Changes
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In December we hosted our annual Scholarship Dessert where we invite our professors to attend, five members were chosen to receive scholarship awards for their academic excellence, each girl was awarded five hundred dollars for their great achievements. Throughout the year there has been great involvement in philanthropic events, including setting up tables at "Phantom in the Park" in the fall as well as "Peter Rabbit in the park" in the Spring, which involved cookie decorating for the children in our community. Members also took place in the women’s resource center's "Run for Congo women" in the spring. We also helped with the "Kick it for Krissy" event setting up a booth there as well, all donations go to Krissy’s family, a local five year old who was recently diagnosed with Leukemia. As a whole KKG helped the owner of Fairview Cemetery to do his Spring-cleaning, and had the annual "Reading is Key" at the Canton Library, which included reading to children as well as doing arts and crafts.
Over the past year, St. Lawrence University has revised the sorority and fraternity recruitment policies. Our chapter benefited from this change during fall rush. Our chapter currently has fifty-five active members and we are currently planning spring recruitment. As St. Lawrence has recently been increasing the size of incoming freshmen class this will also be beneficial to us as we know the chapter will continue to maintain its size or even grow even larger in the future.
==Highlights of 2015==
The Beta Beta Deuteron chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma is located on 45 East Main Street in Canton , NY . Although our chapter is smaller in comparison to other Kappa chapters, we currently have 51 initiated members, 35 of whom live in the house, filling the entire house, which is the largest private house in the St. Lawrence county. We are a very close and supportive group of girls who play an active role both inside and outside of the house. While many girls hold positions in our Chapter Council, Kappa Kappa Gamma has a strong presence in the community with involvement in other activities including sports teams, on campus and off campus jobs and leaders of clubs and organizations. We currently have seven girls involved in athletic teams including squash, basketball, riding and alpine ski team. We have three girls involved in the St. Lawrence Panhellenic Council and others who hold leadership positions in Thelomathesian Society, our school government.
As a sorority, we love to stay involved in the community and help give back in anyway possible. This past fall we participated in numerous philanthropic events as a group. During Make-a-Difference-Day, we went out in small groups to houses around the community and helped them with yard work or tasks that needed to be accomplished. St. Lawrence also puts on Shawna’s Walk for Wishes, which is a fundraising event/walk for a young girl in the community struggling with a metabolic disease. All of the sisters attended the event and walked around the track with other participants in order to raise money for Shawna. Kappa Kappa Gamma also had a table at the event where people could come to talk, eat candy or get their nails painted by one of the girls. Additionally, small groups volunteered weekly at the local soup kitchen where we helped prepare meals for homeless people in the community. Going to the soup kitchen involved working with other town members in cooking, cleaning and serving to those less fortunate. Some sisters were also involved in volunteer clubs such as SLU Buddies and Reading Buddies. These programs involve St. Lawrence students pairing up with younger kids at the local schools and attending their after school programs essentially as a reading tutor and/or someone to just talk with and get to know. At the end of the semester, the school events put together a Study-a-Thon prior to exams week. The sisters took turns attending to help facilitate the event along with other sororities and fraternities. Collectively, the girls thoroughly enjoy participating in philanthropic events at our school and in surrounding areas. As a sisterhood, we want to be there for each other as well as our community and feel that through our involvement, we positively impact others.
At the end of every semester, our academic excellence chairman puts on an award ceremony for academic achievements. At the ceremony, girls are acknowledged for their academic achievements and scholarships are given by the Beta Beta Alumnae Association to those who applied and were chosen by a alumnae committee. Kappa Kappa Gamma is tight-knit sisterhood and through our special events and traditions, we celebrate one another’s achievements and successes.
The house puts on other special events throughout the year including our holiday dinner around Christmas time and our senior dinner, which is put on for our graduating sisters at the end of every year. The Alumnae Association also sponsors a special brunch for the seniors during Senior Week. Additionally, we hold a parents weekend brunch where parents are invited to get a tour of the house and meet other families.
The Beta Beta Deuteron Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma represents a strong sense of loyalty, passion and dedication to our sisterhood, our community and one another. We strive to empower and motivate each another to be the best sisters and community members we can be. Our Chapter represents a strong knit sisterhood filled with unique and powerful women who strive to put their best foot forward in everyway possible. As a sisterhood, we overcome challenges both personal and worldwide through our strong loving support and care for one another.
Although there has been a decline in the number of girls interested in Greek life on campus, it has not negatively impacted our chapter. We received 13 new members in the fall and have more girls interested in spring rush. Our chapter is continuing to grow with new girls who are dedicated and committed to joining our sisterhood.
==Highlights of 2020s:==