HISTORY

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

Upsilon State Past Presidents

1. Nina M. Goltry (1939-40)	18. Mary Speckhart (1975-77)
2. Florence Prehm (1940-42)	19. Fern Thompson (1977-79)
3. Helen Fischer (1942-43)	20. Pat Montgomery (1979-81)
4. Ruth Jackson (1943-46)	21. Betty Cunningham (1981-83)
5. Mabel F. McKee (1946-50)	22. Odelia Schrunk (1983-85)
6. Christine P. McCormick (1950-53)	23. Barbara Van Every (1985-87)
7. Estella Williamson (1953-55)	24. Dr. Conning Hoag (1987-89)
8. Marian Speake (1955-57)	25. Jan Sowers (1989-91)
9. Nell White (1957-59)	26. Janet Hayes (1991-93)
10. Ruth Wyatt (1959-61)	27. Victoria Holder (1993-95)
11. Neva Barnhart (1961-63)	28. Dr. Carolyn Rants (1995-97)
12. Lillian Holmes (1963-65)	29. Constance Besco (1997-99)
13. Margaret Smiley Hill (1965-67)	30. Carol Iverson (1999-2001)
14. Irene Whelan (1967-69)	31. Ruth Fellers (2001-03)
15. Viola Karstens (1969-71)	32. Audry Terpstra (2003-05)
16. Delight Killinger (1971-73)	33. Peggy Rupe (2005-07)
17. Betty Piercy (1973-75)	34. Dena Higginbotham (2007-09)

Past Upsilon State Achievement Award Recipients

1988 Betty Cunningham	1996 Odelia Schrunk	2004 Ruth Fellers
1989 Grace Fern	1997 Marge Perry	2005 Marian Ponder
1990 Delight Killinger	1998 Dr. Carolyn Rants	2006 Audry Terpstra
1991 Barbara Van Every	1999 Vicki Holder	2007 Vera Beebe
1992 Mary Speckhart	2000 Jan Sowers	2008 Judith Olson
1993 Fern Thompson	2001 Connie Besco	2009 Peggy Rupe
1994 Mary Lou Kirk	2002 Janet Hayes	2010 Lorraine Sewick
1995 Dr. Connie Hoag	2003 Carol Iverson

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