Missouri State

Tau Tales

2020-2021 Meeting Calendar Biennium

August 1 Lake of the

Ozark • June 5-6 NE Area Confer-

ence, Marshall (Missouri State will

advise of cancellation)

• December Mid-MO Tau hostess • July 7-11, 2020

International Con-vention 2020 Phil-adelphia, Marriott Downtown, Phila-delphia, PA

• April 16-18,

2021 MO State Con-vention Blue Springs

2018-2020 Officers

President Carol Cummings

First Vice President

Charlotte Dudenhoeffer

Second Vice President Julie Martin

Secretary

Robin Adams

Treasurer Paulette Fischer

Parliamentarian Colleen Abbott

Educating Worldwide

President Carol’s Message

Tau Chapter Missouri State Organization

INSIDE THIS ISSUE • February minutes • Treasurer’s report • Missouri State • Officers’ Reports • Committees • Forms Hyperlinked • April 4 Meeting

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April 2020 Volume 13 Issue 19

Dear Ladies: This is the last message that I will be sending you as Tau Chapter president. As with my other messages, I want it to be important and worthy of your reading time. These last two years serving you have graced me with honor and privilege as well as a growing time in my life. Who knew that at my age I could grow intellectually and with confidence? My support system is phenomenal: I can’t begin to count the times that Judy, Paulette, and Julie have been my safety nets, catching mistakes, and reminding me of tasks that I should have remembered. So many of you have offered encouragement and support throughout my term. Warmest, sincere thanks to all. You may have noticed in Deltagrams the many opportunities mentioned. There are scholarships, seminars, workshops, information about educational issues, health issues, networking, and global awareness. What other organization other than DKG could offer such diverse sub-jects? Take advantage of these opportuni-ties, ladies. Enrich your lives. Be aware of conferences that are on the calendar and may be canceled. “State officers, Leadership Chair, and Area Coor-dinator will decide. If the International conference is held in Philadelphia, PA, on July7-11, 2020, it is open to all members. “Experiencing DKG at the international level will change how one sees the Society.” One of my goals has been to encour-age attendance at meetings. We average 50%. Though I will be out of office, I shall encourage you, each member, to be regu-lar in attendance and increase to at least 75%. 100% may seem impossible; but we have all seen the impossible, why not Tau Chapter!!! A big thank you to all my officers: Charlotte, 1St VP who brought us out-standing programs; Julie, 2nd VP increas-ing our membership, presiding over cere-monies, and Lady of Distinction; Robin, an incredible secretary who kept precise, ac-curate minutes and sent them to me in a timely manner; Paulette, treasurer, who kept the money in good order and saved

my life too many times to mention! I so enjoyed our rides together. Thanks to all of you chairpersons for keeping the committees up and running. Then there are the very capable hostesses who provided scrumptious meals and treats. Your special themes were most enjoyable and kept me wanting to come back for fear that I would miss something fun. Yes, Delta Kappa Gamma can be fun as well as educational. Tau Chapter has done well in providing so much: recruitment grants to deserving high school senior girls interested in a degree in edu-cation; serving our communities; sponsoring scholarships; publishing a dynamite newsletter with Judy, the fearless editor of Tau Tales; Ar-lene serving as persona/professional growth/SEE chair; and proudly claiming a Missouri State officer, Paulette Fischer. Many of you have qui-etly gone about doing necessary duties without recognition: webmaster, Facebook editor, Mis-souri legislation informant, and TTC! Your work is needed and appreciated. Please support your new slate of officers. You can do so by being present at the meetings. I am confident that we will continue to see more great things accomplished by Tau Chapter, Mis-souri State, Delta Kappa Gamma. It has been a great pleasure serving you.

