Beta Eta Deuteron - Revision history

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History at 05:22, 16 August 2018

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History: /* Highlights of 2020s: */

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‎Highlights of 2020s:

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History at 04:09, 8 August 2017

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History at 04:46, 6 March 2017

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Knylund at 16:29, 14 July 2016

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Ktowers: /* The Early Years (From The History of Kappa Kappa Gamma 1870–1976) */

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‎The Early Years (From The History of Kappa Kappa Gamma 1870–1976)

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 |Image= [[File:Beta_Eta_Deuteron.jpg|200px]]
 |Founded= {{start date and years ago|1892|06|10}}
-|College= [http://www.stanford.edu/ Stanford University] formerly The Leland Stanford Junior University
+|College= [https://www.stanford.edu/ Stanford University] formerly The Leland Stanford Junior University
 |Location= Stanford, CA
-|Homepage= [http://chapters.kappakappagamma.org/betaeta/ Beta Eta Deuteron Homepage]
+|Homepage= [https://stanford.kappa.org Beta Eta Deuteron Homepage]
-|Media= [http://wiki.kappakappagamma.org/index.php?title=Category:Beta_Eta_Deuteron Media related to Beta Eta Deuteron Chapter]
+|Media= [https://wiki.kkg.org/index.php?title=Category:Beta_Eta_Deuteron Media related to Beta Eta Deuteron Chapter]
 }}

