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DKG Practice/Program

Hours Spent Helping

The next category was very impressive. It was to demonstrate the hours spent helping. Every Lego
block represented 10 hours of help. This category was divided into mentoring, physical classroom help,
volunteer work, and other.
Members clocked 5,177 hours in helping, guiding, coaching, and supporting SEE women. Such
mentoring was represented by 518 Lego blocks.
The next category was physical classroom help. I thought this should be separated by actual physical
labor, such as moving furniture, assembling bulletin boards, or laminating items. Oklahoma DKG women
clocked 628 hours toward these endeavors.
Volunteer work was the next category. The helpers were very flexible; they might start the day coaching
little ones on their letter sounds or organizing papers—depending on the needs of the teacher. Women in
Beta Beta were volunteering as library aides for a new media specialist. Members from Beta Lambda
volunteered, as reported by one helper, “anywhere they needed me.”
The final category of “other” included such help as working in an after-school program or assisting
a teacher in implementing the new reading series. I also included here the hours of Alpha Iota helping to
guide a student teacher.

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