Carol Cummings, Tau Chapter presi-

dent

INSIDE THIS ISSUE • February minutes

• Treasurer’s report

• Missouri State report

• Officers’ reports

• Committees’ reports

• Tattle Tales

• COVID-19 fallout

• February meeting photos

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Tau Chapter, Delta Kappa Gamma February 1, 2020 Pioneer Trail Elementary School Meeting Minutes

. Our Incoming President Char-lotte Dudenhoeffer called the meet-ing to order, welcomed everyone, and thanked our hostesses: Julie Martin, Ashley Angle, Linda Eisinger, and Charlotte Dudenhoeffer. Stacey Dunham then presented our program on the Cadet Teacher curriculum in the Eldon School Dis-trict. Four students currently in the program were there to explain what they were learning in each class. The full year class offerings are Introduction to Teaching Profes-sions, Methods, and Practicum, which allows students to actually spend time in the classroom. Stacey showed some highlights which included Parents as Teacher month-ly playgroups, guest speakers, the ability to earn contract points by going to Board Meetings., doing presentations, and supporting teachers and other groups at school. Brit-tany Davenport, cooperating teacher and Tau member,

mentored the cadets in the program. Brittany spoke about the cadet teacher in her kindergarten class. Students in the program, also, go to college campuses—MU and Uni-versity of Central Missouri, two of the campuses-- to visit and speak to young people going into the teaching profes-sion. There is also a dual credit offering through UCM which offers a credit hour for $87.50 and a $4000 scholar-ship to their teaching program. Stacey concluded by say-ing that a teacher has to be a very special person, and she wants this curriculum to train them to love the profession. “It takes heart to be a teacher!” she said. We can tell that Stacy has that wonderful heart. Our Business Meeting began with 18 members in at-tendance. Gloria Fields moved, and Julie Martin seconded to approve the minutes of the October meeting. Paulette Fischer then gave the Treasurer’s Report. It was also ac-cepted and approved. She stated that dues will be collect-ed starting in April and this year active dues will be $70. Cards will be sent to Carol Cummings and Judy Stanford as they recover, and to Twila Limbaugh with the passing of her mother. The Necrology Service for Debbie Misenhelter was then given (see page 6). She passed away on Sept. 24, 2019, after a long battle with cancer. Angie Wolfe gave a beautiful woman educator and how much their friendship, both personal and professional, meant to her (see page 5) speech about Debbie’s accomplishments as a key woman Debbie represented all a DKG woman should be. We are all blessed for having known her.

Under Old Business, Colleen Abbot shared changes to our By Laws which included Delta State becoming Missouri State, and dues required to be paid earlier. The Yearbook is now online, and we will need to monitor standing committee changes. We discussed collegiate membership: the consensus was not to offer it at this time. We will vote on these changes at our April meet-ing. Under New Business, Charlotte handed out a survey to get ideas for programs and service projects in the fu-ture.

• Committee Reports: Arlene Broeker needs a report of volunteer hours or money donations given to help other teachers. Please email her if you have extra hours not given at the meeting.

• Recruitment Grant: Michelle Bilyeu shared the ap-plications she received for the recruitment grant, and we selected two we thought would benefit from the grant.

• Service Projects: Beth Dampf delivered 91 Tau Teacher Care Cups and traveled 201 miles to do so! Charlotte shared about HALO, the service project we contributed to at this meeting. It is a group that teaches parenting skills and helps new mothers in the area.

• Membership: Julie Martin reported that we have no new members at this time but encouraged us to take a teacher we know to lunch and tell them about DKG Scholarship : Charlotte re-minded us to check the DKG website for available scholarships.

• Nomination Committee: Sharon Buster read our new slate of officers: Charlotte Dudenhoeffer, presi-dent; Karen Blevins, first vice-president; Julie Martin, 2

nd vice-president; and Robin Adams, secretary.

Paulette Fischer will remain our treasurer, and Col-leen Abbott will remain our parliamentarian (see page 7). Mid-Mo Council Meeting in Columbia, De-cember 14, 2019, was attended by Judy Stanford, Paulette Fischer, Sharon Buster, Amy Potts, and Carol Cummings. Paulette said it was a very nice Christmas meeting, and that it is our chapter’s turn to host next year.

