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In 2013, Ainsley Carry replaced Michael Jackson as Vice Provost for Student Affairs. Carry has made a strong effort to form a relationship with the Greek community in hopes of improving Greek-University relations. Delta Tau, along with the other chapters at USC have been continuing to make positive contributions to the University and demonstrate that the Greek community is one of its many assets. We hope to continue to make strides towards a better relationship with the University in 2014.
==Highlights of 2014==
2014 has been an amazing year for the Delta Tau chapter, filled with exciting events, proud accomplishments, and growing sisterhood bonds. First of all, it seems as though philanthropy has been the theme of our year. Just last week, we held our Mother Daughter Luncheon in downtown Los Angeles raising money for Girl Academy and Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust, a philanthropic initiative working to improve neighborhoods in our own backyards. We had over 170 guests, with mothers flying in from around the country. It was truly a special day for all of our mothers to come together and bond with our mothers and as a chapter!
On top of this, earlier in October, we held our first Kappa Karnival, organized by our philanthropy chair, Kendall Deighan. With food trucks, "Dunk a Kappa" and rides, we attracted over 800 students that came to help us raise money for Reading is Fundamental. We were so proud of this sucessful event and look forward to continuing this new tradition in the future! And last but not least, we are holding our "Kappa Kickball" philanthropy next week and are extremely excited to bring everyone together to help us raise money! Along with that, this year, we have made it our mission to be meticulously on top of getting information for our events our early and planning ahead so that we can get as many people involved with helping as possible, as so far that has been working to our advantage! Our chapter has also been very involved on the row and participated in many fraternity philanthropies including Sigma Chi’s Derby Days, Lambda Chi Alpha's powderpuff, Pi Kappa Phi's Winter Wars and Kappa Sigma’s Bootkamp just to name a few.
In November, we held our scholarship dinner, where we hosted professors from many diverse departments to present to them the values of Kappa Kappa Gamma, and the importance of our studies. With a very motivational speech by Rick Caruso, everyone walked away extremely impressed and newly motivated to continue working hard! We have been packing our calendars with our favorite events including going to amazing sisterhood events such as apple picking, midnight movie premieres and even going to Disneyland together, along with our invites Kappa Kabana and Sapphire Ball, and of course, we’ve all had a blast watching the USC Trojan Football team. This year, Allison Gersten, Kate Fullenweider, and Chloe Heyman went to the Houston Conference and had a blast meeting all the Kappas from around the country and learning so many new things they didn’t know about Kappa! The Delta Tau chapter had a fantastic 2014, and we are all looking forward to making 2015 just as successful. With our new class of leaders coming into their positions, especially with Allie Gersten as our very involved President, we are all very excited to make a difference in our house. We are more motivated than ever to show our house Delta Tau's true potential and see how amazing we can be as a chapter, as a part of a Kappa nationally, and as a part of our community around us!
University of Southern California: This year the Greek community has made major strides in improving relationships with the University. There has been a strong effort from chapters to show the University the positive attributes associated with having a greek system on campus. We are very proud of Kappa's involvement on the panhellenic board and feel as though that has given us a better relationship with the school. Lindsay Barlow, Cat Brackett and Katie Fell, all have played a critical roll on the panhellenic board and we are so impressed with their dedication and so thankful for all the work they are doing to help the Greek system and Kappa! Also there has been an increase in community involvement including work with local elementary schools. All of these steps are helping to diffuse tension with a previously anti-greek university administration.
Our Delta Tau chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma holds meetings in our house's chapter room. The chapter is a owned facility. We built our current house on 929 West 28th Street in 1965, and the sisters of Kappa Kappa Gamma moved into the house in 1966 and we have lived in that house ever since then. This house can hold up to 80 girls and we make sure that everyone who wants to live in gets an opportunity to experience living in the house. Before our most current house, our chapter lived just down the street on 716 West 28th Street.
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