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-==Highlights of 2018:==
+'''==Highlights of 2018:=='''
 was another great year for the Beta Eta Deuteron chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma! Our members continue to succeed in different ways on campus and in the world – they never fail to amaze us. Our strong internal culture and bond is accented by Kappa members’ extensive involvement in the larger Stanford atmosphere. We are proud to house members involved across campus, specifically on national championship-winning sports teams, presidents of business organizations, teaching assistants for classes, and more. One of our members was even named a Rhodes Scholar, and is currently studying abroad in Oxford, England! Our chapter at Stanford continued to work on various initiatives, namely supporting women’s empowerment and diversity & inclusion. We are pleased to note that due to our emphasis on diversity & inclusion, headquarters has made it a formal chapter council position that will now be implemented in all chapters across the nation. Léa Koob, our president this year, helped draft the proposal for this change at the fraternity’s National Convention in June. We are so excited for future members in this role as Diversity & Inclusion (D & I) chairman to have more support and guidance from fraternity headquarters. This year, we held four chapter meetings focusing on these important topics. Our D & I committee focused on issues like the history of exclusion in Greek Life and implicit bias. Through these workshops, we strive to better ourselves as a chapter, making sure all members, and all future members, will be comfortable in our chapter. We emphasized implicit bias training early in the year, in order to have this be a continuing discussion, not just something we focus on during recruitment. On October 29th of this year, one of our members, Tatie Balabanis, led the chapter through an activity of a class of which she is a teaching assistant (Psychology 103 – Intergroup Communication). In this activity, called an “identity walk,” we focused on exploring the different identities that members of our chapter value and had an open discussion about what some of these various identities mean to members of our chapter. Overall, it was a very successful year of action and conversation surrounding D & I within our chapter and within the broader community at Stanford. We are excited to continue to push these inclusivity efforts and strive for equity in our chapter and our university.
 Our chapter feels just as good about our efforts in furthering our women’s empowerment initiatives as well. This is at the center of Kappa’s core values, and we pride ourselves on being a group of capable, passionate, and confident women. We aim to make a positive impact in the world, maintaining a constant focus on women’s empowerment. We do this through various initiatives internally, such as recognition programs at chapter meetings. Our chapter implemented programs such as KKGenius and Support a Sister to reward our members for their excellence inside and outside of the classroom. During the week, members are encouraged to nominate fellow sisters for their accomplishments, be it academic, athletic, or simply for being a strong and supportive sister. Members who are nominated are acknowledged and awarded during chapter meetings that week. Our chapter aims to create a cohesive and friendly environment within Kappa that allows all of our sisters to feel comfortable, and hopefully build on one another’s strengths, inspiring individual achievements in all areas of our members’ lives. Additionally, as a chapter we have tried to focus more of our philanthropic endeavors to help support our goal of empowering women in the broader community, we have seen our chapter used as an incredible platform for our members to accomplish positive change and have their voices heard in the community on campus. Our fraternity has tried to bring together our national philanthropy, Reading is Key, and our passion for addressing women’s issues and bringing awareness to sexual assault. This year, we have been intentional in bridging these two important causes. We planned an annual Reading is Key event, where we read and gave books to children of a local women’s shelter, in addition to brining toiletry kits to the women at the shelter. Our chapter is dedicated to both the fraternity’s national philanthropy and Beta Eta’s chosen philanthropy, Joyful Heart Foundation. At the 2018 National Convention, our chapter was recognized and awarded with the Signature Philanthropy Award (for the second year in a row)!
-Changes on campus and the chapter’s overall nature:
+'''Changes on campus and the chapter’s overall nature:'''
 As part of the broader conversations currently being raised on campus, as discussed above, our chapter focused on thoroughly engaging with our D & I chair and committee over the course of the year. We want to make sure that our chapter reflects the community we are surrounded by on campus here at Stanford. This has changed the nature of the chapter for the better, as we have held several educational events about diversity and inclusion, especially before Recruitment. We have really worked to make our chapter of Kappa as accessible as possible to women in the Stanford community, especially regarding finances.
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 Our chapter is one of the most accessible in this respect for all members of the Stanford community, something we are very proud of.
-Chapter Philanthropy:
+'''Chapter Philanthropy:
-What organization does the chapter support? Joyful Heart Foundation
+What organization does the chapter support? Joyful Heart Foundation'''
-Why did the chapter choose this organization? We have chosen to support this non-profit for several years in addition to our National philanthropy because its mission is one that is all too important to our members. It is a non-profit organization dedicated to healing, empowering, and advocating for survivors of sexual violence. Throughout the year, we hold a wide awway of awareness events, from documentary screenings to conferences in order to keep up the conversation about sexual violence prevention on campus. We also hold fundraising events and sell items like our "Future is Female" shirts in order to raise money for our philanthropic mission of supporting the Joyful Heart Foundation. As an organzation, we have noticed the importance of education and awareness around these topics, and have shifted our philanthropic efforts to focus more on spreading awareness of these issues in addition to our fundraising efforts. We believe this foundation is well-worth our efforts, especially because it was founded by Kappa Kappa Gamma alumnae, Mariska Hargitay! Overall, this past year we were able to raise almost $23,000 for the Joyful Heart Foundation, and succeeded in bringing awareness about sexual assault to our campus here at Stanford, something we are very proud of.
+'''Why did the chapter choose this organization?''' We have chosen to support this non-profit for several years in addition to our National philanthropy because its mission is one that is all too important to our members. It is a non-profit organization dedicated to healing, empowering, and advocating for survivors of sexual violence. Throughout the year, we hold a wide awway of awareness events, from documentary screenings to conferences in order to keep up the conversation about sexual violence prevention on campus. We also hold fundraising events and sell items like our "Future is Female" shirts in order to raise money for our philanthropic mission of supporting the Joyful Heart Foundation. As an organzation, we have noticed the importance of education and awareness around these topics, and have shifted our philanthropic efforts to focus more on spreading awareness of these issues in addition to our fundraising efforts. We believe this foundation is well-worth our efforts, especially because it was founded by Kappa Kappa Gamma alumnae, Mariska Hargitay! Overall, this past year we were able to raise almost $23,000 for the Joyful Heart Foundation, and succeeded in bringing awareness about sexual assault to our campus here at Stanford, something we are very proud of.
-Chapter Facility:
+'''Chapter Facility:'''
 Where does the chapter meet? We host a majority of our weekly meetings at the Women’s Community Center on campus, a feminist space that offers resources to promote gender equality. Through our well established relationship with the WCC, our leadership has had the opportunity to attend quarterly dinners in which they are connected with other women leaders and resources on campus. It has been a great experience getting to work with and learn from female leaders in all corners of campus.

