General Chapter Meeting
March 30-April 6, 2003
Meeting
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Welcome!We have an intriguing and timely program for this meeting which I will let our VP for Programs, Marion Carpenter, introduce. But I personally want to welcome our guest presenter, Margaret Thorsborne, who will be joining us from her home in Australia. I am especially grateful for her international perspective on the topics of school conflict and violence. At this time of fearfully escalating war in a troubled world, when we may all be feeling rather powerless, the guiding principle "think globally, act locally" reminds me that the very small things we do, the daily relationships we nurture, are KEY to creating the world of peace we all desire. I would also like to welcome another guest to this meeting -- Jo Ann Fujioka, Vice President on our PDK International Board of Directors. Jo Ann, we are pleased to share with you our unique meeting style, and I hope you will be comfortable interacting with us in this format. In addition to our program, we have these agenda items to deal with during the course of this meeting:
You will find additional material for some of these topics in the panel at left as fast as I can get files prepared and links created. ***** The MOST pressing item of business for this meeting is to determine our chapter's vote for International President-Elect. I've received the official ballot our chapter must submit before April 14. We must choose 3 from the 9 candidates, whom we favor to become finalists. The printed newsletter that International sends to all members--"News, Notes, and Quotes" for Winter 2002-03--has the candidates' biographical information and written statements in it. If you do not have your copy yet or that's not handy, you can download a pdf version of the newsletter here. Please review that material and select 1 to 3 candidates. Then:
***** Doris Sweeney is going to share a plan for rejuvenating our "Literacy Project". We have done nothing to support that program since the 2000-01 school year, but Doris really wants to get it rolling again. Let's support her efforts and energy! For some background on the project, read here a summary she prepared on the project's history which was posted to our website in 2001. Then watch for Doris's email with a plan for how we might proceed from here to breathe some life back into it. Andre Elliott, our Research Representative, has suggested that our chapter support a research project that is also being supported by his Tokyo chapter. He has sent me a proposal which I will post to our website for all to read--it'll probably be online by tomorrow evening or Tuesday sometime. So, to recap, please choose your candidates for International office as described above as soon as possible; plan to participate in the program via email once it's been opened by our guest presenter; and watch for my emails (or check in to our website "Meeting Center") every day or two to find new material as it is posted here, and to share your feedback. If you have any problems with the log in process for the ballot, or with access to any of the website material, please email me--I can usually figure out the problem and help. If your posts to pdk@waldenu.edu do not go through promptly, it may be because you are sending your message from an address other than the one you are subscribed under. When you do that, your messages are held in a queue until I find them there and pass them on. This is the main way we control the mailing list to prevent spammers and just "anybody" from clogging our communications. Thanks for "being here" everyone, and let's do some good things this meeting-- Gay -- Gay Wiseman President, Walden University Cyberspace
Chapter #1586, Phi Delta Kappa P.O. Box 255 / Dutch Flat, California
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