Sara Ranzau

179 Twin Canyon Dr.

Boerne, TX 78006

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