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

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 |Image= [[File:Lambda.jpg|200px]]
 |Founded= {{start date and years ago|1877|06|10}}
-|College= [http://www.uakron.edu/ University of Akron]
+|College= [https://www.uakron.edu University of Akron]
 |Location= Arkon, OH
-|Homepage= [http://chapters.kappakappagamma.org/lambda/ Lambda Homepage]
+|Homepage= [https://uakron.kappa.org Lambda Homepage]
-|Media= [http://wiki.kappakappagamma.org/index.php?title=Category:Lambda Media related to Lambda Chapter]}}
+|Media= [https://wiki.kkg.org/index.php?title=Category:Lambda Media related to Lambda Chapter]}}

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 Strawberry festivals, taffy pulls, and chestnut roasts were popular pastimes. A Lambda girl was fined $2 for wearing a gentleman’s fraternity pin. Term dues to the Grand Chapter were $1; personal dues, 25 cents; initiation fee, $1.25; fines for absence, tardiness, and disorderly conduct, 25 cents, 10 cents, and 5 cents.
 The most tragic event ever associated with Lambda was the fire of 1890, started at the praeceptress’s party for birthday girls. A Mother Goose cap, made of paper and tufted with cotton, took fire from a gas light. Two girls died that night and another later; five others were badly burned. The whole college mourned.
 ==The   Fire   of   1890==

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   THE   FIRE   OF   1890
 The   Fire   of   1890
-Viola   Myrtle   Steigmeyer   was   born   on   November   10,   1870   in   Seneca,   Ohio   (Archive   1).
+Viola   Myrtle   Steigmeyer   was   born   on   November   10,   1870   in   Seneca,   Ohio   (Archive   1). [[File:Artifacts from Lambda fire of 1890 1.jpg|thumb|Artifacts from Lambda fire of 1890]]
 Viola   also   went   by   two   other   nicknames,   Lulu   or   Lula.   It   was   not   easy   to   find   Miss   Steigmeyer in   historical   records   because   of   her   other   two   nicknames.   In   the   U.S.   Census   of   1880,   Miss Steigmeyer   was   put   down   as   Lula   (Archive   2).   This   name   was   used   in   other   newspaper   articles such   as   Mourning   Buchtel   (Archive   3).   It   was   not   until   the   end   of   my   research,   that   we   found   her real   name.   On   Ancestry.com,   someone   made   a   family   tree   with   her   father,   Frederick   H. Steigmeyer,   and   mother,   Caroline   Steigmeyer.   They   had   labeled   Viola   Myrtle   Steigmeyer   as   the daughter   of   Frederick   and   Caroline   Steigmeyer.   I   can   assume   that   Lulu   and   Lula   are   nicknames for   Viola   (Archive   8).   On   Viola’s   gravestone,   it   uses   the   name   “LuLu   Steigmeyer.”   Under   her name,   are   the   names   Lockie   and   Clarence.   These   were   the   names   of   her   brothers   who   died   a   year after   birth.   However,   Lulu   died   in   1890,   but   her   gravestone   says   1870-1900   (Archive   9).      I   can only   assume   that   this   was   a   mistake.   I   have   read   online   articles   saying   that   gravestones   are   not always   an   accurate   way   to   get   a   person’s   date   of   birth   or   date   of   death.   I   can   hypothesize   that with   the   sudden   death   of   their   daughter,   Mr.   and   Mrs.   Steigmeyer   may   have   not   had   the   funds   at the   time   to   create   a   gravestone   for   their   daughter.   It   also   could   have   been   just   a   mistake   made   by the   gravestone   maker   that   in   fixing   it   would   have   cost   too   much   time   and   money   (Archive   10). The   real   reason   may   never   be   known.
