Upsilon State Iowa The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International
HISTORY OF UPSILON STATE
Upsilon State (Iowa) Organization of Delta Kappa Gamma Society
International
was organized May 16, 1936, in Des Moines, Iowa. At that time,
the
founders were serving in the following capacities:
Mrs. Nina H. Brown, former Oxford University student,
teacher at
Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa.
Miss Lucile Douglass, superintendent of Story County
Schools, who
died only a year after Upsilon was founded.
Mrs. Nina M. Goltry, our first state president; was
also a
teacher
at Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa.
Miss May E. Holmes, serving as supervisor of
elemetnary
grades in
the Davenport school system.
Miss Fay L. Kirtland, serving as a member of Drake
University faculty
in Des Moines, Iowa
Dr. Tacie M. Knease, assistant professor of Romance
languages at
the University of Iowa
Mrs. Margaret I. Mann, county superintendent of
O'Brien
County Schools.
Mrs. Christine Petersen McCormick, serving as
Superintendent of
Plymouth County, Iowa Schools
Miss Jessie M. Parker, staff member of Department of
Public Instruction;
elected State Superintendent of Instruction in 1938.
Miss Florence B. Prehm, director of teacher education
at
the Creston
Junior College.
Miss Isabel J. Robinson, state supervisor of nursery
schools and
parent education in the Emergency Education Program of the depression
years.
Dr. Agnes M. Samuelson, who went to Kansas City to be
initiated
into the national organization and began the process of establishing an
Upsilon State Chapter in 1936. She was a State Superintendent os
Schools in Iowa.
Upsilon State, Delta Kappa Gamma Society International.
Reprinted from President's File information, April 1999.
Carol Iverson