Announcements: National Legis-lative Seminar, March 15-18, 2020, Holiday Inn, Crystal City, and North-east Area Meeting will be June 5-6 in Marshall, Missouri. We closed with our DKG song of

thanks and adjourned to a wonderful

lunch and time of fellowship.

Robin Adams, Recording

Secretary

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Tau Chapter DKG Treasurer’s Report

March 15, 2020

Balance on hand January 20, 2020 $1,384.02 Receipts: Recruitment Grant 2/1 Luncheon $128.00 2/1 Silent Auction 40.00 Carol’s Birthday Gift to Ginger 100.00 Total Receipts: $ 268.00 Expenses: None — Balance on hand March 15, 2020 $1,652.02 Dues Collection Begins April 15. The window for dues collection is between April 15 and June 30. There is a $2 increase in state active dues, and a $1 increase in reserve/collegiate dues this year. We currently have no reserve or collegiate members. Active Dues Reserve/Collegiate Dues International $40 International $20 State 14 State 7 State Scholarship 1 State Scholarship 1 Chapter 10 Chapter 4 Ch. Recruitment Gr. 5 Ch. Recruit. Grant 5 ___ ___ $70 $37 Make checks payable to Tau Chapter DKG. If I don’t receive your dues by early June, I’ll be sending out reminders. Paulette Fischer 102 N Taylor California, MO 65018

DKG Vision Statement: Leading Women Educators Impacting Education Worldwide Purposes: Twelve women met in 1929 on the campus of the University of Tex-as in Austin with noble aspirations to build an organization to promote wom-en in education and bring recognition and respect to their profession. The result of their planning was the founding of The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International. These Founders created a list of five Purposes which were intended to guide the organization. This number later grew to seven. These Purposes are as relevant today as they were in . To Unite women educators of the world in a genuine spiritual fellowship. To Honor women who have given or who evidence a potential for distinctive service in any field of education. To Advance the professional interest and position of women in education. To Initiate, Endorse, and Support desirable legislation or other suitable en-deavors in the interests of education and of women educators. To Endow scholarships to aid outstanding women educators in pursuing graduate study and to grant fellowships to non-member women educators. To Stimulate the personal and professional growth of members and to en-courage their participation in appropriate programs of action. To Inform the members of current economic, social, political, and educational issues so that they may participate effectively in a world society.

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Missouri State President Jana Siefkas’ Meeting on Missouri State Issues

TAU TALES

Submitted by Deborah Teague

President Carol in the Parade of Presidents

The agenda included discussion about MO State Fa-cebook page, electronic meetings, area conferences, and International Convention. Tau Facebook Manager Brittany Davenport shared her findings sent to President Jana: Our page is a public page, so it sounds like they are wanting to create a private members group page which would function a little differently than the one set up for our chapter. They would just need to set the group to private, invite only when they establish the page.

• Many pages will "pin" a post to the top of the page that has the page guidelines to help set the tone and prevent member conflict. You can also have a "report to admin" option that members can use if they feel a post is going against those guide-lines.

• Maybe wording it as "We have a diverse member-ship so please remain respectful of all viewpoints, just as we remain respectful of all students.

• They are able to have page admins that would be able to approve posts before they are published, but depending on how many members they hope to have in the group (which at the state level I would imagine would be a lot) I really think it would be easier to not police each post, but rely on members to report offensive postings to the admin for review.

• They are also able to have members complete a short questionnaire when they ask to join the group which would help to vet members before they add. For example, they could ask what year they were initiated into DKG and maybe for their chapter name.

DKG MISSOURI STATE

To Stimulate the personal and professional growth of members and to encourage their participation in appropri-ate programs of action.

Jana Siefkas communication meeting on Facebook.