 On   December   13,   1890,   the   women   of   Kappa   Kappa   Gamma   were   having   a   birthday celebration   for   all   the   girl’s   birthdays   that   fell   between   the   months   of   September   to   December. This   celebration   occurred   at   Cary   Hall   in   Buchtel   College.   There   were   about   a   dozen   or   so   girls dancing   around   a   piano.   These   girls   were   wearing   festive   costumes,   tall   paper   caps   trimmed   with

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 now   call   her   by   her   right   names;   Viola,   Lula,   or   Lulu.   We   also   now   know   that   two   other   girls died.   May   and   Myrtle   will   be   given   attention   as   our   “ghosts”   in   our   house   as   well.   Even   though the   fire   did   not   happen   at   a   Kappa   house,   I   am   sure   we   will   say   that   they   are   with   us   in   our   house. For   more   information   please   refer   to   the   archives   mentioned.   Archive   5   explains   in   great   detail what   happened.   A   special   thanks   to   Jeff   Bader   for   helping   me   find   all   of   this   information.
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 A happy event mentioned in early minutes told of a visit in 1882 to the Wooster chapter (two years later the Wooster girls were refused a return visit by their rigid faculty), and the two groups celebrated Thanksgiving together with dinner, a reception, and, next morning a sleigh ride.
 Strawberry festivals, taffy pulls, and chestnut roasts were popular pastimes. A Lambda girl was fined $2 for wearing a gentleman’s fraternity pin. Term dues to the Grand Chapter were $1; personal dues, 25 cents; initiation fee, $1.25; fines for absence, tardiness, and disorderly conduct, 25 cents, 10 cents, and 5 cents.
 The most tragic event ever associated with Lambda was the fire of 1890, started at the praeceptress’s party for birthday girls. A Mother Goose cap, made of paper and tufted with cotton, took fire from a gas light. Two girls died that night and another later; five others were badly burned. The whole college mourned.
 Lambda’s interest in the Fraternity at Large was spurred by the election of Marion Bell Slade (Ransom) as grand marshal in 1884. The 1886 Convention was held in Akron, costing considerably less than $75. Lambda presented another honorary member, Emma White Perkins, who sang at the Convention. Mary Krenzke (Grandlin) was Grand Secretary, 1886-1888. Lambda had continuous representation on Council. Elmie Warner (Mallory) served four years as Grand Registrar and two as Grand President after her marriage, 1904-1906; Elizabeth Voris Lawry was Editor of The Key and then Grand Treasurer; Lydia Voris Kolbe was Grand Treasurer six years, Business Manager of The Key two years, and Grand President, 1916-1920. She was also the first Gamma Province president. Helen Farst Walace wrote the Lambda chapter report for the 1870-1930 History of Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity.
 Turn of the Century
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 During the Depression many Kappas worked part time, dues were lowered, and the spring formal was cancelled. Song Fest took place for the first time in 1933.
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 We also started off the month of February with a few more recruitment events that brought us four wonderful women for the Spring 2016 pledge class. We held our Spring Bid Day soon after to celebrate our new members, and the theme was Kappas Have S’more Fun! To complete this fun camping theme, we even brought a huge tent into the meeting room. We also held our first philanthropy event of the year, Kapparoni and Cheese, which is an event that was created and started by our Philanthropy Chairman in 2015. We decided to do it again this year and it was met with huge success. Many members of the Greek Community attended in support of us and our philanthropies. Our New Member Educator brought in a new system for getting to know the new members called Kappa Speed Dating, which was a really awesome way to help both the chapter and new members bond with each other better.
 March began with the GLAs and was filled to the brim with philanthropy events, PHC events, and meetings. We had Big Little Reveal where our four new members happily joined their new families, and they began to feel even closer to Kappa. March was also the month that we started doing extension presentations to welcome another chapter onto our campus. We had a team of 10 sisters who regularly attended these presentations to help make the decision for our Panhellenic Community.
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 All in all, the morale of the chapter this year was very high. Our sisters were proactive in supporting other organizations on campus, and getting involved all over campus in the causes that they were passionate about. Many sisters were involved with the election, and strongly encouraged all members to go out and vote. Some were even involved with protests after the election. With the changing president of the university, there was a much more positive outlook for everyone on The University of Akron’s campus, and it was especially evident throughout the Greek Community as our new president become even more involved with our activities as well. 2016 was a great year to be a Lambda Kappa, and we are excited to see what 2017 has in store for us!
