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Our chapter holds weekly meetings in the beautiful KKG house just off campus, where sisters can go to study, cook food, or just spend time with each other. We are continuing to make upgrades to the house through our campaign Renovate Rho, and our house is looking better and better!
==Highlights of 2017==
[[File:Rho Deuteron Chapter house.jpg|thumb|Rho Deuteron Chapter house]]
==Highlights of 2018==
Rho Deuteron is an outgoing, activity-minded, culturally and socially aware group of sisters that fearlessly pursue their passions. OWU’s liberal arts culture helps sisters create research projects and presentations about topics from geology to museum aesthetics to accounting practices on the West Coast. We encourage strong, loyal, kindhearted friendships among our sisters, and we try to always keep our eyes on friendship, love and loyalty. Our New Member classes always immediately feel welcome and loved by the active sisters within our chapter.
[[File:Rho Deuteron 2018 with Gail Simpson Owen & Beth Black.jpeg|thumb|Rho Deuteron 2018 with Gail Simpson Owen & Beth Black]]
What a great year for Rho Deuteron! This year we learned the importance of heritage and sisterhood both on our campus and beyond. We started the year with a lovely visit from former fraternity president Beth Black and new president Gail Owen in January. Then several of our sisters participated in the reinstatement of Beta Nu chapter at The Ohio State University, attending both their Formal Pledging and Initiation service. Seeing the persistence of Kappas coming together to preserve a beautiful organization left our chapter feeling inspired and proud of our Beta Nu sisters. For Founders Day, our chapter had a presentation from our Marshal about the history of Rho Deuteron itself. We loved decorating cookies together and learning about our chapter roots as Rho Sigma literary society, and as a secret local sorority when the university banned Greek Life in the early 1910s. We also had sister Justine Clark ’20 serve a term on the Panhellenic Council doing Public Relations. Since our sister Aimen Shah ’20 was the RA of OWU’s Panhellenic House residential community, we had several Panhellenic-themed events in the Fall: a cookout at the Panhellenic House with the four other houses on campus, and a holiday party with Delta Zeta.
We welcomed a NM class in both the Spring and Fall: 11 new sisters in the Spring with an “Out of this World”-themed Bid Day, and six new sisters in the Fall with a “Glow Kappa”-themed Bid Day. The chapter swept the Greek Awards this year, winning the Chapter Program of the Year Award for 2017’s Reading is Key event, the Outstanding Alumni Relations Award, Sorority Member of the Year Award (alumnae sister Cat Boyle ’18), Outstanding Sorority Scholar Award (sister Holley Hickman ’19), the Robert K. Marshall Award (alumnae and advisor Julia Hatfield ’06), the Emerging Leader Award (sister Juliana Freisen ’20), and the Tom Courtice New Member Award (alumnae sister Cheyenne Hanson ’18). Five sisters were also chosen for the prestigious Order of Omega. At Convention, we received an Honorable Mention for the Heritage Award, and we also had a sister attend Leadership Academy this fall. The house G.P.A is on a steady increase thanks to study hours and the introduction of Gamma Goals, a program where sisters make academic goals for the week and are rewarded when they accomplish so many. Three of our sisters are graduating a semester early, and several will be studying abroad in Costa Rica, Italy, and Spain next year. Our sisters spent their summers traveling, interning, and conducting research at a variety of places, from heart disease research at The Ohio State University, to planning Orientation for the OWU Class of 2022, to traveling to England to study Shakespeare or to Germany to study astronomy. Popular majors in the chapter continue to be health and science-related fields, politics and government, business fields, modern foreign languages, and psychology, though we have sisters involved in the social sciences, performing arts, humanities, and natural sciences.
Ohio Wesleyan is currently in the middle of an exciting campaign called Connect Today, Create Tomorrow. The campaign is intended to strengthen every aspect of campus life--academics, financial aid and academic scholarships, career connections and assistance, infrastructure and residence hall life, the unique OWU Connection program, and alumni relations. Fundraising is ahead of schedule, which is not just good for the university, but for our sisters. Our sisters are no stranger to utilizing the OWU Connection, and every school break we have sisters traveling as part of Travel-Learning Courses (unique out-of-classroom, on-site learning programs) and Theory-to-Practice Grants (special research grants students can use to travel almost anywhere). Our sisters also travel abroad frequently, and are recipients of academic scholarships.
'''Philanthropy'''
Reading is Fundamental; Kappa Kidney Camp; the Kappa Foundation
We support Reading is Fundamental because it is Kappa’s main philanthropy, and our sisters have a long history of involvement in academic research and enthusiasm on OWU’s campus. As for the Foundation, many of our sisters do receive or have received scholarships over the years, and honoring our history is something hugely important to Rho Deuteron. We support Kappa Kidney Camp because it is a local philanthropy run by Kappas in Columbus, Ohio for children on dialysis. We believe in both supporting the local humanitarian efforts in our surrounding community, and in giving children undergoing treatment the equal chance to “be a kid” and have a summer camp experience. Since many of our sisters want to work in the medical field, and some specifically with children, this philanthropy is particularly meaningful.
Philanthropically, Rho Deuteron also had a stellar year. Thanks to the efforts of sister Molly Geffken ’19, Philanthropy Chair during 2018, we recreated our Spring Philanthropy from Kappa Karaoke to Kappa Kapture the Flag. We raised over $6,000 for RIF with this event alone, and are so thankful to Molly’s creativity for helping us accomplish this! Our chapter also participated in events like Delta Delta Delta’s Kicks for Kids, Delta Gamma’s Anchor Splash and Anchor Bowl, Delta Zeta’s DZ Dodgeball, and Delta Tau Delta’s Beach Bash. Finally, several sisters volunteered their time to welcome the OWU Class of 2022 to campus by being Camp Oh-Wooo leaders and leading the 488 new students in team building and bonding activities before they started classes.
We are blessed to be such an active chapter on such a diverse, involved, and beautiful liberal arts campus!
==Highlights of the 2020s:==
(Information from chapter history reports, 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.)
'''Housing'''
'''Philanthropy'''
'''Convention Awards'''
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'''Note to Chapter Registrar:'''
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