Change can be frightening at times, but change is often the chariot of wonderful new experiences. I am honored and excited to join the DKG Headquarters Staff as Membership Services Administrator! As my husband and I make the transition to Austin, we face many changes - a time which in any other circumstance might lend us only stress and anxiety. However, I have encountered throughout the Austin area, both here at Headquarters and throughout the city, so very many caring and thoughtful people.
Likewise, I am also getting to know many of you who are members of The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International. So many of you have welcomed me with warm hugs and encouraging words at meetings throughout the summer. It seems that every time I answer the phone, one of you is welcoming me with warm offers of support. Your emails have been filled with uplifting greetings and new ideas. You are all such enthusiastic and creative women. How inspiring you are!
August passed quickly with the move to Austin, the transition as I joined Headquarters staff members already hard at work on many end of summer projects, and a meeting of the Educational Excellence Committee. The members of the committee have so many exciting projects and goals to share - I am amazed and awed by their energy and exuberance. I hope you all will follow their work as they share about it in the DKG News, on the International Web site and through their blogs on the Social Network.
Speaking of the Social Network - have you joined yet? If not, I do hope you consider joining with the over 1000 DKG members who stay connected with each other through the Network.
I hope to have a chance to meet each of you somewhere along the way; but if I do not see you before July of 2012, then I hope to meet you when we are both in New York City for the International Convention. I look forward to serving you along the way and seeing you there.
