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Replace '''1057 initiates (as of June 2018)''' ----------------------------------------------- '''Charter Members''': RoseMarie Ackerman, Sandra Amos, Melissa Aschenbach, Pamela Baran, Patricia Barracato, Jennifer Bergan, Linda Birkenberger, Jennifer Booth, Siobhan Campbell, Jill Castanien, Kirstin Coulter, Jane Crow, Beth Crutcher, Anne Dabbelt, Connie DelVecchio, Susan Dufek, Kimberly Esgro, Aimee Felder, Sharon Graven, Susan Hatheway, Julie Harris, Kelley Hecky, Ann Hof, Judy Homa, Sandra Ireland, Nancy Jimenez, Karen Kettering, Diane Kragt, Roberta Lee, Cynthia Leopold, Sarah Leupp, Elizabeth Macy, Mary Madormo, Linda Martens, Maria Mauric, Sue McHugh, Arleen Meier, Marianne Miele, Kimberly Moore, Heidi Moorma, Judith Myers, Marlene Norris, Linda Olenick, Claudia Onopiak, Janet Pavasko, Lydia Perez, Holly Preston, Susan Rahrig, Lisa Ramler, Debbie Rees, Elizabeth Rolfe, Tammy Salem, Elizabeth Santner, Christine Schetter, Christi Skinner, Karen Sukert, Judith Teach, Deborah Yonders '''Fraternity Council Officers''': '''Fraternity Loyalty Award Recipients''': '''Fraternity Alumnae Achievement Award Recipients''': ---------------------------------- ==The Early Years - 1980s== Zeta Kappa was founded on April 30, 1983 with 58 charter members. Pamela Anthrop, ΓΔ – Purdue and Josette Baxter, EH – Auburn served as Chapter Consultants in the early years. In 1987, Zeta Kappa received several awards recognizing high GPAs for pledges as well as the whole chapter. They also learned that recent graduate Beth Perry was named chapter consultant for Epsilon Zeta chapter at Florida State University. This was quite an honor for such a young chapter. A record number of women went through rush this text year, and it proved to be very successful for Zeta Kappa as well. Bowling Green announced plans to add another sorority. In 1989, Zeta Kappa hosted their first Province Meeting with the Toledo Alumnae Association and welcomed alumnae and active members of Gamma Province as well as Traveling Consultants and Panhellenic delegates. Their members continued to be active on campus and involved in many organizations besides Kappa. They were honored to receive the Dean’s Scholarship Trophy for highest chapter history GPA at the Spring Scholarship Desserts. They welcomed forty-two pledges in the fall who held a very successful fundraiser for the Kidney Foundation. ==Highlights of the 1990’s== The 1990’s saw several more years of exceptional academics at Zeta Kappa, and they were proud to be recognized by clicking edit near the top rightuniversity. Several members participated in the Miss BGSU Pageant and Homecoming Court. They remained active on campus and contributed hundreds of hours of community service. The Greek Olympiad was their big annual event that raised hundreds of dollars each year for the Bowling Green Family and Child Abuse Prevention Center. The Bowling Green Panhellenic community saw a steady decline in rush numbers through the 90’s. Zeta Kappa also noted an overall decline in scholastic achievement and accumulative GPA’s. Despite these struggles, the chapter was recognized for excellent chapter standards at Bowling Green as well as the Kappa convention. By 1996, rush numbers began to increase again after several years of decreases. ==Highlights of the 2000’s== Zeta Kappa continued their strong focus on philanthropy in the 2000’s and started new events like Kappa Classic Golf Philanthropy, Kappa 5K, and Kappacinos. In addition to supporting their local organization, Kappa Kidney Camp, they also held fundraisers and book drives for Kappa’s national philanthropy, Reading is Fundamental. In 2004, Ohio Governor Bob Taft recognized the chapter for helping to improve the reading skills of Ohio's youngest students through dedication and service to Ohio Reads, an organization that promotes literacy among youth. They also organized a Cancer Awareness Spaghetti Dinner in support of sister Kate Doney who was diagnosed with lymphoma in 2008. In the 2010’s, the Greek community finally began to experience growth once again. The university started the Greek Housing Project to build townhouse-style complexes for all fraternities and sororities. Zeta Kappa was moved to a temporary dorm in fall 2014 and shared the space with Alpha Xi Delta and Pi Beta Phi until their new home was ready in 2016.