Hello Ladies, I wanted to share with you, since you are serving on the State Communication Committee, what was discussed at the State officers meeting Friday, January 31, 2020. Myr-na Walker, Communication Chair was able to attend. I know Mindi and Cindy were working and sorry to report that Judy fell and broke her ankle. Here is a review of what was discussed regarding Face-book:

1. Facebook page - dkdmissouri 2. Cay Sergent and Diana Ackley will monitor Mis-

souri’s Facebook page for the next 6 weeks.. 3. They will ask a select few to join (communication

Committee and a few others). 4. In about two weeks I will send out information to

all Chapter Presidents and invite them and mem-bers to join

5. At the end of 6 weeks, some or all of us, will meet to decide what the next step will be: establish

guidelines, who will monitor Facebook, will there be a cost involved, would Facebook monitor be a

paid position....etc... 6. Will need to get input from Finance Committee. 7. Diana will present information about Facebook at

Area Conference, if all our ducks are in a row:) Your input or thoughts would be appreciated. Thank you for serving on Missouri State Communication Committee.

Diversity Questions to Discuss at April Meeting.

Please be thinking about answers to the questions. Paulette suggested that we take a few minutes at the meeting to dis-cuss it. EMBRACING DIVERSITY 1. What does Embracing Diversity mean to you? 2. What current issues regarding diversity are of concern to your members? 3. What initiatives are being undertaken by state organization and chapters? (We send a contribution to the World Fellowship Fund every year from our chapter. $50. From our State, $100.)

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Second Vice President/Membership Chair Julie Martin

Debbie was one of those very rare people you’re lucky to meet at least once in your lifetime. I’m lucky to have called her a good friend. When I met her, she had re-tired to the Lake from teaching thirty years in Excelsior Springs, MO, but

she still had that same fire for teaching. She became a frequent substitute in my building, and that’s when I met her. I’d never met such a posi-tive person in every aspect of her life, as Debbie. I believe it was part of what drew students to her wherever she taught. Her positivity and faith are also what helped her beat cancer twenty years earlier. She had the gift of putting things into perspective, another teacher su-per-power! Seeing the whole picture seemed easy for her. As our friend-ship grew, she became my confidant as I struggled to start a family. Her wise, encouraging words calmed me and helped me to believe it would happen. I remember the moment I shared with her that I was preg-nant. She squealed with delight!!! Debbie was the only teacher I wanted to sub for me on my materni-ty leave. Those were my kids and I knew that Debbie would treat them exactly as I would. Yup, I was right! She spoiled me rotten. She didn’t even want me to leave sub plans. At that time I was a reading specialist and it was the first week of school. I showed her the DRA assess-ments that she would be giving for the first three weeks and gave her focus topics such as listening and comprehension skills. She created some really cool activities. One of them was where she had stu-dents make owls (they had to listen to what shape they were making and how they were going to attach each piece.) They were all hanging up in the hall when I returned. What a hoot!

Zander was pretty sick the first few years. I could text Debbie in the morning before I even called my principal. It was comforting to know that Debbie would be my sub. She always agreed without hesita-tion, saying, “You know I wouldn’t do this for any-body, but for you—no questions asked.” A few times I asked her to come to the house and watch him so that I could go to work. Of course, she was happy to help out any way that she could. That’s what made her such a great friend. She was the first person I wanted to call on the phone or chat with at our water aerobics class about anything that happened at school or with life in gen-eral, really. I will always treasure her advice. Not only was Debbie so giving with her counsel, she always took the time to show those around her how much she loved them. She left many handmade gifts for Zander or myself on our front porch. She re-

membered both of our birthdays and always left a card with a token of her thoughtfulness inside. Debbie loved to be around peo-ple! Whether she was subbing, working at J Crew, going to book club meetings, exercising, or coming to DKG meetings, it fed her passion to be a service to others. These things gave her a chance to use her gifts and spread her passion for edu-cation. When cancer returned, she never lost her positive attitude. She never lost her fire and passion. She never lost her faith. Her husband, Terry told me that he never once heard her say a negative thing about being sick or having cancer. How angelic!!! The last time we visited, she was every bit the same friend I had met nearly a decade earlier and

more. She didn’t even look sick! I hadn’t seen her look and act this strong for months. We ate a sweet summer treat of ice cream and strawberries, watched HGTV, and chatted about summer vaca-tions and the beginning of another school year. What a blessing she continued to be to everyone around her right up to the end. Rest in peace, sweet friend. Angie Wolfe

