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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.
==Highlights of 2015==
2015 has been an amazing year for the Delta Tau chapter, filled with exciting events, proud accomplishments, and growing sisterhood bonds. The 2015 Chapter Council members’ hard work throughout the year brought our house to new exciting heights and we are looking forward to the new 2016 Chapter Council continuing on that trend. As we sat down last January as a Chapter, we decided our goals for 2015 would be to emphasize our sisterhood, make sure our chapter was on top of our organization, and most importantly, emphasize our rituals and our heritage.
As I asked around the house what the girls’ most memorable moments of 2015 were, most of the girls said our sisterhoods, which made warmed our hearts. From our annual Disneyland event (which was last Monday), to pumpkin carving, to Stella and Dot Trunkshows (and many many other trunkshows with matching sister bracelets to prove it!), to Bridesmaids movie nights in the TV room, to ice cream socials with our sister sorority Theta and then AGD, to everyone’s favorite, our USC game-day sisterhood, complete with face-painting, USC spirited food and dance parties., we were so proud of the way our chapter has bonded together. Our Chapter Council felt that the increased number of sisterhoods truly brought our house a little bit closer together and emphasized the value of sisterhood and friendship within our house, which was so important to us, especially for the new members to see. Lastly, we emphasized ritual in everything we did this year. From our daily ritual reviews during Inspiration Week, to our frequent ritual events throughout the semester, we made sure that every member understood Kappa Kappa Gamma’s rituals, definitions, and history. Our Founder’s Day complete with a new schedule was a success and we were especially pleased to have local alumni come celebrate our founders! We had one of our highest attendances to date, and everyone enjoyed the night especially since we ended the night with a sweet surprise of Kappa themed cake and cupcakes!
Along with that, this year, we have made it our mission to be meticulously on top of organization for our chapter. Due to our chapter increasing our organization, from our President’s weekly fliers with all the important dates, to our Vice President of Organization’s superior calendar, we have felt that our chapter has been more aware and therefore, more involved. Also, we have been packing our calendars with our favorite events such as fraternity philanthropies, our Father Daughter tailgate and racing event in September, and our sister sorority socials! Our chapter has been very involved on the row and participated in many fraternity philanthropies including 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 Heidi Johnson, the founder of Charity Matters, everyone walked away extremely impressed and newly motivated to incorporate charity into their daily lives! Apparently, the professors were so impressed and because of that Heidi has received an outpour of emails asking her to come speak in their own classes to continue to share her inspiring story. We were so happy that Heidi Johnson was able to show USC what Kappa Kappa Gamma emphasizes and how important our philanthropies are to us.
The Delta Tau chapter had a fantastic 2015, and we are all looking forward to making 2016 just as successful. With our new class of leaders coming into their positions, especially with Meg Jenson, who was previously our Vice President of Standards, we are all very excited to make a difference in our house and continue on this amazing upward trend we experienced in 2016. We are more motivated than ever to continue showing Delta Tau's true potential to prove 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. 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.
Chapter Philanthropy:
What organization(s) has your chapter historically/traditionally raised money for, or donated hours to, in your community?
This year, Delta Tau raised money for Reading is Fundamental, Girl’s Academy, The Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation and the Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust. In February we held our “Kappa Kickball Philanthropy” created by our philanthropy chair Christina Rouse. The anticipation of the competitive kickball matches brought out more attendees than we have ever had all to support Delta Tau. We raised money for our philanthropy from the houses signing up to compete and from the additional sale of shirts. We are extremely proud of this successful event. Additionally, we have raised over two thousand dollars for the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation through all of our sisterhood trunkshows, which was very unexpected, so we are extremely happy about all of our efforts!
Also in February , 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! We loved taking the initiative to make a difference within our own community and seeing how our efforts paid off within their garden they created only a few miles from campus!
Why did your chapter choose this organization(s) to support?
We continued our tradition of supporting Reading is Fundamental and Girls Academy, since they are both two organizations we strongly believe in supporting. Additionally, we chose to support Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust, through our mother-daughter event, since improving our community around us and improving life for Los Angeles citizens is near and dear to our hearts.
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