Eta Kappa
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| Founded | March 4, 2007 |
| College | Knox College |
| Location | Galesburg, IL |
| Homepage | Eta Kappa Homepage |
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Knox College established in 1837 in Galesburg, Illinois
Founded March 4, 2007 - 31 charter members
117 initiates (as of June 2013)
Outstanding Eta Kappa Alumnae
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Fraternity Loyalty Award Recipients:
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Highlights of 2007 - 2010
On a cold March morning, members of Eta Kappa took a Polar Plunge at Lake Storey in Galesburg, Illinois. With a minimum pledge of $75.00 for the icy dip, more than $23,177 was raised for the Illinois Special Olympics.
The evening of Thursday May 8, the Gizmo on the campus of Knox College was packed with excited sorority and fraternity members clad in neon green shirts which read, âÂÂGreekalodion,â the Greek Week theme. Members had gathered to watch the popular Greek talent show and find out the winners of Greek Week events. The show was filled with a variety of acts including Kappa Kappa GammaâÂÂs singers and dancers playfully mocking Knox Greek organizations to much applause. As it would turn out, the chapter skit would win the award for funniest performance.
Greek Week began with SundayâÂÂs Greek Olympics with stations set up throughout campus. Monday was trivia night, which had a large turnout. Tuesday was devoted to philanthropy with a blood drive. The Boys and Girls Club donations went on all week, and each Greek organization earned points for the supplies donated. The Greeks were able to raise $125 for The Boys and Girls club as well as boxes of school supplies. Wednesday was the awards banquet. Many of the Greeks present were happy for such a relaxing, fun week, especially concerning the difficulties Greek life has taken the past year concerning local colony admittance to becoming Greek organizations. Overall, Kappa Kappa Gamma came in third place with 122 points.
For the last three weekends in October in 2008, women of Pi Beta Phi and Kappa Kappa Gamma got together for a twenty minute drive north of campus to scare the pants off people. The two sororities tried something new for both of them - a joint philanthropic venture. Being sister sororities, the women realizing both of their organizations were founded âÂÂup the road in Monmouthâ with both of their nationalsâ philanthropy geared toward literacy, it made for a great pairing. Both chapters liked the idea of using the philanthropy as a sisterhood bonding event. The women joined together at the Country Corner Farm Market and Pumpkin Patch to work in the corn maze, running the stand or scaring people inside, and afterwards the proceeds from the ticket sales are split up among the organizations based on how many hours each works. The Kappas put their money toward Reading Is Fundamental.
On the evening of October 24th, 2008 the ladies of the Eta Kappa chapter brought students, parents, and other members of the Greek community together for their second annual âÂÂWin-A-Dateâ event. $1,856.15 was raised to support Girl Effect through BRAC programs for Safe Spaces and Small Loans for Teenage Girls in Tanzania. The evening was the culmination of a week of fundraising through change wars between Greek organizations on campus. The two members from each of the social Greek organizations Kappa Kappa Gamma, Delta Delta Delta, Pi Beta Phi, Phi Gamma Delta, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu, and colony, ATP, as well as from the Alpha Phi Omega Service Fraternity and Sigma Alpha Iota Music Sorority volunteered to be hosts and hostesses for the dates. Local businesses donated dinner, movie, and bowling certificates, which were given as prizes to the winning bidders and their dates. Among the many generous donations made that evening was one exceptional date that sold for over $230. Eta Kappa members felt a special connection to this particular cause not only as women, but also from the personal experiences of its members. One activeâÂÂs travels to Uganda inspired the first Uganda Initiative event in 2007. Another member, studied abroad in Tanzania in 2007. With this in mind, Eta Kappa chapter was inspired by Girl Effect and was proud to support the education and empowerment of women internationally.
Individual honors and awards by the chapter members included: AAINA (co-president); Alpha Phi Omega (VP Membership, Pledge Marshall, Co-chair of Book Co-op); Asian Student Association; Business Club; Campus Progress (PR chair); Carl Sandburg Literacy Coalition Tutor; Circle K; Class Officer â Secretary; Co-ed Water Polo (captain, treasurer); College Art Association; Costume Shop (T.A.); Cottage Hospital Volunteer; Cross Country; Dance Squad; Film Production Club (treasurer); Galesburg Civic Art Center Intern; Golf team; Habitat for Humanity (Event Coordinator); Harambee; Hillel Club; Intervarsity Christian Fellowship; Invisible Children (Secretary); Jazz Combo; Junior Great Books; Knox Ambassadors; Knox Bloggers; Knox College Sign Language (Treasurer); Knox County Jail Literacy Project (lead tutor); Knox County Regional G.S.; Knox Galesburg Symphony; Knox Sandburg Community Concert Band (Percussion section leader); Knox String Ensemble; Making Things Craft Club; Mortar Board (Membership chair); Odyssey Mentoring; Office of Admissions; Orchestra; Order of Omega (Vice-President); Prairie Players; Pre-Vet Club; Reading Buddies; Rep Term XV; Residential Adviser; Residential Quality Committee; Rotaract; Rugby (co-captains); SASS (PR chair); SHAG (secretary); Soccer team (captain); Spanish Club; Student Athletic Advisory Council; Student Athletic Trainer; Student Senate; Student Senate Finance Committee; Studio Theatre (Director); Swimming team; Tennis team (captain); Terpsichore (PR chair); Track and Field ; Union Board; WomenâÂÂs Chorale; WomenâÂÂs Water Polo (captain, treasurer); WriterâÂÂs Forum; WVKC and Yoga Club
Philanthropy 1-2-3:
As individuals with time, talents and treasures, Kappas first support their sisters; second, participate in local service projects; and third, serve the greater good. The chapter women support elementary schools, Relay for Life, Big Brothers/Big Sisters and Habitat for Humanity to name a few. Chapter fundraising events support causes such as the American Cancer Society, breast cancer/Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, tsunami relief, and multiple sclerosis research. Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) was supported through the donation of thousands of books and volunteer hours to Boys and Girls Clubs, elementary schools and hospitals. The chapter also supported the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation with financial gifts and Rose McGill magazine subscription sales to help fund scholarships, confidential aid, education and training, and support of the two Kappa museums.