-Highlights of 2020s: (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.)
+The new members competed in a sorority and fraternity competition called Mocktails. Their themed that they picked out was Hades. They made their own costumes and rocked it out with an awesome drink. It was one of the first events that new members got to bond with each other at. New member retreat gave a chance for their pledge class to spend some time together.
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+October 26th was a special day for the students at Springfield Elementary School. We held a Reading is Fundamental (RIF) event there in a Kappa alumni’s classroom (Kindra Kin). We read students Halloween books, had them color bookmarks, and gave each student a book to keep. We also had a sisterhood that day where we dressed up as grandmas and grandpas to play BINGO. We ate fig newtons, banana pudding, and rice crackers. The next day we had a social with Theta Chi where we made caramel apples and played a huge game of Mafia.
-'''Note to Chapter Registrar:'''
+November was a busy month for Kappas. Kappa Karnival started the month off with carnival games and raffle baskets to gain money for our philanthropies. Dynamic Duos was the date party’s theme. Soon enough it was initiation time again. We started with spread, then blue and blue, then fireside, and lastly initiation. The new members were finally let into the secrets and rituals of our sorority.
+This year many sisters were influenced by our movements to try and disprove the stereotypes that are associated with sororities. All over the country many unfortunate situations have been happening that have been harming the Greek Life reputation. Lambda chapter has been working to disprove those stereotypes and work towards a better reputation of sororities and fraternities. We also have been excited about the news that the Kappa chapter at OSU is coming back. We also cannot stop expressing our happiness that Meghan Markle (Kappa alum) will be marrying Prince Harry. We even say that we are related to royalty. 2017 has been a year filled with many great memories like Girls Academy, Kochella, chapter retreat at the Indians game, and our new found friendships. Yet, it was not easy to deal with the passing of our sister, Morgan Sisley, but we will always know that she is right by our side guiding us to success in our Kappa days.

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 We began 2016 with a bang by having our Leadership Day to bring in the new officers for our Chapter Council. We hosted many recruitment events the last two weeks of January to hopefully bring us another great spring pledge class.
 We also started off the month of February with a few more recruitment events that brought us four wonderful women for the Spring 2016 pledge class. We held our Spring Bid Day soon after to celebrate our new members, and the theme was Kappas Have S’more Fun! To complete this fun camping theme, we even brought a huge tent into the meeting room. We also held our first philanthropy event of the year, Kapparoni and Cheese, which is an event that was created and started by our Philanthropy Chairman in 2015. We decided to do it again this year and it was met with huge success. Many members of the Greek Community attended in support of us and our philanthropies. Our New Member Educator brought in a new system for getting to know the new members called Kappa Speed Dating, which was a really awesome way to help both the chapter and new members bond with each other better.
 March began with the GLAs and was filled to the brim with philanthropy events, PHC events, and meetings. We had Big Little Reveal where our four new members happily joined their new families, and they began to feel even closer to Kappa. March was also the month that we started doing extension presentations to welcome another chapter onto our campus. We had a team of 10 sisters who regularly attended these presentations to help make the decision for our Panhellenic Community.
 Our busiest month of the spring was April. We participated in many philanthropy events including Dance Marathon, an organization that many of our sisters were very involved with. We also participated in Relay for Life where we were one of the top organizations in raising donations. Our new member class also held a fundraiser of their own called Kappa Kornhole, and the next week was our Inspiration/Initiation Week, where all four of the members of Spring ’16 were initiated. We held our second philanthropy event of the year, Late Night Waffle Bar, this month as well. This was a brand new event for us that turned out to be a lot of fun not only for those who came to the event, but also for us as we had a great time making waffles and hanging out around the kitchen together. We created a team for Walk A Mile called the Blue Keys (much like the Black Keys, which is a famous Akron rock group) and many of our sisters raised money and attended the event. And finally, we ended our very busy month with a formal to get the stress off of our minds and dance the night away.
