Delta Gamma Foundation Award Winners

2018 CONVENTION

Daniel Arroyo-Rodríguez is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Colorado College. He specializes in the study of Spanish Contemporary Literature and Culture, with a focus on the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). His research interests are 19th- 20th- 21st-century Spanish peninsular literature and culture; literary theory; war memory, literature, and film; Spanish peripheral nationalisms; literature and exile; and avant-garde literature. He has written numerous articles and book chapters, and presented at conferences about his varied research interests. Dr. Arroyo-Rodríguez is the current recipient of Colorado College’s Ray O. Werner Award for Exemplary Teaching in the Liberal Arts, which

has allowed him to travel to California, Spain, and Israel, where he continues research in Sephardic literature and in Catalonian language, literature, and culture. In this field, he published the book Narrativas guerrilleras: El maquis en la cultura española contemporánea (Biblioteca Nueva 2014).

A native of Spain, Dr. Arroyo-Rodríguez earned his B.A. in English philology in 2000 from the Universidad de Sevilla and his Ph.D. in Spanish literature in 2010 from the University of Michigan, joining the Colorado College faculty that same year. He has served on numerous search committees, including for the Provost. A member of the Faculty Executive Committee, he chairs the Governance Committee; Dr. Arroyo-Rodríguez has also chaired the First Year Experience Committee for the College. He is passionate about teaching abroad and has developed programs in Spain, Morocco, Israel and Argentina.

Dr. Arroyo-Rodríguez is married to Ella Freyman Arroyo; they have two children: Sasha (age 8) and Adrian (age 4).

The Faculty Award recognizes faculty who exemplify excellence in teaching undergraduate students.

Nominated by Beta Delta-Colorado College

Lauren Rhodes, Delta Zeta-Memphis

Alpha Eta-WhitmanBeta Delta-Colorado CollegeBeta Epsilon-AmericanBeta Lambda-GettysburgDelta Chi-UC Davis

Zeta Upsilon-FurmanZeta Chi-DelawareEta Pi-DePaulEta Sigma-Charleston

Nominating Chapters

Winner – Dr. Daniel Arroyo-Rodríguez

Faculty Award sponsored by Eta Xi-Texas, Tyler in honor of chapter adviser, Lauren Rhodes

“ The best teacher is the one who inspires students to become lifelong learners.”

Alumnae Group Applicants

AtlantaCharlotte AreaGreater Kansas CityNewport South CoastSan AntonioSarasotaSouth BayWichitaWilmington, NC

The H.K. Stuart Spirit of Service Award is reserved for collegiate chapters and alumnae groups that exhibit the dedication and service exemplified in the life of Helen (H.K.) Davis Stuart, Kappa-Nebraska. This award was endowed by H.K.’s daughter Catherine Stuart Schmoker and her husband Richard.

Pictured: Catherine Stuart Schmoker and her mother, Helen (H.K.) Davis Stuart.

Collegiate Chapter Applicants

Kappa-NebraskaMu-MissouriNu-IdahoPi-MontanaRho-SyracuseSigma-NorthwesternPhi-ColoradoAlpha Theta-North DakotaAlpha Kappa-WashburnAlpha Phi-British ColumbiaBeta Gamma-UtahBeta Epsilon-AmericanBeta Eta-TexasBeta Xi-Michigan StateBeta Chi-DenverBeta Psi-AlabamaGamma Alpha-TennesseeGamma Beta-Tulsa

Gamma Zeta-Louisiana StateGamma Iota-DePauw Gamma Phi-Arizona StateGamma Upsilon-Wichita StateDelta Beta-KentuckyDelta Iota-GeorgiaDelta Omicron-Morehead State Epsilon Delta-Washington and JeffersonEpsilon Mu-William and MaryEpsilon Psi-RutgersZeta Delta-RochesterZeta Eta-Texas StateZeta Lambda-UC RiversideZeta Sigma-Northern KentuckyZeta Upsilon-FurmanEta Gamma-Texas A&MEta Delta-North FloridaEta Theta-St. LouisEta Pi-DePaulEta Sigma-Charleston

H.K. Stuart Spirit of Service Award

Winners

Gamma Zeta-Louisiana State Sarasota alumnae chapter

This award is sponsored by the Theta chapter to honor beloved Theta alumna Patricia Peterson Danielson, in appreciation of her deep commitment to and leadership within the Theta chapter, Delta Gamma, Indiana University and her community. The award honors a Delta Gamma collegian that has made and continues to make a significant leadership contribution to her campus, community, church, state, nation or world in an area of philanthropy or philanthropic service.

