Background
Brant, Dorris Ellen Stapleton was born on January 21, 1933 in Southard, Missouri, United States. Daughter of John Ross Stapleton and Sylvia Cleo Boren.
Brant, Dorris Ellen Stapleton was born on January 21, 1933 in Southard, Missouri, United States. Daughter of John Ross Stapleton and Sylvia Cleo Boren.
Bachelor, University of Wichita, Wichita, Kansas, 1954. Master of Science, University of Wichita, Wichita, Kansas, 1956.
Teaching fellow Wichita University, Wichita, Kansas, 1954—1955. Bacteriologist Hyde Park (Borden) Dairy, 1955—1956. Assistant bacteriologist Wichita / Sedgwick Company Department of Public Health, 1956—1959.
Educator Unified School District 382, Pratt, 1966—1996. Adjunct professor music St. Mary of Plains College, Dodge City, 1987—1989. State board Kansas ORFF Association, Kansas, 1995—2000.
Executive board Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, Kansas, 1991—1993.
International chairman of travel study committee Delta Kappa Gamma Society, Kansas, 1998—2000, nominating committee, since 2002, president Kansas, 1991—1993. Community / foods leader Kansas Farm Bureau Youth Seminar, Manhattan, 1966—1981. Senior counselor Pratt County 4-H Company, 1960—1990.
President Pratt Regional Medical Center Auxiliary, 2000—2004. State president Delta Kappa Gamma Society. Central committee member Republican Party, Pratt, Kansas, 1960—1990, 1998—2008.
Member of National Association of Parliamentarians, Pratt Music Club (president 1960—2002), American Association of University Women (vice-president 1990—2002), American Association of University Women 1960—2008, (president since 2008), Phi Delta Kappa.
Married James Chesney Brant, September 1, 1953. Children: Solveig, Sonja Brant Betzen.