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Jul/Aug 2025 | Vol. 82 No. 4

2024-2026 ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD

International President Regional Directors Members-at-large
Dr. Beverly Hall-Maughan, Tennessee Europe 2024-2026
Marie-Antionette Huber de Wolf, Dr. Lisa Cooper Wilkins, California
First Vice President The Netherlands
Candace (Candi) Martin, Arkansas 2024-2028
Northeast Dr. Donna Niday, Iowa
Second Vice President Eileen Little, Pennsylvania
Carol Herzog, Indiana Area Representatives
Northwest
Executive Director Canada
Lucinda Hart, MBA, CAE Lisa Olson, North Dakota Dr. Sharlene McGowan,
Southeast Saskatchewan
Parliamentarian
Dr. Helen Popovich, PRP, Florida Nancy Davis, Tennessee Latin America
Southwest Vianney Campos, Baja California
Immediate Past President Belinda Clift, Oklahoma
Dr. Debbie LeBlanc, Illinois

NEWS Editor | Bailey Bauer

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allowing women to join directly through International No one should feel ignored when they reach out to DKG;
Headquarters. Imagine a streamlined process where they should feel excited, valued, and seen. As we enter
prospective members could join directly, eliminating DKG’s second century, let us do more than celebrate
the wait for a chapter contact who may or may not the past—let us actively shape the future. Let us build
reach out. Once a new member joins, they could be a more inclusive, flexible, and responsive organization
matched with a local chapter, a virtual group, or even that is ready for the educators of today and tomorrow.

a special interest community that fits their needs, Deeds of others, their courage, vision, and
lifestyle, location, professional role, or preferred unwavering commitment, now we’re reaping. As we
method of engagement, whether in-person, hybrid, build #SecondCenturyDKG together, let us continue to
or virtual. This is not about replacing local chapter stand for others, just as others stood for us: united in
connections; it is about ensuring we never miss a purpose and driven by passion. When we sing, we for
chance to build one. Every chapter, state, and member others stand, we honor this legacy, and commit to its
must recognize that we are part of something bigger continuation by adapting to the needs of those who

than ourselves. The invitation to join DKG should come will carry DKG into the future. By reimagining how we
from all of us, together, offering a shared vision of welcome and support new members, we ensure that
what it means to be a woman educator committed the deeds we plant today will be reaped with pride
to excellence. This approach would make DKG more tomorrow.
accessible and flexible, which is exactly what younger
educators need.
Of course, this shift would mean reimagining the
role of the chapter from gatekeepers to welcoming
hosts and mentors. It would also entail cleaning up our

systems to ensure every inquiry gets a warm response.

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