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'''Bowling Green University was established in 1910, Bowling Green, Ohio'''
'''Founded April 30, 1983'''
'''Chapter:''' The Zeta Kappa Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma is a very strong chapter with emphasis on sisterhood. We try to build sisterhood with other chapters on campus. For example, we have invited chapters over to watch movies, play games, and eat dinner with us. Our chapter house is another aspect we take pride in. The house looks like a rectangular dormitory; however it is so much more than that. It is a place for our sisters to come and feel like they are at home. We have a family room, a formal room, a computer lab, a study, and a kitchen. All of these rooms contribute to the overall feeling of a real home away from home. Our house, values, and members all contribute to who we are as a chapter and how strong our chapter has become.
One of our biggest challenges we faced in the beginning of the fall semester was respect for one another. We all worked very hard to get back on the right track and gain respect back for ourselves, each other, and Kappa as a whole. Another challenge we faced in the previous year was raising money for our philanthropies. We didn't donate as much as we had in past years and not as many members actually attended Kappa Kidney Camp. We improved this greatly by having Kappa Kappa Grilled Cheese this fall, the money raised will be given to Kappa Kidney Camp for this coming summer. Also, we didn't donate any money to our second philanthropy Reading is Fundamental (RIF). We are in the process of formulating a plan to become more involved with RIF. Our cumulative GPA for the year 2011 was 3.12, we strive for 3.14. We plan to keep raising our GPA each year through hard work and dedication.
==Highlights of 2012==
We try to meet in our new chapter house as much as we possibly can. We typically only meet here for informal chapter and sisterhoods because the space is slightly limited for the size of our chapter. We are trying to work with the space that we have so we can have every chapter meeting in our house but for now, formal chapters take place in an open classroom on campus meet in classroom on campus to give us enough space.
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==Highlights of 2018==
Over the previous calendar year Zeta Kappa has had much success. At convention we earned "Most Improved Academic Excellence Award" for outstanding achievements for the years 2016-2018. Philanthropically, Zeta Kappa raised a total of 3,613 dollars for our three philanthropies this calendar year. Moreover, the chapter was involved in Sigma Chi's Derby Day philanthropy competition which we won for the second year in a row. By doing so we were able to support both Sigma Chi's philanthropy and our own, while also spreading a positive philanthropic awareness across campus. As for chapter goals, our focus letter was lifted as we made great strides as a chapter and accomplished all that was laid out for us in the letter. Zeta Kappa also just saw 2 women end their terms on BGSU's Panhellenic Council, these Kappas held the positions of Panhellenic President and Vice President of Service. While these two Kappas ended their term on Panhellenic two new Kappas were installed as President and Vice President of Membership Development. This was a great honor as a Kappa woman will be serving as the BGSU Panhellenic President for the second year in a row.
'''Philanthropy'''
Reading Is Fundamental, Kappa Foundation, and Kappa Kidney Camp
Two of these are national Kappa philanthropies which all Kappas support. Kappa Kidney Camp however is specific to Ohio Kappas. It is a philanthropy which helps send children on Kidney Dialysis to Camp once a year and cover all of their medical bills. This camp allows children struggling with kidney dialysis to attend camp and not worry about their medications or health.
==Highlights of 2019==
Over the past year, the Zeta Kappa chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma has completed quite a bit. One our biggest achievements over the past calendar year is we were the number one fundraiser for our local philanthropy, Kappa Kidney Camp. We had several women take the opportunity this summer to go to southern Ohio and attend the camp, and meet the children who participate. We received Greek Standards of Excellence awards in the spring based on communication, involvement with other chapters in the greek community, and academics/organization. This past semester at BGSU Panhel began study bunch, in which many women of our chapter began attending.Quite a few women in the chapter received the Kappa scholarship, as well as one woman in our chapter received the panhellenic scholarship. We have also implemented book buddies, in which we have second grade pen pals, in which we donate books to each month. At the end of each year we have a pizza party with our pen pals. This semester we also implemented social probation, in which we hope will eliminate the amount of grade risks, as well as standards concerns within the chapter. Our goals for the next semester: be in the top five GPAs on campus, and have 2 or less people sent home from a date party.
Within the past year, BGSU has gained a wonderful new president of the university, Rodney Rogers. He is encouraging leadership and promoting the good of FSL. He has created a very positive influence on the chapter, and the campus as a whole. He has had service meetings and president meetings in which women of our chapter have been invited to, and have attended.