Debbie Misenhelter Tribute

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TAU COMMITTEES AT WORK

TAU TALES

Nominations Chair Sharon Buster

Congratulations to Tau’s new 2020-2022 Biennium Officers!

Charlotte Dudenhoeffer, president

Julie Martin, 2nd vice president

Karen Blevins, 1st vice president

Robin Adams, secretary

Paulette Fischer, treasurer

Colleen Abbott, parliamentarian

The new slate of officers are duly installed after unani-mous vote by the executive committee. I notified Char-lotte and will send a message to the former and present officers. President Carol Cummings (March 19, 2020)

TAU TALES

To Stimulate the personal and professional growth of members and to encourage their participation in appropriate program of action.

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Professional Affairs: Legislation Chair Robin Adams

Everybody loves a snow day once-in-a-while, but the downside is they have to be made up. Two new laws are helping to fix this reality. The first law went into effect this school year (19-20). “Districts are no longer required to have a

school year of at least 174 days, but must meet an hours’ requirement of 1,044.” There are sev-eral options schools can take: “Schools can choose to add an additional day to the school year. They could also add time to existing school days to slowly make up instructional time over the year, thus preventing the need for addi-tional days at the end. Or schools on a four-day week can add a 5th day in order to make up hours.” As it has been in the past, if a large number of days have been missed because of weather, no more than 60 hours of instructional time must be made up. The second helpful law will go into effect next school year (20-21). “It allows schools to create DESE approved ‘alternate methods of instruc-tion to make up time lost in the classroom due to events outside of the districts’ control including inclement weather, a utility outage, or an out-break of a contagious disease. Under this law, schools can have a plan in place for instruction for students when school would otherwise be canceled. By completing the lessons at home, with access to teacher-student interaction, the school isn’t required to make up the missed time.” Both laws are designed to give schools a bit more flexibility. https://www.msta.org

The World Fellowship Commit-tee International grants World Fellowships in accordance with the Constitution and Interna-tional Standing Rules when sufficient funds are availa-ble. Since 1946, DKG has awarded scholarships to 963 women in 122 coutries. These women are International Stu-dents working on Masters and Doctorial Degrees in the US and Canada. Applications for

the 2020-2021 Academic year are now being received and will be chosen in May. Tau Chapter contributes $50 annually to this worthy endeavor.

World Fellowship Chair Dana Burkle

Please continue volun-teering at local schools/preschools. Time spent with students is very im-portant to all of us. Offer-ing to help teachers is also a wonderful way to contribute. Thanks!

SEE Chair Arlene Broeker

Happy Spring, la-dies. It is amazing how the days fly by; sometimes we put off tomorrow what we could do today. Please let me know as soon as possible if you feel one of our ladies needs a card of en-

couragement of any kind. It would be my pleasure to do this for our valuable members. "Let's give away love like we're made of it." Let's remember how easy (and quick) it is to show our members our love with our words, prayers and a big smile at our next meeting.

Courtesy Chair Karen Blevins

To Inform the members of current economic, social, political issues so that they may participate effectively in a world society

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Webmaster Nancy Lewis

January 31, 2019, 91 Tau Teacher Care cups were delivered to first-year teachers, and I traveled 201 miles delivering to the schools. I did this all in one day, so it was a good sightseeing adventure!

