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==Highlights of 2016== 2016 has been a great year for the Gamma Delta chapter! We have continued to build strong relations with other chapters in our PanHellenic community here at Purdue. On multiple occasions, some ladies from the gamma delta chapter hav
This past year has been full of fun memories. Our house is always looking for ways to improve and support one another. I’m excited to see all of what comes of the next year!
==Highlights of 2016==
2016 has been a great year for the Gamma Delta chapter! We have continued to build strong relations with other chapters in our PanHellenic community here at Purdue. On multiple occasions, some ladies from the gamma delta chapter have done Kappa acts of kindness around campus. In December, we passed out “kappa chinos” to students that passed by at a booth that we set up. We loved doing this and it warmed a lot of students up on their walk from class. In February we passed out Hersey kisses with a sign that said, “Kisses from kappa”.
We have also had a few programing nights. One of the programming nights was a presentation about HIV. We learned all of the causes, symptoms, risks, and preventions methods. This was a very interesting presentation and we received a lot of useful information.
We have always enjoyed coming together as a whole chapter outside of our weekly chapter meetings. We have gotten together as a whole chapter a lot throughout this year during sisterhood functions. Some of our favorite sisterhood functions have been when we all went ice-skating, hung out at the house and made valentines and candy bags to send to troops overseas, wrote letters to our mothers and played board games, went to the movie theater and saw the hunger games, and had a frozen yogurt truck come to the house. Our Vice President of Standards has done an amazing job at planning sisterhood functions that we all enjoy doing and that allow us to focus on the values of our beautiful sisterhood. Our dances have also been very successful this year! In the spring we had Sapphire and in the fall we had Barn Dance. Both dances were planned well and everyone seemed to have a blast!
Sisterhood is something that is very important to us but academics are also a top priority for our chapter. In the spring semester we were very proud of our house GPA of 3.34. All of the ladies have been working so hard this year towards improving their personal GPA’s as well as the whole house GPA. We all motivate and push each other to be the best we can be as a scholar and as a woman. Some of our seniors are graduating in December, a semester early, as well as being offered some awesome jobs and we couldn’t be more proud of them!
We have been working on improving our relations with Alumnae this year. We invited Alumnae to come visit the house and our Kappa tailgate during homecoming weekend. It was so inspiring seeing all of the Alumnae that still bleed blue and hearing all of their kappa stories that they cherish. Over the summer, we had some renovations done in the informal and formal rooms. The alumnae that visited loved the improvements!
This fall, we made it through another successful recruitment. We added 41 smart, beautiful women to our sisterhood. This pledge class learned all about Kappa and was able to be initiated in early November.
This past year has been very memorable. I am so lucky to be able to call all 148 of these women my sisters and I’m excited to see what all we can accomplish next year!