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==Highlights of 2020==
This past calendar year was full of many new memories and many new experiences for our sweet Gamma Alpha chapter. Our chapter is known for our heavy involvement on campus. We have many women who are involved in campus organizations ranging from K-State Student Foundation, Cats Cupboard, K-State Proud, Student Government Association, and the K-State band and Classy Cats (dance team). One of our won Gamma Alpha women was voted to be the 2021 K-State female Student Ambassador!
Our women are also involved in volunteering around Manhattan and even amidst COVID our women found a way. These volunteer opportunities have ranged from Big Brothers Big Sisters, nursing homes, and local food pantries. We were able to hold 1 philanthropy event over Instagram. We raised money with CrowdChange boards for Reading is Fundamental (RIF). We raised $638 for RIF, collected 80 books with our book drive to give to Manhattan schools, $200 were donated to KKG Foundation, and despite the pandemic, our Gamma Alpha women donated 289 hours of community service projects in 2020.
The ladies of Gamma Alpha are also Kappa geniuses. Our spring 2020 semester all chapter GPA was 3.7, ranked above the all sorority average for K-State. This put us in 5th out of 13 of the sororities that are on K-State’s campus for grades.
Recruitment looked very different this year, but our girls are resilient and can adapt and prosper through anything which was shown in our retention rates and outcome of recruitment. With COVID, our recruitment ended up being completely virtual, along with Bid Day as well. We pledged 39 wonderful women into our chapter this year, staying close to last year’s numbers despite the pandemic. We are so grateful we were able to hold initiation in person this year. We initiated 38 strong and wonderful women into the Gamma Alpha chapter.
Unfortunately, K-State’s Homecoming also was put all online, but Kappa’s presence and involvement did not dip at all. We received second place in homecoming this year with our partner AGR! We are so proud of this achievement especially during the pandemic.
One goal our chapter had was to strengthen the sisterhood we were already building. We were very lucky and able to have our Mom’s Weekend and our “Kappa Kappa Galactica” date party before the pandemic hit. These were both hits with so much dancing and fun with our sisters.
After school went all online, our chapter got very creative in different activities we could participate in to strengthen sisterhood. We were able to hold our semi-formal in late November with only Kappa’s and it was a wonderful night of laughs, dancing and sisterhood. There were many online activities with lots of conversations and even a zoom call celebrating our 2020 spring graduates and showering them with memories and love we had for them. This year could not have been as fun and wonderful as it was without our house mom, Mom Jules, and house cook, Liz. These two women put the ladies of Gamma Alpha first and went above and beyond to make this year the best it could be. We are forever grateful for them. There were so many Bachelor watch parties, movie nights, dance parties, and side porch hammock hangouts that were so special and intimate this year with our sisters.
We are so thankful for the moments this year brought, the ability to slow down and appreciate the time we have, and the people who helped support our chapter to thrive in such a difficult time. We are so excited for another year of memories at 517 Fairchild Terrace.
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