STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI RESEARCH CENTER-ST. LOUIS
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS
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s0784 Delta Kappa Gamma Addenda
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Grace Weber and Jean Weinstock, as presidents of Pi Chapter, Delta Kappa Gamma, donated the bulk of this collection. Dr. Kathleen Kinderfather of Zeta Chapter added records of the organization's Coordinating Council, the Group Action Council, and additional copies of St. Louis area yearbooks in 2008.
The Delta Kappa Gamma Society is a professional honorary society of women educators. The society was founded in Texas in 1929; today there are chapters in all 50 states, Canada and 13 other nations in Europe and Central America. Membership is by invitation and is extended to those women educators whose distinguished contributions and achievements in the field of education and to their communities are identified as outstanding. The first Missouri chapter was organized in 1933; Zeta Chapter, the first in St. Louis, was also formed in the 1930s. Members of Zeta established Pi Chapter in May 1947; this chapter in turn sponsored further expansion with the formation of Sigma, Psi and Alpha Nu chapters.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
The collection includes Pi Chapter meeting minutes, financial reports, membership reports and photographs, regional yearbooks, and informational materials prepared by the national organization. The photographs are included in the Western Historical Manuscript Collection photo database.
SERIES DESCRIPTION
Series 1: Administrative records of Pi Chapter including histories, bylaws, minutes, treasurer's reports; membership reports, and other. There are also a few papers for the St. Louis Coordinating Council of DKG and the Group Action Council of St. Louis, a consortium of women's organizations with which DKG chapters were affiliated.
Series 2: Yearbooks for local chapters 1948 - 2005, Pi Chapter newsletters, event booklets, contents of a 1972 scrapbook, handbooks and materials provided by the national organizations.
Series 3: Audio and video recordings from the national office
Series 4: Photographs from two orientation slide shows and the 1972 event scrapbook
FOLDER LISTING
BOX 1 (062877)
Series 1 Administrative Records, 1947 - 2006
BOX 2 (062878)
Series 2: Yearbooks and Pamphlets, 1948-2005
BOX 3 (080704)
Series 3:Audio & Video Recordings
V - 765.1 "Orientation to the Society" - 19 minute VHS presentation
T - 765.1 Audio cassette - "Accompaniments for Delta Kappa Gamma; Song Book IV"
T - 765.2 Audio cassette - "Women Born to Manage" - address by Dr. Marilyn Harris
Series 4: Photographs
OVERSIZE: Pi chapter of Missouri grant, May 20, 1947
INDEX
Bastian, Mamie Sue, f. 45
Blanton, Annie Webb, f.45
Cole, Ruby, f. 45
Grizzard, Mabel, f. 45
Hiss, Anna, f. 45
King, Ray Holden, f. 45
King, Sue, f. 45
Koch, Helen Lois, f. 45
Lomax, Ruby Terrill, f. 45
Martin, Cora Merriman, f. 45
Odom, Lalla McClatchy, f. 45
Williams, Lela Lee, f. 45
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