Patty and her husband, Danny

Anna Nemeth lives her philosophy through her leadership on campus and beyond. She has held two Beta Xi chapter positions - director of alumnae relations and director of house management.

As the External Relations Account Manager for Spartans Rebuilding Michigan, she communicates with nonprofit organizations, coordinates volunteer opportunities for members, and tailors volunteer opportunities to Mid-Michigan nonprofit organizations. She also serves as a Pay It Forward Toward Bus Leader where she volunteers with a nonprofit and housing for cities in six different states throughout the country. The service varies between each city and has included packaging sweet potatoes to be distributed to the needy, cleaning up a Boys and Girls Club, interacting with nursing home residents, working on a non-profit farm, and painting a homeless shelter.

Closer to home, she aids elementary school students with life skills, coping mechanisms, emotional support and positive behavior; volunteers at Edgewood Assisted Living Center and at the Penrickton School for the Blind.

This summer, she will be a policy intern with the nonprofit organization, Voice For Adoption (VFA), which advocates for achieving better outcomes for the 118,000 children in U.S. foster care who are waiting to be adopted and the families who adopt children and youth from foster care.

After college, Anna hopes to work at a nonprofit and complete a Masters of Social Work and Juris Doctor degrees to become a child advocate.

Nominated by Katie Kalass, Beta Xi-Michigan StateWinner – Anna Nemeth, Beta Xi-Michigan State

Theta Chapter of Delta Gamma Collegiate Leadership Award honoring Patricia Peterson Danielson

“ You can’ t change the world but, you can change your piece of it.”

This award is sponsored by James and Helen Catherine (H.K.) Davis Stuart, Kappa-Nebraska to recognize their daughter’s commitment to Delta Gamma, her alma mater, her community and her church. The award honors a Delta Gamma alumna who has made, and continues to make, a significant leadership contribution to her community, church, state, nation or world in an area of philanthropic service.

This is a premise of CanCare, Inc., an organization where Kay Royal has volunteered for twenty-five years. As a three-time survivor of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Kay is matched with patients newly diagnosed with this type of cancer so that she can offer the kind of support only those who have been there can give. Rewarded by her work with CanCare in Houston, Texas, Kay was instrumental in organizing a new Chapter of CanCare in Atlanta in 2004 after her family moved to that city. She worked with the pastor at her church to form the Atlanta Chapter of CanCare. Volunteers are cancer survivors or caregivers of loved ones with cancer who support those in treatment when they most need it. Today, Atlanta Chapter of CanCare has grown to include over 100 volunteers in seventeen churches in North Atlanta. In 2018, Kay helped organize a new chapter of CanCare in Charleston, S. C. and is currently helping develop a model for growth of this organization in cities across the United States.

Kay is a graduate of the University of Tulsa where she was a member of Gamma Beta Chapter of Delta Gamma. She earned her Master’s Degree in Maternal-Child Nursing and her certification as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner at UTMB in Galveston, Texas. After working as a nurse and NP for over twenty-five years, Kay has retired and devotes her spare time to CanCare. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia and is a member of the Atlanta Alumnae Chapter of Delta Gamma where she co-leads the Lunch Bunch.

Nominated by Lauren Rose Pointer, Eta Epsilon-VanderbiltWinner – Kay Richardson Royal, Gamma Beta-Tulsa

H.K Stuart and Kit Schmoker

Catherine Stuart Schmoker Principled Leadership Award

“ Cancer can be hard, but it doesn’ t have to be lonely.”

In every city we hold Convention, we try to leave a little of ourselves behind, in the “Do Good” Tradition. This award is sponsored by the Mildred Moyer Baynard Memorial Award Fund.

In 1952, the Foundation for Blind Children (FBC) was founded with the support and guidance from the Delta Gamma Phoenix alumnae chapter. The rich history of Delta Gamma involvement with the school dates back to the beginning where official records and meeting minutes reflect that our alumnae paid the incorporation fees establishing FBC and committing to a lifetime of support and service. Foundation for Blind Children has provided comfort, support, technology and instruction to blind and visually impaired students and their families for over 65 years. The care and education offered by FBC is unmatched. Children and their families are given the tools they need to become independent, confident and successful adults.

Our local collegians at Gamma Phi-Arizona State and our Phoenix alumnae chapter live our mission by donating service hours and support to Foundation for Blind Children.

It was also announced at Convention that Foundation for Blind Children has been named as our fifth official Delta Gamma school for children with visual impairments.

Mildred Moyer Baynard Award for Excellence in the Field of Blindness

Winner – Foundation for Blind Children, Phoenix

Steve Pawlowski (left), Director of Communications and Development, and

Marc Ashton (right), CEO of FBC