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-==Highlights of 2020s:==
+==Highlights of 2018:==
-(From chapter’s History Report:Scholarship, group honors/awards, traditions, special events, changes on campus or within chapter, overall nature of the chapter, chapter goals, challenges and how they were overcome, etc.)
+Our chapter feels just as good about our efforts in furthering our women’s empowerment initiatives as well. This is at the center of Kappa’s core values, and we pride ourselves on being a group of capable, passionate, and confident women. We aim to make a positive impact in the world, maintaining a constant focus on women’s empowerment. We do this through various initiatives internally, such as recognition programs at chapter meetings. Our chapter implemented programs such as KKGenius and Support a Sister to reward our members for their excellence inside and outside of the classroom. During the week, members are encouraged to nominate fellow sisters for their accomplishments, be it academic, athletic, or simply for being a strong and supportive sister. Members who are nominated are acknowledged and awarded during chapter meetings that week. Our chapter aims to create a cohesive and friendly environment within Kappa that allows all of our sisters to feel comfortable, and hopefully build on one another’s strengths, inspiring individual achievements in all areas of our members’ lives. Additionally, as a chapter we have tried to focus more of our philanthropic endeavors to help support our goal of empowering women in the broader community, we have seen our chapter used as an incredible platform for our members to accomplish positive change and have their voices heard in the community on campus. Our fraternity has tried to bring together our national philanthropy, Reading is Key, and our passion for addressing women’s issues and bringing awareness to sexual assault. This year, we have been intentional in bridging these two important causes. We planned an annual Reading is Key event, where we read and gave books to children of a local women’s shelter, in addition to brining toiletry kits to the women at the shelter. Our chapter is dedicated to both the fraternity’s national philanthropy and Beta Eta’s chosen philanthropy, Joyful Heart Foundation. At the 2018 National Convention, our chapter was recognized and awarded with the Signature Philanthropy Award (for the second year in a row)!
-'''Housing:'''
+Changes on campus and the chapter’s overall nature:
-'''Philanthropy:'''
+Chapter Philanthropy:
+Chapter Facility:
-'''Convention Awards:'''
+Where does the chapter meet? We host a majority of our weekly meetings at the Women’s Community Center on campus, a feminist space that offers resources to promote gender equality. Through our well established relationship with the WCC, our leadership has had the opportunity to attend quarterly dinners in which they are connected with other women leaders and resources on campus. It has been a great experience getting to work with and learn from female leaders in all corners of campus.

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	'''Additional Outstanding Beta Eta Deuteron Alumnae''':		'''Additional Outstanding Beta Eta Deuteron Alumnae''':
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		+	Shelley Smith Mydans, author, a Life magazine staff writer who with her husband Carl Mydans, a Life magazine photographer, spent their married life working side-by-side. They were captured by incoming Japanese troops in Manila in January of 1942. They were held as Prisoners of War for almost two years. After a respite in New York, they both returned to the combat zone, this time in Europe as World War II wound to a close.

	Lola Nashashi, Graduate Counselor 1977-1978		Lola Nashashi, Graduate Counselor 1977-1978

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−	'''1,~~366~~ initiates (as of June ~~2017~~)'''	+	'''1,368 initiates (as of June 2018)'''

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−	'''1,~~312~~ initiates (as of June ~~2016~~)'''	+	'''1,366 initiates (as of June 2017)'''

