Members of Alpha Lambda Chapter of The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International met recently to install chapter officers for the 2022-2024 biennium and to celebrate DKG’s Founders’ Day.
Chapter officers (pictured) are (left to right): Marcia Bethea, president; Paula Stranahan, vice-president; Mary Claire Wiggins, secretary; Sarah Pullie, parliamentarian; Beth Jackson, assistant treasurer; and Susan Bryson, treasurer. The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International was founded May 11, 1929, at the Faculty Women’s Club at the University of Texas, Austin, Texas. The Founders believed that there was need for an organization in which women educators—rural and urban teachers; preschool, elementary, high school, college, and university teachers; librarians; school administrators; supervisors—might be united for efforts toward better professional preparation, recognition of women’s work in the teaching profession, and scholarships for those needing aid in improving their professional preparation. DKG continues its founders’ vision today (93 years later) with its seven purposes:
1. To unite women educators of the world in a genuine spiritual fellowship
2. To honor women who have given or who evidence a potential for distinctive service in any field of education
3. To advance the professional interest and position of women in education
4. To initiate, endorse and support desirable legislation or other suitable endeavors in the interests of education and of women educators
5. To endow scholarships to aid outstanding women educators in pursuing graduate study and to grant fellowships to non-member women educators
6. To stimulate the personal and professional growth of members and to encourage their participation in appropriate programs of action
7. To inform the members of current economic, social, political and educational issues so that they may participate effectively in a world society
