Vol 16 No 7. March 1996

1995-1996 CALENDAR

March 13- Dinner will be at 5:30 at the Water Club Grill, Inc. At 7:00, the Personal Growth Committee will sponsor a "Psychic Connection" evening. It is written in the stars, so please try to attend. Sponsors are: Barb Broadley, Carol Holland, Eve Shuput, Marie Canzoneri, Debbie Ervin, and Marcia Wiss-Scarr.

April 19-21- State Convention in Battle Creek at the Stouffer Renaissance Hotel. Registration forms for the convention and hotel are in Winter ’95 Wolverine. Register before March 16 and save $10.00. If you have not made it to a State Convention, make this your year.

May 8- Birthday Dinner will be held at Kiernan’s in Dearborn. Details about cost and choices of the meals, times of dinner, installation of new officers and new member initiation will be sent out by the Birthday Dinner Committee since there will be no April newsletter. This is our big event, so mark this date on your calendar. Sponsors are: Candy Vaphiadis, Mary Foster, and Mary Clark.

Colleen Retherford, our new Music Chairman, is getting prepared for the March meeting. She has tapes of several Delta Kappa Gamma songs played in a key we all can sing.

Judy Handley, one of our new prospective members, won the door prize of a Delta Kappa Gamma notepad at the February meeting. Who will win next month’s valuable prize? Only the psychic knows!

June Chartrand has not left Gamma Alpha as reported in last month’s minutes. There has been a computer mix-up with the Arizona chapter she attends and she will remain active with our chapter. She may even be able to make an make an appearance at the Birthday Dinner.

Our personal travel consultant, Marie Canzoneri, is ready to book a cruise for your upcoming holidays.

All Aboard Travel Co.

17177 N. Laurel Park Drive

Livonia, MI 48152

Bus. (313) 591-3322

Fax. (313) 591-3327

NASA’s QUEST PROJECT

http://naic.nasa.gov/naic/guide/templates/quest.html
A one stop shop for K-12 teachers. Find links to teacher resources on Grants and Other People’s Money, Teaching and Learning With the Web, International Schools Online, and Online Resources for Educators.

AIMS

http://204.161.33.100/
The Activities Integrating Math and Science site features a searchable database of hands-on activities integrating math and science in grades K-9. At this site you will find brainteasing puzzles ( a new one is added each month), plus ways to make math more human by incorporating history into math lessons.

EXPLORER

http://server2.greatlakes.k12.mi.us/
The Explorer database consists of multimedia resources for active learning in the areas of math and natural science. It’s a treasure trove of lesson plans for innovative and fun learning experiences.

Remember Gamma Alpha Bulletin is now on-line. You can visit our web site at http://www.rust.net/~ismart. If you have information you feel other women in education may be interested in, please let me know. Retirees should also let me know what’s going as well. Deadline for articles for the May Bulletin is April 24. Send your copy to Jackie Smart

If you have any information that you would like to see in the bulletin, let me know - email us!

Jackie Smart

March

13 Esther Loskowske
18 Lorna Durand

April

3 Marcia Wiss-Scarr
8 Evelyn Shuput
18 Celestine Sanders
22 Shirley Wahlstrom

President:

Alice Duke

First Vice President:

Grace Morgan

Second Vice President:

Susie Miller

Recording Secretary:

Mary Foster

Corresponding Secretary:

Mary Clark

Treasurer:

Grace Morgan

Parliamentarian:

Esther Loskowske

Past President:

Marie Canzoneri