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	As a whole, our chapter is committed to working on issues of female empowerment, health, and well being, and we felt it was important that our philanthropic efforts were connected to this. The organizations we have chosen to support reflect these ideals and do an excellent job of promoting healthy women in our society.		As a whole, our chapter is committed to working on issues of female empowerment, health, and well being, and we felt it was important that our philanthropic efforts were connected to this. The organizations we have chosen to support reflect these ideals and do an excellent job of promoting healthy women in our society.
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		+	==Highlights of 2016:==
		+
		+	Kappa has focused on our values of diversity and inclusion and our recruitment process earlier this year was an important part of that. We felt that the conversations we had leading up to recruitment and our voting methods allowed for an intake of new members whose values deeply align with those of the organization: respect, integrity, and honest. As we welcomed our new pledge class, we reconnected as a chapter too. Highlights of the 2016 new member period included:
		+	• 4/12: New Member class dinner with New Member Chairmen
		+	• 4/13: Sleepover at Mirlo with sophomores
		+	• 4/17: New Member Brunch at Florence Moore Dining Hall with New Member Chairmen
		+	• 4/18: New Member/Sophomore Class S’mores bonding event
		+	• 4/25-4/29: Big-Little Week
		+	• 5/4: Standards Chapter Meeting with New Members about Drinking Culture and Hazing
		+	• 5/21: Initiation at Kappa Kappa Gamma house at University of California, Berkeley
		+
		+	We have also made changes to our financial management system to continue our efforts of financial diligence, accessibility, and transparency. Within this past year, Kappa has launched it’s Sponsorship Program, which is the first of its kind amongst Kappa chapters across the nation. This program gives girls the opportunity to seek financial assistance for the payment of their dues. Kappa prides itself on accessibility to girls regardless of their financial situation and socio-economic background, and this program has already helped eight active members make Kappa a sustainable financial choice. We have many members who are already in full time jobs to pay for their books and supplies, receive full financial aid from Stanford, and who have financial emergencies at home. Our chapter is committed to supporting these women. The sponsorship program is overseen by our Treasurer and the Stanford Kappa Kappa Gamma House Board, which manages money and resources that can be used for a potential house in the future. The House Board is willing and excited to engage with our chapter members in a myriad of ways, including financial assistance. The Sponsorship program is funded through donations, and does not deplete chapter provided funds that the House Board will continue to reserve in the case that our organization gets a house. The recipients have written thank you notes to their sponsors, and will attend an appreciation event in the Spring.
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		+	This year, we have also updated our approach for academic support and exploration within the chapter. The Academic Excellence Committee set up study sessions in various spaces on campus so that members can come together to work and de-stress. In winter quarter the new Chapter Council began a quarterly program during which members group together and discuss the classes that they would recommend, study strategies that have worked for them and the best resources they have accessed on campus. Additionally, we maintain a list of our active members’ majors and minors so that undeclared members can find people within the chapter to reach out to with questions about their coursework. This quarter, we hosted two panels during chapter meetings focused on career experiences of our members and alumni.
		+
		+	Along with these milestones, Kappa has been recognized on campus and at the national level. This year, Kappa received an ‘exceeding expectations’ on our Standards of Excellence presentation and report, the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life at Stanford’s annual evaluation system for all Greek communities on campus. Our score placed us among the best performing Greek organizations at Stanford.
		+
		+	At convention this summer we were awarded the ‘Signature Event’ prize for medium sized chapters for our benefit concert Snowchella, there is more information about our philanthropy later in the document. This year, Kappas have been involved in numerous varsity and club athletic teams, led and participated in pre-professional and philanthropic organizations, held research and fellowship positions and performed in various dance and theater groups.
		+

	==Highlights of 2020s:==		==Highlights of 2020s:==

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−	'''Founded as Beta Eta June 10, 1892 with 11 charter members; Closed 1944 -- ~~494~~ initiates (as of 1944 closure)'''	+	'''Founded as Beta Eta June 10, 1892 with 11 charter members; Closed 1944 -- 471 initiates (as of 1944 closure)'''


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−	'''1,~~262~~ initiates (as of June ~~2015~~)'''	+	'''1,312 initiates (as of June 2016)'''

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 Beta Eta was the first Kappa chapter to build its own house and the first to own a house.
 The beloved house was described in the July, 1900 issue of The Key as having “sloping moss green roofs, pointed gables, dormer windows.  The wrought iron lattice over the door bears the letters KKΓ and the art glass windows with the fleur-de-lis embedded in the cardinal, form an artistic entrance… the third floor, the abode of the freshmen, and familiarly known as ‘the attic’ is one large room… the most delightful place for initiation and informal spreads, while from its many windows one gains the best view of the surrounding hills covered with oak trees and, in the spring, ablaze with the glorious California poppies… From its setting of green foothills, (the house) looks across the level fields, over the treetops of the Arboretum to the narrow line of bay and the hazy blue mountains beyond.”
 The earthquake of April 18, 1906, brought normal college life to a halt.  There was great damage on the Stanford campus.  When the chapter returned to school in September, member found that the house had remained untouched during the summer, rather than repaired, since labor and materials were so scarce.  A luncheon for freshmen had been scheduled for registration day.  Because their dishes were broken and the plaster down, the resourceful Kappas partied on the porch.
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 Early in September, 1918, the house was badly damaged by fire; and again during summer quarter of 1927 there was a fire and chapter members returned to find the roof gone.  By January, 1928, aware of the difficulties of separation, the chapter was able to get back together.  The alumnae corporation and the Fraternity had made it possible to repair the damages, and the Mother’s Club had raised a considerable fund to help refurnish the house.  In 1934 the house association constructed a much-needed wing to provide additional bedrooms, a chapter room, and a lounge.
 Field Secretary Helen Snyder (Andres), BΠ—Washington, wrote in the February, 1933, issue of The Key, after her first visit to Stanford, “… my fondest expectations realized in its fine students, beautiful buildings with arcades, quadrangles, magnificent memorial chapel, palm trees, and landscaped grounds… long a fine chapter… scholastic and activity honors are many… a congenial chapter.”  Her first official act as grand president in June, 1935, was to call for ratification of the appointment of Beta Eta’s Emily Caskey Johnson as director of standards.