In the infancy of Kappa Kappa Gamma, Fraternity affairs were handled with extraordinary capability by a succession of Fraternity Presidents and Councils composed of Kappas in their early twenties, many of whom were still in school. Today, Presidents and their Councils are alumnae who serve as trustees for 141 chapters and more than 250 alumnae associations, with a membership of more than 287,000. The Fraternity Council members'responsibilities include ensuring support, guidance and leadership training for undergraduate and alumnae; providing programming for women supporting women; supervising the financial affairs of the Fraternity; overseeing the operation of Fraternity Headquarters; and most importantly, maintaining the standards and values expressed in the purposes on which the Fraternity was founded. ''KAPPA'S FIRST GRAND PRESIDENTHistory 2000, Tade Hartsuff Kuhns'Kappa Kappa Gamma Through the Years''
== '''1870 - 1880''' ==<table><tr><td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Grand Chapter Presidents|Image= [[File:AnnaElizabethWillitsGrandSeal.jpg|200px|thumb100px|leftlink=Grand_Chapter_Presidents|Anna Elizabeth Willits, photographed as a studentGrand Chapter Presidents]]|Date= 1870-1880}}</td>
Tade Hartsuff (Kuhns), Mu Chapter, Butler </tr>(1859-1937)</table>
== '''1881 - 1900''' ==<table><tr><td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Tade Hartsuff Kuhns|Image= [[File:TadeHartsuffKuhns.jpeg|100px|link=Tade_Hartsuff_Kuhns|Tade Hartsuff is a persona familiar to those who have visited Fraternity Headquarters, for her lifeKuhns]]|Date= 1881-sized, full-length aquarelle portrait hangs in the mail hall, revealing a woman of stately beauty, with warmth in her smile. 1884}}</td>
At the 1881 Convention, years before the portrait was painted, Tade Hartsuff was an eager, vivacious, black-eyed collegian, her dark curly hair pulled into long ringlets that fell down her back. Changing the Fraternity’s Bylaws to a Grand Council form of government wasn’t the only revolutionary idea Tade put forth as Mu delegate in 1881. The first business recorded in the Convention minutes concerns the founding of a Fraternity publication, a proposal that originated with a committee Tade chaired. In adopting the idea, Kappa Kappa Gamma became the first women’s fraternity to publish a magazine. As Minnetta Taylor, DePauw, wrote of the 1881 Convention in the first issue of The Golden Key, “Miss Hartsuff and I found a common sympathy<td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Charlotte Barrell Ware|Image= [[File:CharlotteBarrellWare. She was a red-hot radical, or rather improver, and I was a whitejpg|90px|link=Charlotte_Barrell_Ware|Charlotte Barrell Ware]]|Date= 1884-hot one. We both believed with all our hearts and minds and souls in the new woman and her future.”1888}}</td>
It is a testament to Tade Hartsuff’s intelligence and leadership that she guided the Fraternity in implementing a new form of government as its first Grand President while simultaneously serving as Mu Chapter President and carrying on her work as a student in her senior year. After graduation, she became the first woman in Western Pennsylvania admitted to law school and became engaged to John Bugher Kuhns, a member of Phi Delta Theta, the men’s fraternity that had given her the idea for a Grand Council<td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Kate Bird Cross|Image= [[File:KateBirdCross.jpg|100px|link=Kate_Bird_Cross|Kate Bird Cross]]|Date= 1888-1890}}</td>
Tade served as Grand President from 1881<td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Lucy Wight Allan|Image = [[File:Lucy Wight Allan.jpg|100px|link=Lucy_Wight_Allan|Lucy Wight Allan]]|Date= 1890-1884, during which time eleven new chapters were formed. It is said that parliamentary law and the drawing up of constitutions were a simple matter to Tade Hartsuff.1892}}</td>
