The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International

THE NEWS FROM NU CHAPTER

TEXAS STATE ORGANIZATION
Nu Chapter # 13 Area 7 Alpha State, Texas Hays and Blanco Counties
Volume 1 No. 4 November, 2015
The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International promotes professional and personal growth of women
educators and excellence in education.
2014-2016 International Theme 85 Years and Beyond: Advancing Key Women Educators for Life
2015-2017 TSO Theme The Heart of the Society is Its Members

Editor: Nadyne Gartman www.nadynedkg@gmail.com

Have a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year of 2016!

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Cont from Sandra

I feel richer today than ever before for my DKG
boxes have been filled with friendships, knowledge
and wisdom all contained inside of them. I have
been a member for almost 30 years (initiated in
1986) and each year, another DKG box gives me
more than I ever expected.

Straight from Sandra

Boxes! Its that time of the year when you will
see many boxes. They come in all shapes and
sizeslittle boxes, big boxes, star shaped
boxes, etc., etc. They serve different purposes--industrial strength ones for shipping, lighter
ones for everyday use and dainty ones for
exquisite items. And, they are made of
different materials---cardboard, plastic and
lovely woods. Just like boxes, DKG has many
members serving different purposes---each
different in her own way; each offering
expertise in different areas; each working to
meet different goals. Each important in her own
self. Without this variety our Society would not
be as successful as it is today.

This past year and a half as your Chapter President,

has given me even more. Your outpouring of love,
dedication, commitment and service (especially
these last few weeks) have enriched my life in
unimaginable ways. Wes and I cant thank you
enough for all youve done for us. We are truly
blessed to have found you in our boxes.
I hope that all your future boxes will hold many
wonderful things for you. Dont limit yourself to
one type of box. Fill your life with variety; after all,
it is the spice of life!
May you find a blessed Christmas, a wonderful
New Year and a great DKG experience in the boxes
under your tree this year.

Several of the quilts and bolsters were made by

Nadyne Gartman and if some of you, not having a
chance to make one yourself, would like to
reimburse her for one, or two, you may contact
her.

CALLING ALL NU ELVES!

All elves may contact me for more instructions.

Our December meeting may be described as an

Almost Progressive Party--you know the ones
where you have appetizers at one place, the main
meal elsewhere and end up some place else for
dessert! Here is how ours will progress.

Thank you!
Santa Sandra

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Some of our chapter elves will visit the residents

at Wimberley Life Care and will deliver the
handmade lap quilts and bolsters made by several
of our member elves. The parking there is minimal
so for those of you wishing to help with this part of
our meeting, lets plan to meet at the parking lot at
the First Baptist Church at 4:45 P.M. Then, we can
carpool to the nearby WLC. The Activities Director,
Janice, said five oclock is the best time to show
up. We can sing a few carols, visit with the
residents and deliver our gifts before heading out
to our meeting place.

Wimberley Life Care, Wimberley, TX

5:00 p.m.
Meeting following at
106 Sendero Arbolado
Program Title: The Gift of Giving
Program Purpose: To honor community members,
former teachers who are living in nursing homes.
Society Purpose: # 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.
#6, #7

The meeting elves will be setting up at the house

across the street from mine at Las Lomas
Subdivision for our six oclock meeting. Address is
106 Sendero Arbolado. I will send out directions
and the gate code in a later email blast. The
Wimberley elves will host a Christmas potluck
assisted by the Kyle and Drippings Springs elves
that will provide desserts. All involved need to
contact Tonda Frady, please.

Program Summary: Current members will make lap

quilts and small pillows to present as gifts to ladies at the
Wimberley Life Care home. Singing of Christmas carols
will follow.
Meeting Focus: Fellowship with chapter members and
Wimberley Life Care residents.
Project: Lap quilts and small pillows will be distributed
to residents. Donation raffle of special basket provided
by Sandra Morales, with proceeds going to the Eula Lee
Carter Memorial Fund.

And, some other elves, at another time, will deliver

lap quilts and bolsters to our own reserve members
who cant attend meetings.

Inspiration: Robin Estepp

Meal: Holiday Potluck, Wimberley ladies
Desserts: Kyle and Dripping Springs Members
Contact Tonda about desserts.

I hope all members will participate in at least one

phase of our Almost Progressive Party. You
know Santa Sandra has many elves for many
projects, so choose how you will help and let me
know.

Music: Holiday songs

Notes: Tri-Chapter Social will be in New Braunfels in
January.