Communication Chair Judy Stanford

Tau member, my granddaugh-ter Melissa Hindman gifted our family with our first great-granddaughter, Rowyn Nora Hindman. What joy! Communication submitted and article and photo of Stacy and Britanny’s program to the El-don paper. Each of the 2020-2022 Tau

Tales will have a section re-introducing our members: “Tattle Tales.” I will be asking two more to update and personalize for the summer Tales. Report members who make the papers or come to your attention. Tau members are leaders! Thank you, Debbie, for all the great February 1 meet-ing photos in this issue! See more Debbie’s meeting photos at taudeltastate.weebly.com

TTC (Tau Teachers Care) Chair Beth Dampf

MacKinzi Atwell (California High School) and Emma Salmons (Eldon High

School) Good morning, just wanted to let you know that the April DKG meeting has been officially canceled. We will get your scholarship checks to you in the mail in the weeks to come. So sorry for your senior years getting

so disrupted. We would like a picture of each of you for our newsletter if you have one you could send me that would be great. Also, we will have a meeting in August (not sure of the date yet) that we would like to invite you and your mother's to attend if you are available. Thanks! Please don't forget to send me a picture.

Recruitment Grant Chair Michele Bilyeu

Recently I had an email from Myrna Walker, Chair of the DKG State Com-munications Commit-tee. I will share some of her comments with you. "After evaluating your chapter website, ... I would just like to say that we appreciate all your hard work on a beautiful

website! I know how much work it takes! It was great to see the Deltagrams on your site, some Missouri Legislative information, the International Constitution, the Missouri Bylaws AND the Standing Rules! You even had other DKG publi-cations listed as well. “I loved the idea of a Lady of Distinction award! What a great idea! ...Overall, your (Tau Chapter) website is outstanding and you should be exceptionally proud of it!!" She included two suggestions for improve-ment: membership information that is public and making project information more visible. So I will be developing a membership profile/information page with no personal information (such as address, phone number, etc.) and high-light the project information. So stay tuned...there's always something new on the Tau Chapter website.

Emma Salmons

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TATTLE TALES

Charlotte Dudenhoeffer rhette75@mchsi.com Delta Kappa Gamma Induction: October 14, 1989 Member # 281964 Birthday: June 11 * Anniversary: August 25, 1984 Favorite Snack: Gummy Bears and BBQ potato chips Hobbies/Interests: Love crafts. . . I especially en-joy making my fleece maw maw blankets for family and friends. My interests include talking with older people. . .being reminded of the good old days. Favorite Book: Oh! the Places You Will Go--this was a good read and often read to students in my class. . . we used it to do many different writing as-signments and had lots of class discussions. Teaching Experience: 31 years in Special Service--New Bloomfield 2 years; Eugene 3 years; and Jefferson City Public Schools, special education, 15 years, elementary level and 11 years-middle school level Current Position: Retired Family: Husband Fred, retired from the state and started his own private practice in counseling; Daughters Michelle Sullivan and Shanna Schwarzer; Son Mark Dudenhoeffer; Grandchildren: Hayden, Brooke, Jack, Kelly, Ben, Jamisen, Melissa and McKenna; Our family cat Natalie has passed but she very much lives on in our house and memo-ries. Teaching Hint: Never underestimate young minds. . . they tend to know more than we give them credit for. . . too often we are not listening. . . we are too busy talking.

Get re-introduced . . .