Two years after graduation, in 1886, Tade married John Kuhns and settled in Pennsylvania </tr></table><table><tr><td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Emily Bright Burnham|Image = [[File:Emily_Bright_Burnham. When part of her state became flooded three years later, she plunged into relief efforts for victims, soliciting contributions from as far away as Texas and Montana. That same year, throat pain threatened her with deafness, and on a doctor’s advice, she and Kuhns moved to California for 18 months. That journey instilled in Tade a lifejpg|100px|link=Emily_Bright_Burnham|Emily Bright Burnham]]|Date= 1892-long love of travel.1894}}</td>
In 1890, she took her first trip to Europe. Fourteen years later she took her first trip around the world and was gone three days short of a year. During this trip she started to go deaf<td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Katharine Lucinda Sharp|Image = [[File:Katharine_Lucinda_Sharp.jpg|100px|link=Katharine_Lucinda_Sharp|Katharine Lucinda Sharp]]|Date= 1894-1896}}</td>
When her husband died a year later, Tade continued to travel in earnest, and in 1930 she was described by the New York Sun as one of the most widely<td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Bertha Richmond Chevalier|Image = [[File:Bertha_Richmond_Chevalier.jpg|100px|link=Bertha_Richmond_Chevalier|Bertha Richmond Chevalier]]|Date= 1896-traveled women of the world. She journeyed seven times to Japan, traveled 3,000 miles up the Nile and the length of Africa, lived in the Vale of Kashmir, and visited both Persia (now Iran) and Siam (now Thailand). She attended the funerals of kings and emperors, Edward VII’s coronation and the Paris Exposition; she heard Sun Yat Sen speak on the first anniversary of the Republic of China.1900}}</td>
When she could, she attended Conventions, sharing her adventures with her Kappa sisters. She urged internationalism at the Golden Jubilee Convention in 1920 (at which she also presented the Fraternity with the full-length portrait). Deafness, however, kept her from enjoying all of the lighthearted intimacies and subtleties of Convention friendships. </tr></table>
In November 1932, the first copy of The History of Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity, 1870== '''1900 -1930, was given by author May C. Whiting Westermann, Nebraska, to Tade who bequeathed it to the Fraternity archives. By 1936, she was not only deaf but unable to use her eyes for more than an hour a day. In 1937, the year she died, Kappa established its first foreign exchange program in her honor.1910''' ==<table><tr>
Tade Hartsuff Kuhns is remembered as a woman of unprecedented independence who was also friendly, generous and tactful, with a pervasive sense of humor. She is also remembered for her enthusiasm, not only about Kappa but for women and their place in the world<td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Eliza Jean Nelson Penfield|Image = [[File:Eliza_Jean_Nelson_Penfield.jpg|100px|link=Eliza_Jean_Nelson_Penfield|Eliza Jean Nelson Penfield]]|Date= 1900-1902}}</td>
During her last term as Grand President, it was written in The Golden Key that, “The character of a fraternity is to some extent determined by the quality of its individual members, but its success as an organization depends upon their united efforts for the attainment of its aim and object… <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= May Cynthia Whiting Westermann|Image = [[File:May_Whiting_Westermann. Both as chapters and as individual members of the Fraternity, we are directly responsible for the name and reputation of our order.”jpg|100px|link=May_Cynthia_Whiting_Westermann|May Cynthia Whiting Westermann]]|Date= 1902-1904}}</td>
