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Volume 36, Issue 1 September 2012

Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, Alpha Delta State, Beta Zeta Chapter
promotes professional and personal growth
of women educators and excellence in education.


All I Really Need To Know I
Learned In Kindergarten.
Welcome to a new year for Beta Zeta
chapter! I look forward to the help and
support of each of you as I begin my
term as your President. The program
committee has already been hard at
work and we have some fun and
informative meetings planned for the
coming months. We are going to learn
lots of new things!
Which reminds me, as much as I agree
with Robert Fulghum when he said in
his famous piece that all you really need
to know you learn in kindergarten, we
keep learning new things every day of
our lives. I may be a bit prejudiced
about kindergarten, having spent 36
years there, but we learn and have fun
at every chapter meeting, for example.
Having retired at the end of last school
year, I have learned a few new things
myself lately too, such as:
You really can have too many
books, especially when you have
to pack them all up and bring
them home!
Back to School Sales are just as
tempting as they always were.
Don't you still go weak at the
knees when you see crayons on
sale for 25 cents a box or pens at
99 cents a pack? Admit it, you
do!
Your bladder can be trained to
work at times other than recess
and lunch time.
Speaking of lunch, it really
doesn't have to be gulped in 10
minutes!
You don't have to buy new
underwear and socks just
because it is back to school time.
For the first time since I started
kindergarten (not telling you how
long ago), I am waiting until
Halloween or maybe even
Thanksgiving to buy undies!
(Unless I find too many holy
ones!)
Here's hoping that we all learn
something new every day and at every
chapter meeting! And as Mr. Fulghum
says at the end of his piece: And it is
still true, no matter how old you are--
when you go out into the world, it is best
to hold hands and stick together.



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Wish these Beta Zetas
A Happy Birthday!

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1 RAE ANN GAMBLER
4 MARLENE SMITH
6 MARY ANN WADE
8 CAROL SONNENBERG
10 NANCY MILLER
10 BEV WITTES
13 JACQUELINE URAN
18 CAROL FABIAN
19 JOAN KENNEDY
22 CAREN BUSH

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3 TARA CZARTOSKI
4 CANDACE OVERMYER
6 CATHY CRONINGER
7 NANCY JO SUNDAY
12 CAROL RORICK




Important Date to Remember
October 20, 2012

Next Chapter Meeting
Northwest State Community College
Building C, Room 200
Archbold, OH

Come at 9:15 am for our business
meeting. At 10:00 am enjoy our
program, Culinary Art, presented by
Pete Harrold, Instructor at Four County
Joint Vocational School. Well end our
day with luncheon at 11:00 am.



June Minutes

The June Meeting of Beta Zeta Chapter
was called to order by President Millie
Holzer. She welcomed the members
and said she hoped they had indulged
themselves with shopping at the Candy
Cane Shoppe and the Sauder Village
Gift Shoppe.

Copies of the OUTPOST were available.
Minutes of the April Meeting were
printed in the newsletter. Sue Myers
moved that the Minutes be approved as
printed. Bonnie Sasaki seconded the
Motion and it carried.

Also printed in the OUTPOST was the
Treasurers Report with a balance of
$1,309.07. With no objections, this
report will be filed for audit.

President Millie announced that Beta
Zeta as awarded a Gold Key Certificate
during the Alpha Delta State. The
certificate was given Doris Ruby for the
Historical Records.

A thank you was read from Margie
Dresbach for the donation to Dolly
Partons Imagination Library, which was
given at our April Meeting. In addition to
the donation, her honorarium for
presentation of the April program will be
used for books for children.

It was moved by Candi Overmyer and
seconded by Nancy Jo Sunday that
Karlyn McPike be invited to membership
in Beta Zeta. Motion carried.

The following Officers of Beta Zeta for
the 2012 2014 Biennium were
installed: President, Bev Wittes; First
Vice President, Nan Bretz; Second Vice
President, Ann Hange; Corresponding
Secretary, Kim Spiess; and Treasurer,
Candi Overmyer. The Recording
Secretary, Carol Rorick, will be installed
later.
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It was announced that several of our
members retired from teaching at the
end of this school year. Included were:
Bev Wittes, Bretta Pendelton, Nancy Jo
Sunday, Roxanne Headley, and Mary
Ann Wade. Our best to these folks as
they pursue new ways to fill the days!

Millie thanked the hostess committee for
todays meeting. She also thanked the
Chapter for allowing her to serve as
president and for the work of the
members to make it a great biennium.

The meeting was declared adjourned by
the President.

A delicious lunch from the buffet of The
Barn Restaurant was enjoyed by
everyone.
Respectfully submitted,
Millie Holzer,
Recording Secretary Pro Tem



Notice to snowbirds
See Kim Spiess if you do not want
meeting cards sent while you are gone.





From the Audit Committee

Pat Furnas and Sharyn Wheeler met on
August 6th to audit the DKG treasurers
books. We found all work to be in order
and commend Candi for a job well done.

Sharyn Wheeler



Treasurers Report

Balance carried forward: $1,309.07

Credits: 206.50

Subtotal: $1,515.57

Disbursements: 374.00

Total on Hand
9/02/12: $1,141.57





ITS DUES TIME AGAIN.
PAY TREASURER
CANDI OVERMYER

Active Members - $71.00
Reserve Members - $27.00
Active Life Members - $17.00






Bev Wittes, Ann Hange, Nan Bretz, and
Kim Spiess were installed as officers for
the 2012-2014 Biennium
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Congratulations to

Tara Czartoakis son Trent who
qualified for the National 4-H
Engineering Challenge with his welding
project after earning a clock trophy at
the state level for his Aces and Sparks
welding project. (Read about this feat in
the August 19, 2012 Defiance Crescent-
News article written by Lisa Nicely)

Doris Ruby who had served as
President of the Florida Arbor of
Gleaner Life Insurance Society for more
than 14 years and is now stepping
down. Charlene Freppel is taking her
place.



STRS eUpdate
From August 17
Board News
STRS Ohio Presents Pension
Reform Proposal to House
Subcommittee

At the August meeting of the State
Teachers Retirement Board, executive
director Michael Nehf provided an
update on the status of pension
legislation that is pending before the
Ohio House of Representatives. Nehf
told the board that the House Health
and Aging Subcommittee on Retirement
and Pensions held several hearings on
pension bills during the summer. On
Aug. 8 Nehf presented STRS Ohios
pension reform proposal to the
subcommittee and responded to
questions from its members.

Nehf told the subcommittee that STRS
Ohios changes are necessary to
preserve the pension fund and
acknowledged that the board-approved
plan has the support of the Healthcare
and Pension Advocates for STRSa
coalition that is comprised of groups of
active members, retirees and
employers. The STRS Ohio plan
increases age and service requirements
for retirement; calculates pensions on a
lower, fixed formula; increases the
period for determining the final average
salary; increases member contributions
to the system; reduces the cost-of-living
adjustment (COLA); defers the COLA
for future retirees; and call for no COLA
to be added in fiscal year 2014.

Now that all five statewide pension
systems have made presentations to the
subcommittee, this body is hearing
testimony from proponents, opponents
and interested parties. House
leadership has indicated that it plans to
hold additional hearings in August and
early September and expects to take
action on the bills in September.

(From your editor: Would you like to
have future eUpdates from STRS sent
to you? I receive this and others
because of my role as webmaster of the
Henry County Retired Teachers
website. Give me a request and Ill
forward these to you.)



Submit articles for the October Outpost
No later than October 1 to:
Karen Brubaker, Editor
919 Greenbriar Lane
Defiance, OH 43512
artfan@embarqmail.com