Brittany Davenport Brittany.davenport@elsonmustangs.org Induction April 4, 2018 Member #495271 Birthday July 2 *Anniversary: May 23, 2009 Favorite Snack: Chex Mix, Snickers, Twizzlers Hobbies/Interests: I typically journal in a bound journal. I like the selection and price at Five Below. ;) I journal for my bible study so it is typically based on a passage or verse. I sometimes keep it simple by just writing a question the verse has caused me to ponder and then try to reflect on it or sometimes I try to artistically draw out a verse that I want to memorize. This last summer I did an in depth study of the book of James so I actually purchased the book of James with lined pages off of Amazon and completed my journaling in that instead of a separate book and I really enjoyed it. With my digital scrapbooking I use the Shutterfly web-site. I try to make one book for each of my girls every year to kind of keep track of the milestones they have reached. I also post about them all the time on my personal Facebook page and I hashtag their posts with a different hashtag each year. Then as I'm making their scrapbooks (usually in June and July when I have more free time) I go back through Facebook and screenshot all the funny stories so that they will have those memories included as well. I'll attach a link to the current book I've been working on. https://link.shutterfly.com/e/r00vh58ds4 and here is a page from Addy's age 4 book. Favorite Book: anything by Robert Munsch, Harry Potter Series, Not a Fan by Kyle Idleman Teaching Experience: I have taught all grades K-3, this is my 9th year teaching and my 5th year in kinder-garten. Current Position: Kindergarten teacher at Elson South Elementary in Eldon Family: Kyle (husband), works as daytime custodian at South School, Addy (age5) currently in preschool, Nora (age 2) all the confidence of a much older child Teaching Hint: Laugh constantly with your kids (especially at your flaws) and allow students to talk because true learning happens through cooperation and conversation.

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Carrie Martin, South Elemen-tary instructional coach and Tau member 2011(on the right) re-ceives a $4,905.10 check from the Jeffer-son City Public Schools Founda-tion. Submitted photo. “Schools receive grants from JCPS Founda-tion,” New Tribune, March 5, 2020.

Jefferson City’s Mayor the Honorable Carrie Tergin (Tau’s honorary member 2018) and Missouri First Lady Teresa Parson’s (DKG Mis-souri honorary mem-ber 2019) chief of staff, read to Thorpe Gordon Elementary School first– and second-graders. Julie Smith, News Tribune, March 12, 2020

TAU TALES

To Honor women who have given or who evidence a potential for distinctive service in any field of education.

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MEETING DATE: Summer August 1 Lake of the Ozarks

Tau Tales: Judy Stanford, ed. Email: jastanford30@gmail.com

Tau website: ed. Nancy Lewis lewis.nm@gmail.com or text 573-691-2970

Facebook: Brittany Davenport http:www.facebook.com/dkgtau/

From President Carol: Installation of Officers Searching the president’s duties and standing rules for Tau Chapter, it is my understanding that the exec-utive committee has the authority to install the incom-ing officers. To Charlotte, Karen, Julie, Paulette, Robin, Colleen, do you approve installing the selected slate of offic-ers: President, Charlotte Dudenhoeffer; First Vice President, Karen Blevins; Second Vice President, Julie Martin; Treasurer, Paulette Fischer; Recording Secretary Robin Adams; Parliamentarian, Colleen Abbott?

Approve or disapprove

This is an unusual situation where action must be tak-en to ensure a smooth transition into the next bienni-um. I honor your decision and consideration of this matter. Carol Cummings President Tau Chapter Delta Kappa Gamma March 18, 2020 Consideration is approved by the Executive Com-mittee:

I notified Charlotte and will send a message to the former and present officers.

To Honor women who have given or who evidence a potential for distinctive service in any field of education.

TAU TALES

I notified Charlotte and will send a message to the former and present officers

From President Charlotte (2020-2022) At the August meeting, Tau will recognize the La-dy of Distinction. The executive officers will meet in June, if the COVID-19 has ended, to set the agenda for the biennium. Ladies, we will keep you informed of things as they develop. . . less info is better than too much or disinformation. . . we need less confusion. Missouri State President Jana Siefkas will keep us advised of North East Conference and Interna-tional Convention. Charlotte Tau Chapter president March 20, 2020

Be safe! Let’s all celebrate August 1!

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February 1 Meeting Clockwise from left: Hostess Ashley Angle, Recruitment Grant raffle, service donations with Colleen Abbott, photographer Debbie Ferguson with Lianne Hollander, and our Necrology service