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Delta Omicron believes it's important to support organizations local to Iowa State. One way we do this is through one of Iowa State’s largest student organizations, Dance Marathon. As it ties with Reading is fundamental, Dance Marathon supports children in need that are located specifically in Iowa. The University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital directly affect families at Iowa State in our Greek Community and so we have developed a strong relationship with Iowa State Dance Marathon. Our annual spring philanthropy is continuously successful due to our support of DM and our pancakes are anticipated throughout the Greek community. Many Kappas attend the event in January and as our chapter puts an emphasis on participation, our membership genuinely enjoys fundraising and attending the big event.
==Highlights of 2017==
This past year, Delta Omicron has accomplished many goals throughout our greek community, and within our chapter. Our first recognition as a chapter this year was at Vespers when Kappa Kappa Gamma was awarded the Best Academic Programming out of all other sororities in our community. This award was based off the hard work of the 2016 Academics Committee and advisor. Through their efforts, and continued this year, our Academics Committee help women struggling academically in a one-on-one setting, create positive programming for the entire chapter, and celebrate with a scholarship brunch each semester. Our current Vice President of Academic Excellence, Elizabeth Garzon, continued this academic programming through Major Captains and a motto focused on finding your personal mentor on campus. This hard work truly paid off when Delta Omicron increased its overall GPA by .17 after the spring semester, making us the 4th highest GPA in the community.
At the beginning of this fall semester we participated in primary recruitment, where we maxed out our total, and recruited at record return rates.Throughout the week our membership chairman focused on sisterhood and relationships with one another. This value based recruitment (and lots of coffee) was a huge part to our success of welcoming a new pledge class of 46 sisters.
A goal of our chapter council at the beginning of our term was to improve our Alumni relations. What started as a goal on a piece of paper, soon was executed by our Public Relations chair with our first ever Alumni Event. This event was held at our university alumni center this fall, and the evening consisted of desert, speeches, pictures, trivia, storytelling, and of course, Oh Pat. Following the event, alumni were welcomed back into our home for a house tour, and a trip down memory lane.
Our chapter has an amazing shared sisterhood and morale is as good as ever! We were excited to spend more time together in our basement after seeing all the amazing renovation that
were made over the summer!
For our chapter meetings, each monday we meet in a room on campus. We can no longer hold our chapter meetings in our house because we have outgrown our chapter room. The rooms on campus that we our meetings in are typically large lecture halls without windows.
Historically, Delta Omicron has held philanthropic events to raise money for Reading is Fundamental, The Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation, and Dance Marathon. Not only did we continue to hold successful events for these amazing foundations, but also introduced a Coffee and Donut even to raise even more funds for Dance Marathon. In total, we raised $7,133 for our philanthropies this last year. In addition to our chapters philanthropies, we also raised money with our Greek Week Pairing, Alpha Tau Omega, and Triangle Fraternity, for a total of $24,934 worth of donations to the Iowa Special Olympics.
==Highlights of 2018==