 May was short and sweet for us as it marked the end of the semester. We participated in a few final philanthropy events and hosted our own philanthropy event. We brought back Kolor A Kappa again this year to end out our semester. We also had our senior night, where we said goodbye to our sisters who were going alum.
 The summer time meant more time for our sisters to hang out by the pool, volunteer, and practice more of our favorite hobbies, which we did a lot of. It also meant some sisters went back home, which meant lots of road trips to see sisters that were further away. We also kepy up the philanthropic spirit by walking in the Kidney Walk in Cleveland with some of the Phi Taus, and participating in World Kidney Day. All day on June 29 our sisters shared facts about kidneys in support. To bond right before recruitment, there was even a pool party where many sisters hung out and reminded each other why they joined this amazing organization.
 Before classes even started, recruitment started. In August, we were attending recruitment workshops, volunteering to help freshmen move in to the dorms, and talking to PNMs at the Ice Cream Social and Glow Party. September brought us recruitment, where we welcomed our Rho Gams back home and a Fall Pledge Class of 22 women to their new home. We celebrated the successful weeks of recruitment with a Drake Bid Day. You could find gold glitter in the house for months after this celebration. We had study nights, house dinners, sisterhoods, and Kappa Speed Dating to help the new members and actives bond and get to know each other well as they became a bigger and bigger part of the chapter.
 We were also excited to welcome the newest chapter on to campus, Delta Zeta! We had a lot of fun going through some of the steps of recruitment with them, and helping them bring home a wonderful pledge class for their organization as well.
 October proved to be the busiest month in the year for the Kappas, and we really had to stay on top of things this month to keep up with everything. We all took a trip to the Akron Zoo for our Chapter Retreat, and we all felt like little kids again, running around looking at animals and going down the slides with otters.  Some of our sisters attended Alpha Phi’s Housing Ceremony for their new house, while others attended Delta Zeta’s Bid Day. We participated in Greek Week with Theta Chi, Delta Zeta, and Phi Delta Theta, which helped us to get to know members of the Greek Community that we may not have gotten to know before. We also hosted our first philanthropy event of the semester, Lemonade for Literacy, along with attending Soberfest, Kappa Sigma’s hockey fundraiser, Octoberfest, and Mocktails for Alcohol Awareness Week. We also had our Big Little Reveal as well, which gave our new members families to call their own. Many of our sisters also proudly took on the role of becoming a Big to a Delta Zeta Little as well, helping the DZs to feel like Akron really is home for them. And finally, we ended the crazy month by attending our cartoon themed Date Party held at the Score. Everyone came dressed as their favorite Kartoon Network character, and we had a great time!
 The first week in November was Inspiration/Initiation Week and on November 5 we initiated 20 beautiful new women into the chapter. Things slowed down a bit for the chapter, but our sisters continued to participate in events, especially the Flag Football Game and Sweat for a Cause for Circle of Sisterhood. We partnered up with Alpha Sigma Phi to host a dodgeball tournament in the Field House on campus. We also got a brand new Chapter Council filled with many new faces that we know are going to bring brand new ideas and events to the chapter in the next year, and we can proudly support in their endeavors.
 We ended the semester strongly, with many of our sisters gathering to study for finals and help each other succeed in any way possible. We sent off a group of seniors, and soon after we had our last philanthropy event of the year, Christmas with the Kappas. We did this event last year, and this year we brought it back for the second year right before Finals’ Week to help everyone take a break from all of the studying and get in the holiday spirit. The president of the university, President Wilson, even attended our event with his wife!
 All in all, the morale of the chapter this year was very high. Our sisters were proactive in supporting other organizations on campus, and getting involved all over campus in the causes that they were passionate about. Many sisters were involved with the election, and strongly encouraged all members to go out and vote. Some were even involved with protests after the election. With the changing president of the university, there was a much more positive outlook for everyone on The University of Akron’s campus, and it was especially evident throughout the Greek Community as our new president become even more involved with our activities as well. 2016 was a great year to be a Lambda Kappa, and we are excited to see what 2017 has in store for us!