Beta Beta Chapter. Southern York County, Pennsylvania. September, 2018 Volume 51 No. 1. President s Message

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1 The Delta Kappa Gamma Society Beta Beta Chapter Southern York County, Pennsylvania September, 2018 Volume 51 No. 1 President s Message This poem, author unknown, is such a true picture of what it means to educate a child! This is just what we do. Enjoy this time of the year as schools begin again and the power of Unity takes hold!

2 For behind the parents stood the school and behind the teacher stood the home! Amen Sisters! Our first meeting will be held at the Susan P. Byrnes Health Education Center at 515 South George Street starting promptly at 4:30 pm on September 18. Carol Hovis will present to us and a donation will be given to the Center. A business meeting will follow the presentation and the reflection will be done by the

3 Historical Records Committee (R. Schmidt, A.M. Carberry, L. Dick). Refreshments will be provided by two committees, Visual and Performing Arts (S. Chase, E.J. Hess), and Finance (E. Lawyer, N. Bentzel, P. Landis). Hope to see many sisters here! Your presidents, Kitty and Norina, have been busy looking for new ideas to enlighten our meetings a bit! Some changes are in store for you that we hope you will like. For instance, we will be spending some time on the innovative topic of mindfulness and for most of our meetings we will explore some Mindful Musical Messages in place of the reflections portion of our meetings. A few minutes of music will be played in which we can reflect on how the music and the messages in its lyrics speak to us. Also, we would like to spend some time celebrating us! Our members who were initiated in the month of our meeting will be acknowledged! Let s just say that September does have quite a few twenty-two to be exact. We will also play a York County, What s This? trivia game. One of our members will leave the meeting with a prize too! As we come together again in unity as sisters of Delta Kappa Gamma, Kitty and I look forward to seeing you on September 18 th! Basket Bonanza This year, we are going to try a new approach to raising money for our York College students who receive our grant-in-aid. At every meeting, we will be selling raffle tickets. At the end of each meeting, a ticket will be drawn, and one person will win the raffle basket. This will most likely not totally fund our grant-in-aid, but at least it will be a fun way to try fundraising. Tickets will be $1 each, or six tickets for $5. The first basket is called the ME, ME, ME, ME, ME basket. It is filled with items just for you (all perfectly G-rated). Don t forget to bring your dollars for raffle tickets. Maybe YOU will be the lucky winner at the first meeting you won t want to share this with anyone!

4 Teddy Bear Service Project For the past six years, we have given Beanie Babies to children brought into the emergency room at Memorial Hospital. While they were a huge hit with kids, it is time to move forward onto another service project. With increasingly more first responders having to deal with more incidents involving children, we decided to provide first responders with teddy bears to carry in their vehicles to use when their call involves children. By giving the bears to first responders, we can cover police, ambulance, and fire personnel. At each meeting, we will collect teddy bears. Once we have amassed a sizeable collection of teddies, we will donate them to local police/fire/ambulance stations. All teddies need to be new. We will also put them into individual bags for safekeeping. As much as we would like to reuse teddies we have on hand, for purposes of infection and allergy prevention, the teddies need to be new. Oriental Trading Company has 6 teddy bears for $19.95 a dozen. Perhaps several of you might want to go together to buy a dozen to donate to the cause. Amazon has a grouping of 8 teddy bears that are four for $10. With the holidays coming, there will probably be more stores locally that also have inexpensive child-safe teddy bears that can be donated. We look forward to your participation in this service project. It will bring comfort to local children during a trying situation in their lives. We Need Your Opinion Every year, fewer and fewer sisters participate in our fundraising efforts for the grant-in-aid monies that we give to students at York College and this is one of the most important projects in our chapter. While we still have ample funds in our checking account, we cannot continually draw it down or we will end up in the danger zone financially. Like most of you, selling something isn t on our burning list of things to do every year. So, we would like you to decide how you would like to fund the grant-in-aid program. Here are some suggestions for your consideration: Basket of Change Collection Penny War Between Committees Christmas Donation Tree Annual Giving Envelope at Our Birthday Meeting in May Three Month Donation Calendar

5 Asking Each Sister to Donate $20 to the Grant-in-Aid Bake-less Bake Sale Yard Sale at Someone s House Collection Banks Hold an Event (such as Bingo) Your Suggestion Please give some serious thought to a way that might entice you to help us fund the grant-in-aid project for this year. Your input is most important for us to discuss at the first meeting, so please come with your suggestions. Thanks so much! State Convention Raffle Basket Last year, our raffle basket for State Convention was filled with paper products for an entire year s worth of holidays. Our contribution helped the state earn $4,000. To help defray the cost of state convention. We will be asked to again contribute a raffle basket for convention this year. This year s basket will be hostess gifts. You know how you always need that little something when you go to someone s house? Well, this year our chapter is going to take care of that! There will be a sign-up sheet at the first two meetings asking several of your to go together to provide some type of hostess gift that can be included in our raffle basket. In this way, it s not so painful to get something for the basket. (Christmas Tree Shop is a treasure trove of inexpensive gift ideas that can be used. They have something for every occasion throughout the year. Five Below also has loads of items that can be used, as does Home Goods, At Home, T J Maxx, and Marshall s.) Please buddy up with a small group for this project and sign up at the September or October meeting. Dues It s time to pay your dues for Dues are $ Please make your check payable to Beta Beta. If you are attending the September 18 th meeting, please plan to pay your dues then.