The strength of Kappa Kappa Gamma can be traced to the vivacious leadership and foresight of Tade Hartsuff Kuhns, a woman whose life is an inspiration not only for Kappas but for all women<td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= (Lydia) Elmie Warner Mallory|Image = [[File:Lydia_Warner.jpg|100px|link=(Lydia)_Elmie_Warner_Mallory|(Lydia) Elmie Warner Mallory]]|Date= 1904-1906}}</td> </tr></table> <table><tr><td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Mary Griffith Canby|Image = [[File:Mary_Griffith_Canby.jpg|100px|link=Mary_Griffith_Canby|Mary Griffith Canby]]|Date= 1906-1908}}</td><td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Edith Stoner Robinson|Image = [[File:Edith_Stoner_Robinson.jpg|100px|link=Edith_Stoner_Robinson|Edith Stoner Robinson]]|Date= 1908-1910}}</td> </tr></table> == '''1910 - 1920''' ==<table><tr> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Florence Burton Roth|Image = [[File:Florence_Burton_Roth.jpg|100px|link=Florence_Burton_Roth|Florence Burton Roth]]|Date= 1910-1912}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Eva Powell|Image = [[File:Eva_Powell.jpg|100px|link=Eva_Powell|Eva Powell]]|Date= 1912-1916}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Lydia Voris Kolbe|Image = [[File:Lydia_Voris_Kolbe.jpg|100px|link=Lydia_Voris_Kolbe|Lydia Voris Kolbe]]|Date= 1916-1920}}</td> </tr></table> == '''1920 - 1930''' ==<table><tr> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Sarah Harris Rowe|Image = [[File:Sarah_Harris_Rowe.jpg|100px|link=Sarah_Harris_Rowe|Sarah Harris Rowe]]|Date= 1920-1922}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= May Cynthia Whiting Westermann|Image = [[File:May_Whiting_Westermann.jpg|100px|link=May_Cynthia_Whiting_Westermann|May Cynthia Whiting Westermann]]|Date= 1922-1926}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Georgia Hayden Lloyd-Jones|Image = [[File:Georgia_Hayden_Lloyd-Jones.jpg|100px|link=Georgia_Hayden_Lloyd-Jones|Georgia Hayden Lloyd-Jones]]|Date= 1926-1930}}</td> </tr></table> == '''1930 - 1940''' ==<table><tr> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Florence Tomlinson Meyers Wallace|Image = [[File:Florence_Tomlinson_Meyers_Wallace.jpg|100px|link=Florence_Tomlinson_Meyers_Wallace|Florence Tomlinson Meyers Wallace]]|Date= 1930}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Alice Tillotson Barney|Image = [[File:Alice_Tillotson_Barney.jpg|100px|link=Alice_Tillotson_Barney|Alice Tillotson Barney]]|Date= 1930-1933}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Eleanor V.V. Bennet|Image = [[File:Eleanor_Bennet.jpg|100px|link=Eleanor_V.V._Bennet|Eleanor V.V. Bennet]]|Date= 1933-1935}}</td> </tr></table> <table><tr><td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Helen Snyder Andres Steiner|Image = [[File:Helen_Steiner.jpg|100px|link=Helen_Snyder_Andres_Steiner|Helen Snyder Andres Steiner]]|Date= 1935-1936}}</td><td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Rheva Ott Shryock|Image = [[File:Rheva_Ott_Shryock.jpg|100px|link=Rheva_Ott_Shryock|Rheva Ott Shryock]]|Date= 1936-1940}}</td> </tr></table> == '''1940 - 1950''' ==<table><tr> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Elizabeth Bogert Schofield|Image = [[File:Elizabeth_Bogert_Schofield.jpg|100px|link=Elizabeth_Bogert_Schofield|Elizabeth Bogert Schofield]]|Date= 1940-1944}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Ruth Kadel Seacrest|Image = [[File:Ruth_Kadel_seacrest.jpg|100px|link=Ruth_Kadel_Seacrest|Ruth Kadel Seacrest]]|Date= 1944-1948}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Helena Flinn Ege|Image = [[File:Helena_Flinn_Ege.jpg|100px|link=Helena_Flinn_Ege|Helena Flinn