Here are the details for the Tri-Chapter

Social. The date will be January 23, 2016
from 11:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. The location
will be the New Braunfels Church of Christ,
1665 Business Loop 35 South (Elliot Knox
Blvd) New Braunfels, TX 78130.

Election of new chapter officers in February.

Nominations for 2016-18 Officers Needed

If you are interested in serving as an officer for

the 2016-2018 biennium, please contact one of
the Nominating Committee members: Cheryl
Blake, Barbara Pevoto or Tonda Frady.
Remember that someone saw potential in you
when they invited you to membership. All of your
sisters are ready and willing to help you succeed
in any position you wish to accept. Dont be shy
about volunteering to serve your sisters.
December Birthdays
Kathy C. 2nd

World Fellowship Fund netted

$296.00 at the November Auction.
Yeah!!

Janet S. 4th
Lisa J. 14th
Betty Brooks 22nd
Sandra M. 30th
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Nu Chapter initiated FIVE new

members 11/17/15! TSO President
Marilyn Gregory helped with the
initiation in Nu Chapter's
president, Sandra Morales' stead.
Sandra's husband Wes suffered a
stroke earlier in the week.

Book Review by Mary Nabers

The Train to Crystal City
By Jan Jarboe Russell
Today we debate allowing immigration of
refugees from Syria because of terrorist
activities and the difficulty of screening
refugees. This fear of potential enemies within
the United States is the subject of Jan Jarboe
Russells book, The Train to Crystal City. It is
about the secret internment camp at Crystal
City, right here in Texas, that most of us never
knew existed.

The new members are Janis Brown, Delores Cruz,

Bonnie Flammang, Carol Plassman, and Debra
Zupancic. Welcome to our family, Sisters.

As our participation in World War II became

imminent in 1939, well before Pearl Harbor,
President Roosevelt created the Special War
Problems Committee to decide what to do with
Japanese, Germans, and Italians who had
emigrated to the U.S. The FBI began
investigating legal immigrants who had
potential allegiance to their native countries
(membership in radical groups), who had
technical knowledge that could be affect the
war (engineers and photographers), or who
were leaders in their communities.
In 1941, then, immediately following Pearl
Harbor, the government arrested thousands of
men, who were taken to internment camps,
using a law passed in 1798 about aliens in
wartime. Their families were later arrested and
sent to different camps. These were not the

TSO President Marilyn Gregory speaking to Nu Chapter.

relocation camps that we have known about;

these camps were prisons. The men arrested
were not naturalized citizens (Japanese were
not allowed to gain citizenship until 1952!)
Therefore, they could be traded for Americans
caught in Japan, Germany, or Italy when the
war started, private individuals, and prisoners
of war.

Just before Germany was defeated, Ingrids

family was repatriated. With little news of the
war allowed in camp, they were totally
surprised by the devastation and lack of
necessities. Even worse, Sumis family was
sent to Japan after the surrender, after the
Bomb was dropped. Until they landed, they
had been sure that Japan had won the war.
The children of both families worked for the US
forces as interpreters and started saving
money to return to the US.

Crystal City, Texas, was chosen for the main

camp so that families could be reunited. Most
of the men interned agreed that they would be
repatriated to their home countries in order to
have their families together. It mattered not
that some had married American women and
that their children were American citizens; the
entire family would be repatriated.

Jan Russell interviewed 17 survivors of the

Crystal City camp and researched documents
and files and books of all kinds. Thirty-five
pages of notes complete the book, as well as a
thorough index.

Jan Russell follows two girls in particular, Sumi

and Ingrid, typical American teens who were
totally frustrated by their restricted life in the
camp, in spite of the efforts of the camp
director. Joseph ORourke did his best to
befriend the children of the camp and provide
as normal a life as possible. They could attend
a Japanese school, a German school, or the
Federal, American, school. The students
created sports teams and formed Boy and Girl
Scout troops. There was the great Prom
controversy, with many students defying their
parents and going to the dance, before parents
broke it up. The men of the camp built a huge
swimming pool, which helped the internees
survive the 110 degree Texas heat, something
they had never experienced before. ORourke
also allowed the Japanese women to create a
tofu factory (supplying Mexican molinas and
pestles to crush the soybeans), and the
German men had a beer garden. The camp
was very self-sufficient; the people were given
allowances and had the chance to earn camp
money to buy goods at the camp store. It was
not a bad existence. But it was a prison.