6 If you can t be at the September meeting, please mail your dues to me as soon as possible: Pat Landis, 753 Daylight Drive, York PA Thank you for taking care of this so I can send our dues to state by the set deadline. PROPOSED BETA BETA CHAFPTER BUDGET FIRST YEAR OF THE BIENNIUM Estimated BALANCE JULY ESTIMATED INCOME Dues (Active Members (33*$100) $ Dues (Reserve Members) Book grant ( yard sale, car wash, Christmas tree) Estimated Income $ $ Beginning Balance TOTAL FUNDS on HAND ESTIMATED EXPENDITURES State and International Dues and $ Scholarship ($1 per member included) (Active $58 and Reserve $28) State and International Initiation Fee

7 ($5 per member) $ Yearbook Pages (printing/paper) Membership Supplies (name tags, roses $ pres pins, etc) State Convention Expenses $ (Lodging, Registration, Banquet fees for President and First V.P. 1 st year, or Incoming Presidents 2 nd year) Program, Entertainment, and Speakers, including rental fees $ Newsletters (Postage, labels, and paper) $ Bonding $ Miscellaneous $ ( bank services,etc) Remembrance Committee $ State Visitation/Outgoing State $25.00 President s Gift Arts Conference ( year 1) $ Leadership Conference (Year 2) Grant In Aid $ Member attendance at state convention $ ($50.00 each x 5) TOTAL (Estimated Expenditures) $ ESTIMATED BALANCE $ Finance Committee: Eleanor Lawyer (Treasurer), Norina Bentzel (chair), Pat Walker, Kathy Lauer

8 Treasurer s Report June 30, 2018 Balance May 4, 2018 $ Checking Account Receipts Total Receipts $0.00 Disbursements N. Bentzel-st conv K. Reinholt -st conv P. Walker - st conv K. Lauer st conv B. Thompson - st conv Total Disbursements $ Balance - June 30, 2018 $ ************************************************************************** Balance - May 4, Savings Account Book Grant Fund Deposits April interest $.54 May interest $.55 June interest $.53 Total Deposits $1.62 Disbursement

9 Total Disbursements 0.00 Balance -June 30, TOTAL ASSETS CHECKING ACCOUNT SAVINGS ACCOUNT TOTAL Compiled by Eleanor Lawyer, Former Treasurer Reported by Pat Landis, Treasurer Beta Beta Minutes May 5, 2018 Country Meadows York, PA Welcome: Crystal began the meeting and Dr. Lyn Schmid joined us. Reflection was given by Kathy Lauer, and read by Pat Walker called God Created the Teacher. Approval of minutes: Emily No corrections or additions; motion made by Joan and seconded by Norina to pass the March minutes Correspondence: Crystal shared that Connie s father passed away; Treasurer s Report: Eleanor May balance for checking: $2, Savings account $

10 Book grant raised $200 beyond Committees: Finance Norina requested receipts if there is anything. She will pass them to Eleanor. World Fellowship Dr. Schmid shared that PA has 3 world fellowship recipients. Penn State, Carnegie Mellon, and Drexel. She suggested that we could get in touch with the recipient closer to us in central PA to correspond with. Historical Records none Visual Performing Arts Sally shared that there are many festivals and shows this summer. She suggested getting a group of members to attend these together. Scholarship none Nominations New members are to be inducted at this meeting. Programs Our May meeting will be on May 9 th at 5:30 held at Bethlehem United Methodist Church, Dallastown, not at Trish s home. We will watch three videos as to the history as our organization. There is plenty of handicap parking at the front entrance, which will lead to the meeting place. We will also get to see Trish s preschool. Program of Work none Projects Bonnie is willing to host the yard sale at her home. Second weekend in July. Hoping for better weather. US Forum none Communications none Remembrance Thinking of you Ella Jane!! Membership Becky shared that there may be a perspective member.

11 Rules After international meets this summer, we will see what passes and whatever changes we will see. Program of Work none Unfinished Business: Secret Sister Kathy Lauer New Business: None Announcements: Our next meeting will be on May 9 th at 5:30 at Bethlehem United Methodist Church, Dallastown Pat Walked mentioned who would be attending the state conference. Members got together to make bookmarks for the state convention. Don t forget to bring your paper goods for the basket at our May meeting. Pat motioned, Joan seconded to close the meeting. Respectfully submitted, Emily Olenick, Secretary Following the meeting, there was breakfast and Dr. Lyn Schmid did the installation of officers for the next biennium. Co-President: Norina Benzel 1 st Vice President: Trish Bowersox Corresponding Secretary: Linda Ehrhart Recording Secretary: Joan Hammond Treasurer: Pat Landis Beta Beta Minutes May 9, 2018 United Methodist Church, Dallastown, PA

12 Welcome: Crystal welcomed everyone to the meeting. We reflected on the end of school. Approval of minutes: Emily Latest minutes were taken 4 days ago! Minutes for both the April meeting and May meeting will be in the next newsletter. Correspondence: Treasurer s Report: Eleanor May balance for checking: $2, Savings account $ Book grant raised $200 beyond Committees: Finance no report World Fellowship no report Historical Records no report Visual Performing arts no report Scholarship no report Nominations no report Programs Thanks to Trish for locating DKG info and getting tonight s meeting together Program of Work no report Projects no report US Forum no report Communications no report

13 Remembrance no report Membership no report Rules no report Program of Work no report Unfinished Business: Secret Sister Trish Bowersox New Business: Installations were done for Kitty Reinholt and Judy Alwine for the positions of copresident and second vice president respectively. Announcements: Our next meeting will be at the Susan Brynes Center on September 18 th at 4:30 p.m. Door prize was given to Trish Bowersox for her coordination for programs this biennium. Thank you Crystal for your leadership this year! Respectfully submitted, Emily Olenick, Secretary

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