In May of 2009 Sigma Chi and Kappa Kappa Gamma co-hosted an ultimate frisbee tournament to raise money for the FISH Food Pantry. Proceeds from the event were donated to the pantry that provides families in need with enough food to feed them with three nutritious meals a day.
Eta Kappa chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma brought 14 Greek organizations and students together along with 35 businesses from Galesburg on Friday, October 16, 2009 in the campus Gizmo for the purpose of raising money for Valhalla Experimental Station in Guatemala. The total amount of money raised for Valhalla exceeded $1,000 dollars. The behind-the-scenes work was described as âÂÂreally hard to orchestrate.â Previous to the event, the chapter did fundraising through âÂÂchange warsâ with a jar for the president of each Greek group at their table during meals. The presidentâÂÂs jar with the most money earned the title of âÂÂultimate dateâ and received the biggest gift certificate. Gift certificates for places such as QâÂÂs Café, KaldiâÂÂs, pizza restaurants, and bowling alleys went with each date. All of the certificates were donated by businesses in Galesburg.
During the May 2010 Knox Greek Week, Eta Kappa members earned two awards: Adviser of the Year and Emerging Female Greek Leader.
Thursday, October 28, 2010 the Business ClubâÂÂs Halloween Crafts Day provided an opportunity for Knox students and children from the local Boys and Girls Club to bond over Halloween-themed crafts and games. The multidimensional club along with members from Alpha Phi Omega and Kappa Kappa Gamma hosted 30 children, ranging from six to nine years old. The afternoon began with a game of freeze tag, followed by Duck, Duck, Goose and Red Light, Green Light. Refreshments were served.
On Friday, November 5, 2010 the women of Eta Kappa hosted its fourth annual âÂÂWin-a-Dateâ event to fundraise for the BeLikeBrit foundation. The women were interested in fundraising for BeLikeBrit because a member had a family connection with the organization. According to the organizationâÂÂs mission statement, BeLikeBrit works âÂÂto serve the children of Haiti by establishing a safe, nurturing and sustainable orphanage in an environment where they can grow, learn and thrive.â The money the sorority raised went towards building a new orphanage. Before the event began, the Greek men and women that went with each date package were asked to describe their ideal date, including the place and atmosphere. Each also chose a runway song that played while they were onstage, several using the opportunity to show off their dance moves. Various date packages, such as gift cards to Jimmy Johns or Cherry Street Restaurant and Bar, were auctioned off to the highest bidder. Members of 10 different Greek organizations volunteered their time to accompany the winner on each date. The successful auction raised approximately $1,850 dollars and the event had a large turnout.
Highlights of 2011 - 2019
The fraternities and sororities at Knox have distinctly different ways of recruiting members. Notably one thing that makes the college different from many other schools is that no freshmen are allowed to join the Greek system during their first term at Knox. Sorority recruitment consists of three rounds. The first is sisterhood round, the next one is philanthropy round and the third being a preference round.
2012
We began 2012 by welcoming eight new members into Eta Kappa chapter with a successful formal recruitment. In February, we held our annual Reading is Key event at the Galesburg Public Library. In March, we celebrated the fifth anniversary of our chapter, and it was amazing to see just how far we've come in such a short amount of time.
After Spring Break, we also welcomed back three of our sisters who had been studying abroad in Spain and we held COB and welcomed another three new women into our chapter. That month, we also elected our new Chapter Council, a group of strong and capable who were installed in April. The incoming and outgoing members of Chapter Council participated in a weekend of bonding and training at our annual Kappa Kabin at an advisor's cabin.
In the spring, we also participated in our campus's Greek Week, in which we won first place against eleven other Greek-letter organizations. When we returned to campus in the fall, we began work on our annual Win-A-Date fundraiser. Through cooperation with other Greek-letter organizations on campus, we were able to raise almost $2,000 to benefit the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America, which has aided one of our very own Eta Kappa members. We also won Sigma Chi's annual Derby Days, a friendly competition between all of the sororities on campus. Fall term we had the highest GPA average that we have ever had as a chapter and we currently have the highest GPA of all the Greek organizations at Knox.
In the spring, Teresa Amott, was installed as the 19th president of Knox College. It was an inspiration to our chapter and women across campus to see our first female president. In the fall, Knox's Panhellenic Council voted to lower total, so we were unable to hold informal recruitment. Since then, total has been raised and we are excited to hold informal recruitment again in fall 2013.
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