Alan Taniguchi, an internee who became a UT

professor of architecture, erected a monument
at the camp with funds donated by other
internees. It reads World War II Concentration
Camp. Crystal City was certainly not the
concentration camp Holocaust victims
endured; ORourke did everything possible to
make it a normal situation for young people.
But armed guards patrolled the barbed wire on
horseback.
I have mixed emotions. I understand the fear
of foreigners in wartime. I cannot understand
how American citizens, the children, could be
deported, though I dont see how they could be
left behind. The camp was a secret from the
American public, and six exchanges were
made, saving thousands of American lives
(80% of American POWs in Japan died.) FDR
believed the camp and exchanges were
necessary; Eleanor did what she could to make
the internment humane.
Jan Russell spoke at the Blanco Library on
November 19, holding her audience captivated
for more than an hour. She said that when she
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told Ingrid that she had been traded for a

Jewish girl released from Bergen-Belsen,
Ingrid found an answer to a question that had
haunted her. She said, This changes
everything. It means our familys sacrifice was
worth something.

Our last big trip was an adventure to explore

some states we had never visited. It was also
an adventure of a different kind from our
previous travels because we didnt have much
of a set schedule and we didnt have any
friends or family to visit along the way. We
were totally on our own, with no real schedule,
only minimal plans, and possibly a little too
much opportunity for spontaneity for two Type
A planners and their dog. Turns out we can
be spontaneous, too. We had a wonderful 23
day trip through ten states including Texas,
Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and
Nebraska.
Highlights of our trip include the town of
Winterset in Madison County, Iowa, home of
the famous Bridges of Madison County and the
birthplace of John Wayne, a guided tour of the
spectacular Iowa State Capitol building, a visit
to the National Historic Site and Presidential
Library of Herbert Hoover where we learned a
lot about his Quaker upbringing, his career as
a mining engineer, and his humanitarian efforts
during World War I. In Wisconsin we visited
Leinenkugel Brewing (during their Octoberfest
weekend) in Chippewa Falls and the beautiful
Amnicon Falls State Park. Minnesotas
highlights were Enger Park and climbing the 80
foot fire tower in the city of Duluth on the
southwest tip of Lake Superior, Itasca State
Park, site of the headwaters of the Mississippi
River and another fire tower to climb, this one
100 feet! We also spent an interesting
afternoon in Wabasha at the National Eagle
Center.

The Great Plains Trip by Susan Pulis

This year has been a big travel year for our
family. My husband Steve and I, along with
our dog Biscuit, planned three big trips in our
motor home for 2015, and we managed to fit all
three in for a total of 67 days on the road. Add
in another eight days at Davis Mountain State
Park near Fort Davis, TX, in March, and the RV
has been our home for more than a fifth of this
year.
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Pierre, and a visit to The Little Town on the

Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilders home in De
Smet.

Our northernmost destination was the town of

Minot, North Dakota, and we camped at the
Fam Camp on the Air Force base there. We
also toured the 1930s art deco style state
capitol building in Bismarck and drove through
the Theodore Roosevelt National Park in
Medora. And our final, yet-unvisited state was
South Dakota with our ultimate destination

On our way toward home we made stops at a

few more state capitols in Lincoln, Nebraska,
Topeka, Kansas, and Oklahoma City, and
spent our last night at another Fam Camp on
Tinker AFB before arriving safely back at home
on Saturday, October 3rd. We were busy
driving and sightseeing almost every day, and
loving it!

of Mount Rushmore National Monument. Also

in South Dakota, we saw and experienced the
Crazy Horse Memorial, Custer State Park,
Painted Canyon and Badlands National Park,
Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, a tour
of the South Dakota State Capitol building in
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Several of our members have voiced the desire

for a COOKS CORNER in the news letter.
Here is our first offering from our November
meeting.
GOOEY BUTTER CAKE
Cake:
1 18 ounce yellow cake mix
1 egg
8 T. butter, melted

When you
see this magazine in your mailbox find a
good spot to sit down and enjoy it! It truly
has some inspiring articles inside.

Filling:
1 8oz cream cheese
2 eggs
1 t. vanilla
8 T. butter, melted
1 16oz box powder sugar

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Directions:
Preheat oven 350* F.
Combine cake mix, egg, and butter. Mix well
with electric mixer. Pat mixture into bottom of
lightly greased 13X9 pan.
In large bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth.
Add eggs, vanilla, and butter. Beat together.
Add powder sugar and mix well. Spread over
cake batter and bake 40-50 minutes. Make
sure not to over bake, as center should be
gooey.
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someone said probably Barbara Pevoto?

Source for forms and answers:

http://www.dkgtexas.org
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www.nuchaptertxdkg.weebly.com
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