Welcome to Alpha Nu!
"Leading women educators impacting education worldwide."
We met on October 5, 2024 at the Cock and Bull at 9:30. Mary Lee Reiff from Americans for Native Americans – provided a wonderful and enlightening program about their many initiatives to improve the lives of the Native American Indians.
Our next meeting will be a Breakfast meeting at 9:30 on December 14, 2024 We will have our Bingo fundraiser for Grant-in-Aid. Playing cards will be sold for $5 or $10 dollars when you pay for the breakfast or at the meeting. To participate, bring a wrapped gift ($10-$15 in value) wrapped in seasonal, but not religious, paper. This is a fun and festive activity for a wonderful cause.
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A group of members met on October 25 to make up Comfort Bags to deliver to Kin. This organization helps women dealing with cancer. Our members contributed items for the bags.
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At the May 4, meeting, we welcomed three new members to our chapter. Co-President Karen Fisher welcomes Nyla Houser, Bettilyn Boggia, and Lorie Becker along with congratulations from Co-President Kathy Simmons.
Congratulations to Elsa Kate Hill and MacKenzie Devine, students at Bucks County Community College who received our Alpha Nu and Mae Light Grant in Aid Awards on May 4, 2024
Our March meeting was held on March 2, 2024. Members enjoyed a fashion show by our members modeling Chico's fashions.
Co-Presidents Kathy Simmons and Karen Fisher honored long time member of Alpha Nu, Betty Lee, for her 49 years of membership in our chapter. Read all about it in the Bucks County Herald.
https://buckscountyherald.com/stories/betty-lee-grew-up-morrisville-and-stayed-to-inspire-others,40519? 
Congratulations to Alice Kirby - 2023 Volunteer Award for Bucks-Mont PASR. She has been nominated for the Album of Distinction to be presented at the State Convention in Pittsburgh in June.
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Write Read Write April 2024
Led by Kathy Gabriel, Alpha Nu members Joyce Bigley, Linda Scammell, Arlene Williams and Kathy Simmons recently spent an April afternnoon visiting the second grade classroom of Jennifer Preston and the third grade classroom of Rosanna Pirraglia at Holy Trinity Elementary School in Morrisville. These women had a mission: to gift student writers with free reading books according to interests they had expressed to Alpha Nu members in introductory letters. There was a buzz of excitement as each student's name was called to receive their gift-wrapped book and a letter from the teacher who had made the purchase. On the count of three, students unwrapped their books amidst smiles and oohs and aahs, and whether they began reading their sender's letter or the actual book itself, they were reading:-) This is a most gratifying literacy project coordinated with different classroom teachers every year. In an additional hope to encourage literacy, Kathy Gabriel presented two stacks of books to add to those already circulated through the school library. |
Linda Seifried and Alice Kirby made our service project, A Book and a Blankie, a reality with the delivery of 25 sets to the Help Center.
Our officers (as pictured) for the years 2024-2026
Our new officers: Co- Presidents Joyce Bigley, Cathy Caligiuri, First Vice President Carolyn Boodey, Second Vice President Cheryl Szogi, Recording Secretary Trish Davis, Parliamentarian Lynn Gordon, Corresponding Secretary Pam Ottenheimer, and Treasurer Deb Garonski.
DKG Chain of Command
President - Presides over meetings, sends out 4-5 newsletters/yr., liaison between international/state and chapter.
1st Vice-President - Coordinates programs and meeting buffets.
2nd Vice-President - Is in charge of new member voting and induction, membership anniversaries and retirees; all membership needs.
Recording Secretary - Records meeting minutes.
Corresponding Secretary - Sends out any correspondence to the sisters (agendas, minutes, communiques). Sends hard copies of paperwork to sisters without internet and Get Well/Sympathy cards.
Treasurer - Collects annual dues and keeps accounting of the yearly budget for audit. Keeps the chapter membership list updated for International and State by adding/deleting members and changing their membership status.
Roster Chair - Keeps record of yearly membership rolls on sisters once they are voted and inducted into DKG Alpha Nu Chapter. (Collects any change of address/phone number/email address/membership status) This roster is only for the use of chapter members. When a change is needed, it is the member’s responsibility to contact the roster chair. Changes should also be made to their International and State profiles (address, etc.) by using the DKG.org website. If these are not updated, you might not be receiving the newsletters and other important information.
Special Information
If you are sponsoring a new member to come to one of our meetings, you are responsible to forward the DKG Invitation to your friend. Until a person is voted into DKG, she will not be on the roster email list. Please give her the welcome letter (Linked from top of this page).
Every member of our impressive organization embraces the concept of educational excellence. At the local level, we have 80 enthusiastic educators; at the international level, we exceed 82,000 members. Imagine the impact that this society of energetic women has on Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the United States and the world!
At every level of involvement, the sisters of DKG support select women educators both personally and professionally. Leadership workshops, enrichment grants and scholarships are offered annually. Members gather together to share common strategies and goals at state, regional and international conferences. Moreover, our teachers generously contribute to the community and surrounding schools. Some ongoing chapter projects include the Book and Blankie gifts to newborns and their mothers, donations to neighborhood food pantries and the Write-Read-Write project to bring our love of reading to schools throughout Bucks County.
To learn more about The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, click on the links below.
Society Links: www.dkg.org
Pennsylvania State Organization https://dkgpa.weebly.com
DKG Educational Foundation
Society Vision: "Leading women educators impacting education worldwide."
Our meetings are held at the Cock and Bull Restaurant in Peddler's Village in Lahaska, PA.
At every level of involvement, the sisters of DKG support select women educators both personally and professionally. Leadership workshops, enrichment grants and scholarships are offered annually. Members gather together to share common strategies and goals at state, regional and international conferences. Moreover, our teachers generously contribute to the community and surrounding schools. Some ongoing chapter projects include the Book and Blankie gifts to newborns and their mothers, donations to neighborhood food pantries and the Write-Read-Write project to bring our love of reading to schools throughout Bucks County.
To learn more about The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, click on the links below.
Society Links: www.dkg.org
Pennsylvania State Organization https://dkgpa.weebly.com
DKG Educational Foundation
Society Vision: "Leading women educators impacting education worldwide."
Our meetings are held at the Cock and Bull Restaurant in Peddler's Village in Lahaska, PA.
