Chapter Meeting and Program

Fall 2006

During the meeting...

Meeting Links...

• Opening Message
  and Updates
  from the President
• Officer Reports
  and Chapter Business
  DISCUSSION

Program Links

• JEPSC
  (Journal of Educational Practice and Social Change)
• Discuss the JEPSC
  and the
  2006 PDK Gallup Poll

Welcome!

Opening Message from President, Marion Carpenter

November 4, 2006

Fall is here, and I have been with the season - fallin' behind due to family health issues, mostly. However, this has got to be the most exciting year ever! We will initiate the journal & also the scholarships, along with new email addresses for all! These are major milestones which we have dreamed of since before our inception as a chapter - now they are coming true, thanks to much hard work by all of you! Special thanks to Dr. Simon, Jarek, and Doris for work on the journal; Arthur on the scholarships, and Gay & Greg for working on getting the email addresses straightened out. Special thanks and a big welcome to our new "elect" officers for stepping up to the plate - David, Mary, Karine, Candace, Nell, Bianca, and Greg. Also special thanks to Barb, Jenny, Andre, & Charles, who are always ready to help, solid as rocks. Without this entire core group, this chapter would not be such a shining star in PDK. I believe we are the only chapter to have "elect" officers training for next year already - those of you who have just stepped up, you are making history! I'm sure nobody else has an online journal, and after seeing how wonderful our website is, the best website contest was closed as they knew we would win every year. Andre has stepped forward as a representative of Talking Communities, and we congratulate him for that; it will make a good step forward for us, too. It is good to greet all of you again. I am in touch with Intl about cutting our price & will get back with you all.

Heartiest congratulations to Dr. Charles Smith, who, as president of the Augusta, GA branch of the NAACP has been awarded the highest medal of honor offered. In addition, his chapter has won far more awards than any other. He has worked hard for his chapter, and has been aptly awarded. Charles is a past president of our chapter and a present advisor.

If any questions, please contact me. It's great to be with you once more!!

Marion

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Agenda

1. Old Business:
   1. Spring meeting vote results
      • Officers elected, as follows:
        • President: Marion Carpenter
        • VP Membership: Jarek Janio/David Waldman
        • Treasurer: Arthur Ogden/Mary Morris
        • Foundation Rep: Karine Clay (Helped by Marion)
        • Programs Director: Jennifer Pullman/Bianca Elliott
        • CommDir/Web: Gay Wiseman/Greg Williams
        • Secretary: Candace Stine (Helped by Andre & Marion)
        • Newsletter Editor: Barbara Hopkins-Cox/Alvanell Demming
        • Historian: Andre Elliott (Helped by Charles Smith)
        • Advisor 1: Marilyn Simon; Advisor 2: Charles Smith
      • Congratulations to West Cape May, NJ - winner of Literacy Project
   2. Regrets/gift sent to Carol Van De Pol, who lost 2 family members. Carol was our former Historian & Foundations Rep.
   3. Interest better on $2500.00 minimum in treasury, or should we get a lower minimum amount and more available cash?
   4. Amy Kemp (PDK International Membership Director) presented to various groups of Walden scholars during Summer Session to help increase membership.
   5. Journal of Educational Practice and Social Change. To debut this Fall with an online issue. Journal staff: Dr. Marilyn Simon, Jarek Janio, with Doris Sweeney as Reader.
   6. Bylaws to be revised by Gay, Andre, Marion. Review and commenthere.
   7. Literacy Project Past Winner- Thank you email from Doris for Winegard School
   8. Treasurer Audit being done by Arthur.
   9. Procure medallions to honor our grads at commencement
   10. One accepted article for journal to be used as prototype for others to see how it is to be done
2. New Business:
   1. Raising funds from "Simon's Scholars" as well as Poppenhagen's for our Simon-Poppenhagen Scholarship fund.
   2. Presentation of our new Cyberspace Journal by Dr. Simon, Jarek Janio, and Dr. Doris Sweeney.
   3. Andre Elliott attended a PDK leadership conference and learned more
      about the use of NiceNet & Talking Communities which may enable us to have some actual talking discussions. There may also be monies available for our infrastructure and journal.
   4. Two free subscriptions available for the Kappan to guests—please contact our secretary, Candace, ckstine[at]valornet[dot]com, if you know somebody who may be interested.
   5. I have had contact with PDK International regarding a reduction in membership fees for our cyberspace chapter. To do so, every member would need to agree to having no paper mailed to them (this refers to the PDK publications included with membership); instead, to read them, go online to the website (www.pdkintl.org) where you will click on whatever item you wish to read—some are in colored boxes at the bottom; for the rest click on Publications (3rd from bottom) & choose. You need to log in using your member number found on your membership card or on the mailing label of a Kappan magazine. Please contact me if you want a reduction in cost for membership & will switch to using the online publications. Otherwise, I will be calling you (which will be nice, too). THANKS!

As always, thank you for being here! You are appreciated!

Please discuss these topics or any new business you'd like to bring up by clicking the link to the Officer Reports and Chapter Business Discussion page.

Thank you!!
Marion