Ege]]|Date= 1948-1952}}</td> </tr></table> == '''1950 - 1960''' ==<table><tr> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Edith Reese Crabtree|Image = [[File:Edith_Reese_Crabtree.jpg|100px|link=Edith_Reese_Crabtree|Edith Reese Crabtree]]|Date= 1952-1956}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Eleanore Goodridge Campbell|Image = [[File:Eleanore_Goodridge_Campbell.jpg|100px|link=Eleanore_Goodridge_Campbell|Eleanore Goodridge Campbell]]|Date= 1956-1960}}</td> </tr></table> == '''1960 - 1970''' ==<table><tr> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Mary Turner Whitney|Image = [[File:Mary_Turner_Whitney.jpg|100px|link=Mary_Turner_Whitney|Mary Turner Whitney]]|Date= 1960-1964}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Frances Fatout Alexander|Image = [[File:Frances_Fatout_Alexander.jpg|100px|link=Frances_Fatout_Alexander|Frances Fatout Alexander]]|Date= 1964-1968}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Louise Little Barbeck|Image = [[File:Louise_Little_Barbeck.jpg|100px|link=Louise_Little_Barbeck|Louise Little Barbeck]]|Date= 1968-1972}}</td> </tr></table> == '''1970 - 1980''' ==<table><tr> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Marian Schroeder Graham|Image = [[File:Marian_Schroeder_Graham.jpg|100px|link=Marian_Schroeder_Graham|Marian Schroeder Graham]]|Date= 1972-1976}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Jean Hess Wells|Image = [[File:Jean_Hess_Wells.jpg|100px|link=Jean_Hess_Wells|Jean Hess Wells]]|Date= 1976-1980}}</td> </tr></table> == '''1980 - 1990''' ==<table><tr> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Sally Moore Nitschke|Image = [[File:Sally_Moore_Nitschke.jpg|100px|link=Sally_Moore_Nitschke|Sally Moore Nitschke]]|Date= 1980-1984}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Marian Klingbeil Williams|Image = [[File:Marian_Klingbeil_Williams.jpg|100px|link=Marian_Klingbeil_Williams|Marian Klingbeil Williams]]|Date= 1984-1988}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Kay Smith Larson|Image = [[File:Kay_Smith_Larson.jpg|100px|link=Kay_Smith_Larson|Kay Smith Larson]]|Date= 1988-1992}}</td> </tr></table> == '''1990 - 2000''' ==<table><tr> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Juliana (J.J.) Fraser Wales|Image = [[File:Juliana_Fraser_Wales.jpg|100px|link=Juliana_Fraser_Wales|Juliana Fraser Wales]]|Date= 1992-1996}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Cathy Thompson Carswell|Image = [[File:Cathy_Thompson_Carswell.jpg|100px|link=Cathy_Thompson_Carswell|Cathy Thompson Carswell]]|Date= 1996-2000}}</td> </tr></table> == '''2000 - 2010''' ==<table><tr> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Ann Stafford Truesdell|Image = [[File:Truesdell.jpg|100px|link=Ann_Stafford_Truesdell|Ann Stafford Truesdell]]|Date= 2000-2004}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Priscilla Murphy Gerde|Image = [[File:Priscilla_Murphy_Gerde.jpg|100px|link=Priscilla_Murphy_Gerde|Priscilla Murphy Gerde]]|Date= 2004-2006}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Denise Marie Rugani|Image = [[File:Denise_Marie_Rugani.jpg|100px|link=Denise_Marie_Rugani|Denise Marie Rugani]]|Date= 2006-2010}}</td> </tr></table> == '''2010 - 2022''' ==<table><tr> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Julie Marine Leshay|Image = [[File:Julie_Marine_Leshay.jpg|100px|link=Julie_Marine_Leshay|Julie Marine Leshay]]|Date= 2010-2014}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Beth Uphoff Black|Image = [[File:Beth_Black.jpg|100px|link=Beth_Uphoff_Black|Beth Uphoff Black]]|Date= 2014 - 2018}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Gail Simpson Owen|Image = [[File:Gail_Owen_President.jpg|100px|link=Gail_Simpson_Owen|Gail Simpson Owen]]|Date= 2018 - 2022}}</td> </tr></table>