Our local philanthropy is Kappa Kidney Camp. We feel as though this is a very important philanthropy to get behind. The children who benefit from this organization are amazing, and seeing the progress is absolutely priceless.
We celebrated founders day this year at a country club in Perrysburg, in which many women received their pins for being a kappa woman for however many years. We always do a luncheon, providing lunch and dessert. We also closed with the mystic circle as well.
Our alumna chair, Heather has been in contact with many of our alumni informing them of the anniversary coming up. We have also talked to many of our chapter's charter members as well. We were hoping to have a celebration here in Bowling Green, inviting various alumna to come.
==Highlights of 2021:==
Starting the year in January 2021, we completed recruitment. On January 31st, we welcomed 3 new members from open. In February, our three new members underwent formal pledging on February 21st and big little week began the next day in February 22nd. In March of 2021, our whole Greek community suffered the passing of Stone Foltz on March 7th due to fraternity hazing. Because of his passing, nearly all chapter activities of every organization were halted and chapters have ongoing efforts to work with the Office of Fraternity and Sorority life. Later this month, on the 28th were able to have a virtual programming with Lesly Stern covering different issues faced by college woman, like healthy vs toxic relationships and sexual assault. In April, we were able to virtually initiate our 2 new members that completed their learning on the 17th. The last chapter of the school year was on the 18th. .Over summer break, we held a summer recruitment workshop on campus on June 27th .
In August, many of the actives living in the house volunteered to move in freshmen on August 24th. On August 26th, we began classes and the start of a new semester. In September, we participated in greek wide meet the chapters on the 3rd. Formal recruitment was held from September 9th-12th, with bid night occurring on the 12th. As a chapter, we recruited 12 new members during formal recruitment. On September 18th, our University had homecoming and we welcomed Kappa alumni at the house with brunch at 11 am. COB was open from 9/19 until 9/22, 4 bids extended and 3 were accepted In October, we held our annual cotton candy philanthropy event on 10/6. Big little reveal was on October 7th. On October 13th, we had our Founder’s day celebration at the Kappa house. I-week began on Sunday the 17th. We had an I-week sisterhood on October 19th at a local bowling alley and the annual Blue and Blue dinner at our house on Thursday the 21st. Fireside service was held on the night of Friday, the 22nd and Initiation was the next morning on Saturday October 23rd. All 15 girls from the PC ’21 were successfully initiated for the first in person initiation Zeta Kappa held since 2019. Grilled cheese with KKG took place that night on October 23rd and raised over $1,100. On October 28th, many active members volunteered for the Halloween in the Greek Village community event. Lastly In October, our chapter had a self defense programming on the 31st with the Alpha Xi Delta on campus. In the first November chapter, we elected members to slating committee. On November 8th, I held an initiation debrief for the newly initiated pledge class so they could learn more ritual material. On November 14th, the new slate was presented to the chapter in new business. On November 17th, we held a chipotle fundraiser which raised over $200 for the Jed Foundation. During chapter on November 21st, the new slate was approved.
As an Ohio chapter, Zeta Kappa Chapter typically raises money for the annual Kappa Kidney Camp that takes place in Ohio over the summer. Our chapter greatly values our contributions to giving kids the chance to have a normal summer camp experience they would not have. In addition to raising thousands, every year we always have many active members who volunteer at the camp on Kappa day. Due to the pandemic, Kappa Kidney Camp has not been able to be put on hiatus. We as a chapter have begun to raise money for the Jed foundation as an extension of the new Lives Fully Lived campaign from Kappa Nationals. We are excited to raise money and awareness for mental health, especially after the effects of the pandemic on our sisters and organization.
Our Philanthropy events were able to resume when we came back to campus this fall. This included Kappa cotton candy on October 6th, Kappa Grilled Cheese on October 23rd, and a chipotle fundraiser on November 17th. Before the winter holidays, we also plan to participate in the Rose McGill Holiday Program.
Our DEI chairwoman has presented issues and prompted conversations about DEI issues throughout the year, especially around recruitment times. We look forward to continuing to build this position within our chapter. Our goal is for the DEI chair and Education chair to work more closely together to provide more programming on DEI topics
The pandemic had a large effect on our chapter. During the spring semester of 2021, most chapter activities were virtual. All chapter meetings occurred over zoom, as well as our spring Initiation. Starting in the fall of 2021 when we returned to campus, we were able to have in person events and chapter once again. All indoor activities required wearing masks, including chapter and Initiation. We have also been able to resume volunteer hours since returning to in person activities.
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