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100 graduate degrees and 50 doctoral degrees. There have been new additions to campus including a new Honors dorm and
renovations to the performing arts center and much more on campus. Along with educational buildings, the
Greek community is also changing. The Texas Tech University chapter of Alpha Chi Omega is in the process of building a new lodge toaccommodate the growth. The Sorority and Fraternity council recently voted on adding a chapter of Phi Mu to Greek circle. The vote was not in their favor due to a more recent sororities needing time to thrive.
It has been a year and a half since our lodge opened and we have used it to its full potential. Our chapter has
years. We started donating hours to expand our community involvement while also supporting and
dedicating ourselves to our national philanthropy , Reading is FUNdamental.
==Highlights of 2019==
The Previous Calendar Year was packed with events and items for the chapter to attend. From Mom's and Dad's weekend in the Spring to Recruitment and Initiation in the Fall and everything in between. We are incredibly proud of our members for being involved and striving to make the chapter better. This Fall during Recruitment we welcomed in a wonderful class of new members who go above and beyond to serve the Delta Psi chapter already. They are eager to help and spend more time together than we have seen in the past. They look to include everyone and truly were excited for whatever the chapter council held for them from new member meetings to initiation, everything was something to look forward to. This year in Philanthropy the chapter went above and beyond the goal at Kappa Klassic which is an annual golf tournament we host of Dad's Weekend. This allowed us to give back in larger ways. With every academic year and season there comes challenges; but this year we as a chapter council focused on how to involve middle members. We used committees very well and assigned each person an actual role that they signed off on so they knew they were being held accountable. We also allowed members to help with announcements, setting up for events, and other tasks so that it was a chapter as a whole contributing. This year seemed to make the chapter closer and feel more like a family than before. This year, there were not many major events that happened on campus for us to contribute to. We as a chapter try to help in any way possible. This year two other Panhellenic women were diagnosed with cancer and fundraisers were held for them around campus. As a chapter we took up a donation as well as encouraged chapter members to attend the givebacks held by their respective chapters.
Campus at Texas Tech seems to always be changing and growing. The main changes with Campus are the arrival of new buildings and expansion of the university. The overall nature of the chapter is not changed by the Campus construction but rather people enjoy being at the lodge more often! The Delta Psi chapter may be different than others in that we do not live in the house, but we make up for it and strengthen the chapter in many other ways. We encourage women to spend time together outside of chapter meetings and I feel as this Year the chapter council did a wonderful job of spacing out events so that there was always something to do. From sisterhood, philanthropic, to formals and chapter dinners it seems there was always a way to get involved.
The Delta Psi Chapter supports Children's Miracle Network here in Lubbock and has for years. We are absolutely passionate about making a difference in the community and love giving back in as many ways as possible. Through Reading is Fundamental we have chosen a local elementary school called Ervin to give back to and support. Every week women from the chapter get to sit and read with kids and help make their day just that much brighter.Our Philanthropy chair even created her own website to help run the Kappa Klassic fundraising and this truly helped make the process easier, more time efficient, and excelled the amount of attention and support it brought in for the event. Children's Miracle network has allowed us the opportunity to give back locally and see the impact first hand in the hospital through tours of the NICU. Ervin elementary was chosen as it is a lower income school but through serving these kids we have gotten to see first hand the potential that each and every one of these kids have. They may not be provided all the resources but truly do use what they have to excel and be great. They come in so overjoyed to see us and are extremely grateful for the gift of time and books.
The chapter celebrated Founders day with an Annual dinner that was held at the McKenzie Merket Alumni Center on campus here at Texas Tech. It was a formal sit down dinner with a notable Guest Speaker. The Mayor of Amarillo came to speak to our chapter and truly encouraged them to chase their dreams, believe it themselves, and not let the fact that you are a woman stop you from what you want in life. Academic awards were presented at this banquet as well as recognizing the President for all she has done to selflessly serve the chapter. We closed the banquet by holding a Memorial lead by all Alumna for the Kappas lost over the year.
We have begun to show pictures from the beginning of the Delta Psi chapter here in Lubbock, Texas but also the beginning of Kappa. The 150th anniversary is an incredible year to celebrate. We are celebrating 150 years of women who have helped shape the world and Kappa to be a foundational organization that impacts the lives of college women to be the best they absolutely can be. We shared a small tid bit during Founders Day about the 150th anniversary and will continue to recognize the incredible monuments that have happen in the past, this upcoming year.