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Our chapter supports the Reading Is Key organization in our local community and actively aims to apply and recognize the value of reading to the future of children and adults alike. Every year we volunteer at local elementary schools to read and craft with the students and leave them with a book to take home and start a personal library.
==Highlights of 2016==
The start of 2016 was an exciting year for the Zeta Pi chapter. During our January term our President (Kira Hughes) and our Membership Chairman (Morgan Clifford) were in Belize doing research on the “Richness and Abundance of Marine Species Before and After Seagrass Disturbance off the West Coast of Tabacco Caye in Belize”. The chapter hosted its annual Kappa Casino on January 23rd with amazing raffle items donated by sisters like, pre-season Seahawk tickets, pod floats, and wine baskets. We were able to COB two girls (Paula Schneider. and Ashley Smith), and they joined Kelly for Initiation in April.
Spring semester was a thriving and exciting time for the Chapter as well. The ladies were excited to have our 3rd annual Sapphire Ball on February 27th held at the Center of the Park. The chapter held its first book drive and we received around 200 books from our local community. As well participated in a campus clean-up to help make our campus a better place to live. During our spring semester sisters went and volunteered at some of our local elementary schools for Dr. Seuss’s Birthday and read to the kids some of their favorite Dr. Seuss books. As a chapter, we went to Woodrow Wilson Elementary School and read Tom Sawyer with the fifth-grade class. There was a trail mix that the students got to make while reading about the adventures of Tom Sawyer.The ladies of Zeta Pi participated in the international badge attire day, held by Greek Council. The ladies also participated in Relay for Life on campus and raised around 50 dollars for their Kiss Away Cancer sign that participants donated 25 cents for each Kiss. During the spring production of Dido and Aeneas our sister Abi Hass was the lead role in the Opera.
In April, our chapter participated in Derby Days held by the brothers of Sigma Chi. We helped the brothers raise around 4,000 dollars for the Huntsman Cancer Foundation. This was the first year since 2008 that Kappa Kappa Gamma won the Derby Day challenges, and the brothers then donated 800 dollars to our philanthropy Reading is Fundamental. April was an exciting month for not only winning Derby Days but many of the ladies received positions for the upcoming school year. Kira was elected as ASCI Secretary, our Treasurer (Reanna Vanacore) was given the position of Village Manager. VPS (Anabel Keller), Education & Registrar Chairman (Coree Gibson) and Melanie Miller were given Resident Assistance positions for the upcoming year. Angel Yebra our Philanthropy Chairman gained the role of Lead Advocate, the Advocates are a group of students that go through 100 plus hours of training to deal with all kinds of situations, and is another resource for the students on campus. Melanie also received Greek Newcomer award given to a new member of the Greek community at The College of Idaho. We held our annual Kites and Keys social in the Oasis this year with tacos and fun conversations. At our scholarship banquet our VPAE (Hailey Chambers) received the pearl for having a 4.0 GPA.
As the school year came to an end there was still some exciting events happening around campus. Kira, Morgan, Reanna and Lacey Wayment presented research at the Student Research conference held on campus and Kirby Roberts showed her “Under the Sea” art work in the Rosenthal gallery, as part of her Senior project. With the end of the school year meant the end of the 125th celebration of The College of Idaho, also having to say goodbye to eight seniors, Marabie Barck, Christina Viveros, Aishia Anderson, Sarah Hazen, Tory Emerick, Mavji Rahimshoeva, Lacey and Kirby. We also said goodbye to 3 actives that transferred to different universities.
During our summer vacation our Kappa ladies went on awesome adventures, partook in internships, and volunteered in our communities. Our VPO (Deena Merrill) and Abi went to China at the beginning of summer for a school choir trip. Our Event and Risk Management Chairman (Paula) went to Scotland for a study abroad trip with our school. Kira attended Convention held in San Diego where Zeta Pi received an Honorable Mention for the Standards Award from the headquarters. Bridget Kernan had an internship at a legal office, where her supervisor was Attorney Ellen Smith, who is a University of Idaho Kappa alum.
With the start of a new school year brought about changes on our campus as well. One of our oldest dorms on campus, Voorhees Hall, is being renovated and should be completed by the end of January 2017. The campus is also experiencing the building of our new Cruzen-Murray Library which is set to be completed in January of 2018. All these changes on campus made us excited for the new changes in our chapter as well, through fall recruitment we were able to give bids to six lovely ladies, Katie Carns, Jade Green, Isabela Lete, Shanna Madsen-Stowman, Quin McLaughlin and Jess Meyer. The start of the new school year also brought up the start of a new club, Women’s Lacrosse. Anabel, Shanna, and Shelby Robinson played a key role in being the founding members of this new club sport. This school year is the first year of Rotary Club on our campus and Isabel, Coree and Shelby have participated in service projects around the campus as well as the Caldwell community.
During this school year, there are currently four sisters serving on our campus Student Senate (Anabel, Melanie, Morgan and Angel) as well as having three sisters as tutors in History (Melanie), French (Anabel) and Biology (Hailey). Shelby participated in this year’s Leadership Academy that took place in Ohio. The Zeta Pi chapter participated with the national anti-hazing campaign, and posted photos on our social media outlets. At the beginning of October our sister Bridget put on a program called behind the badge to show the campus and the community that there are more to our Campus Safety officers then just being there to unlock your door. Anabel and Melanie joined another new organization on campus called Phi Alpha Theta which is the scholastic honor society for history majors. We had two sisters participate in Sigma Chi’s Miss C of I, which was Disney themed this year, Deena received runner up, and our New Member Chairman Ashley Smith received Miss Congeniality as well as first place.
We had a wonderful time celebrating Founders Day with the Boise Valley Alumni Association. The chapter celebrated Founders Day in-between Kappa’s National Founders Day and our chapters Founders Day. The chapter combined Founders Day with Parents Brunch to allow families an opportunity to get to know more about Kappa. Zeta Pi held initiation for the 6 ladies on November 11th. Throughout the fall semester we have had sisters go to different research conferences to present their work. Hailey and Tanisha Khurana attended the Murdock College Science Research Program in Spokane Washington, and Megan Phelps presented a poster at the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego. On November 18th Hailey preformed at her Senior Piano Recital.
As winter starts to dawn on campus the cheer of the holidays got everyone through finals. This semester the ladies of Zeta Pi went to Woodrow Wilson Elementary to read Peter Pan with the third-grade classes and they got to make their own magical trail mix. With our Kappa Giving Tree this year we helped 25 families have a better Christmas Experience. Our school hosted its 4th annual tree lighting ceremony, where the campus voted on a student that spreads light and cheer around campus to be the one to light the tree and they chose our sister Melanie.
Over the course of 2016 the ladies have participated in around 400 plus hours of community service not only on campus but reaching out to the community as well. The chapter went to Wilson Elementary for our Reading is Key events, allowing the students to keep the books to add to their personal libraries in hopes to keep them engaged in reading as they go through school.
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