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'''Founded March 13, 1875 '''
'''3,013 initiates (as of June 2013)'''
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'''Charter Members:'''
Ida Anderson, Ada Oliver, Amy Puett, Margaret Purviance, Finetta Victorine Wiggs, and Lillian Wiggs
'''Some of Chapter’s Outstanding Alumnae:'''
'''Fraternity Officers:'''
Margaret Noble Lee, Grand Secretary 1881-1882; Minnetta Theodora Taylor, Editor of the Key 1882-1886; Harriet Moore Thomas, Grand Secretary 1898-1900; Eliza Jean Nelson Penfield, Grand President 1900-1902; Mary Sidelia Starr Donner, Delta Province President 1917-1921; Ann Watts Hostetler, Beta Province Vice President 1925-1929, Beta Province President 1929-1931, Lambda Province President 1929-1931; Jane Ramey Knox, Lambda Province President 1929-1933; Hannah Hunt Stokes, Lambda Province Vice President 1931-1935; Mary Ann Scholl Elliot, Delta Province Vice President 1941-1945; Josephine Torr Kuttler, Zeta Province Vice President 1943-1945; Mary Singleton Wamsley, Theta Province President 1943-1947; Alice Anne Longley Roberts, Field Secretary 1943-1945; Mary Elizabeth Davis Wampler, Graduate Counselor 1946-1947; Frances Shahan Ulen, Delta Province President 1945-1947; Frances Fatout Alexander, Mu Province President 1947-1953, Director of Chapters 1954-1956, Vice President 1958-1962, President 1964-1968; Bernice Read Mayes, Mu Province Vice President 1947-1949; Elizabeth Zimmermann Howard, Epsilon Province Vice President 1951-1953; Rebecca Rhue Dooley, Gamma Province Director of Alumnae 1955-1957; Mary Louise Williams Rapp, Epsilon Province Director of Alumnae 1957-1959; Margaret Haun Groetsch, Zeta Province Director of Chapters 1963-1965; Caryl Gernandes Wilhoite, Graduate Counselor 1965-1966; Jean Wilcox Morris, Alpha Province Director of Alumnae 1965-1967; Linda Buell Corrigan, Graduate Counselor 1974-1975; Sally Milbourne, Graduate Counselor 1975-1976; Carolyn Steele, Zeta Province Director of Chapters 1975-1977
'''Fraternity Loyalty Award Recipients:'''
Frances Fatout Alexander, 1970. She was a Mu Province Director of Chapters from 1949-1953. Next, she served as Fraternity chairman of pledge training and then as Director of Chapters from 1954-1958. She became the Fraternity’s Vice President in 1959 and served two terms. She went off Council in 1962 to become Kappa’s National Panhellenic Conference delegate from 1962-1964. She was Fraternity President from 1964-1968. She became the chairman of Fraternity research and Panhellenic alternate delegate in 1968.
'''Fraternity Alumnae Achievement Award Recipients:'''
Eliza Jean Nelson Penfield, 1950- Grand President of Kappa. Outstanding record as a platform speaker, parliamentarian, lawyer, and leader in the cause of voting rights for women. She had toured the west with the late Carrie Chapman Catt to work for ratification of the woman’s suffrage amendment. She helped to found the League of Women Voters.
Bertha Fain Tucker, 1954. She has been elected judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County in 1953, the first woman elected to judgeship in Cook County since 1923. She had built a reputation for fearlessness and fairness among the legal profession.
Anne Elder, 1976. She was a talented script writer and received an Emmy Award. She acted at “Second City” in Chicago, was a regular on television’s “Laugh-In.” She produced two Billy Jean King Specials, “Women In Sports”; “Bill Daleys’ Hocus-Pocus”; and an ABC special filmed at Sea World, Cleveland. Anne co-authored the Mitzi Gaynor specials for TV, and was a guest on many TV game shows.
'''Additional Outstanding Iota Alumnae:'''
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==The Early Years==
==Highlights of the 1920s:==
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Most of the previous information was excerpted from The History of Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity, 1870-1930 and The History of Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity, 1870-1976. The information that follows has been gleaned from available resources including Chapter History Reports, chapter meeting minutes, letters and comments from chapter members and alumnae, the Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity Archives, and The Key. Each chapter is expected to update its history record annually. Contact Fraternity Headquarters at kkghq@kkg.org with questions.
==Highlights of the 1970s:==
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==Highlights of the 1980s:==
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==Highlights of the 1990s:==
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==Highlights of 2000-2010==
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==Highlights of 2011-2020==
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.:
==2012==
