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→The Early Years (Excerpted from The History of Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity: 1870-1976)
Probably the best-remembered member of Delta Sigma is the late Mary Ann Stewart, who was killed in a plane accident the year after her graduation. She won numerous awards and honors on campus, and was president of the chapter in 1962-63. A scholarship providing money for fees to a deserving student was established in her honor. Mary Ann's younger sister, Nancy, was an outstanding accounting student, served as treasurer when the move was made into the new house, and was president of the chapter in 1969-1970.
==Highlights of the 1980’s==
Throughout the 80’s there were a few events that Delta Sigma participated in each year. In the fall, we held Dad’s day. In 1980 our theme for Dad’s Day was “A day with Dad – Two-step in Style” where we were able to have a luncheon at the house with our dads followed by taking them to go watch a Cowboys football game. We also always participated in homecoming where we paired up with a fraternity to decorate a house deck. In 1980 we paired with Lambda Chi Alpha and our theme was “The Saturday afternoon Pokes”. Every year we also had a Big/Little Slumber party where the new members received their big sisters from the sophomore pledge class and had an owl pal that was usually a junior or senior. In the Spring, we held a Mom’s Day with themes like Wined and Dined where we had a luncheon with our moms and a silent auction. We also participated in fraternity philanthropy events like Sigma Chi Derby Days and Sigma Phi Epsilon “SigEp SuperStars”.
Every year the Greek community puts on shows in which sororities and fraternities compete to see who has the best singing and dancing skills. For the Freshman this is called follies and in 1981 the freshman of Delta Sigma chapter paired with the freshman of Farmhouse. The shows that the whole chapter participate in are called Varsity revue and Spring Sing. In 1983, we paired with Delta Tau Delta for Varsity Revue where we won best song and choreography and placed second overall. In 1981, we paired with Delta Chi for Spring Sing.
During these years we also won many awards at the provincial conference such as the gracias living award, scholarship award for highest GPA in province, award of excellence in chapter and house board, and the standards award. We also won many awards on campus such as The Dean Patchin Award for Outstanding Sorority, top chapter grades, and outstanding pledge class.
During 1980-1984 the Delta Sigma chapter was continuously growing and by 1984 we had more active members than our house could hold. For that year we had 94 house contracts with only 83 spaces for girls to live. The solution was that seniors would live out of the house until the house board could figure out how we would be able to fit all active members in the house. After long debate, it was decided that the basement would be remodeled in bedrooms. The old coke rom was turned into a four-girl room and the old study hall was turned into a new eight-girl room. They also turned a storage room into a bathroom for the girls living in these new rooms to use. The house board also did not stop there! They also remodeled the laundry room and bought all new washers and dryers for the members to use and the dinge hallway was turned into a lounge, giving the girls in the house more space to hang out together.
A significant event that happened in the Stillwater community in 1984 was that one of the other sorority houses on campus caught on fire. It happened during a thunderstorm. The house was struck by lightning and from what some of alumni remember there were some girls that were injured because they were on the phone at the time the house was hit. To help these girls out we collected donations for things they lost or things that were damaged in the fire. We collected things like shirts, jeans, shoes and toiletries to give them. We even had some girls stay with us while their house was being repaired.
==Highlights of the 1990’s==
As usual at Oklahoma State University, Delta Sigma was very involved and excited for Homecoming events during the 1990’s. The university theme for homecoming in 1998 was “Spirit Cowboy Style” and we paired with Phi Delta Theta winning several awards including Parade Marshall’s Cup for top parade entry, first place in Harvest Carnival, first place Greek float, and first place for overall spirit. In 1999 the campus celebrated homecoming with the theme “Timeless Tradition” and we paired up with Sigma Phi Epsilon for the weeks event. We placed first in the blood drive and safety award, second in the Harvest Carnival and fourth in house decoration.
Delta Sigma steadily remained a very social chapter on campus with Panhellenic and IFC groups. Throughout the 90’s we paired up annually with Kappa Alpha Theta for a “Kites and Keys” event and Pi Beta Phi for a “Monmouth Duo” semi-formal.
One special event that happened in the year of 1990-1991 was that we received a new house mother named Paul McGee. Paul designed clothes for Hollywood movie star’s children and the chapter described her as a sweet, motherly type. She was a mother of 6 sons so she loved the change of living in a house full of ladies.
Delta Sigma has a for philanthropy and in 1998 and 1999 during philanthropy day of recruitment we shared this love with potential new members by making food care packages for the needy and in Stillwater. Delta Sigma continued to stay involved with “The Big Event” on the Oklahoma State campus throughout the 1990’s. This is a community wide service event and in 1999 the Kappas were sent to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame to do “spring cleaning” which included organizing their library, constructing shelves and hanging plaques of Wrestling Hall inductees.
After recognizing in 1999 the need to raise our chapter GPA, we took very positive steps towards improving our academic performance including mandatory study hours for all members and the addition of four new computers (two of which had internet access) in our study room.
==Highlights of the 2000’s==
Throughout the early 2000’s Delta Sigma promoted philanthropy with different events raising money for The Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation, RIF, The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and others. For many years throughout the 2000’s our spring philanthropy remained Kappa Kindness Week where we shared random acts of kindness to other Greek Chapters on campus. Our fall philanthropy on the other hand continued to evolved. In 2006 we started a new fall philanthropy of Kappa-Kickoff and extended this to include men in 2007. In 2009 our fall philanthropy migrated to a Kappa Cookout event where we served hotdogs and cookies. This event then evolved to Kappa Con Queso in 2011 and proved to be a success.
Homecoming consistently stayed an important tradition on the Oklahoma State Campus and for Delta Sigma. We always enjoy meeting members of many different chapters on campus through these events and continue to be top contenders for the house decoration competition as well as Harvest Carnival each year. In 2008 the theme for homecoming “Generation Cowboy, Just Do It” and we were teamed up with the men of Phi Gamma Delta. Delta Sigma also stays involved with other campus wide and Greek life events such as Relay for Life, Varsity Revenue, Dance Marathon, Freshman Follies and more. In 2009 Delta Sigma participated in Relay for Life and raised the second largest amount of money for the event. In the years of 2007, 2008 and 2009 we also received the Dean Patchin’s Outstanding Scholarship Award during the Greek Awards Banquet.
On top of philanthropy and campus events, Delta Sigma remains a very social chapter on campus holding many events with different Panhellenic and IFC chapters throughout the years. In 2009 one large event we held was called “The Olympics” which our event chairman planned with the women of Kappa Alpha Theta, the men of Beta Theta Pi, and the men of Sigma Phi Epsilon. Throughout the 2000’s Kappa has also kept their tradition of a “Monmouth Duo” social with the women of Pi Beta Phi. An event we held with multiple other chapters in Greek Life in 2010 was “What Used to be Cool” – we did this event with Alpha Chi Omega, Phi Delta Theta, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon. We also involved our families in events by holding both Mom and Dad’s Weekends separately and we had chairs that planned each of the events. For Mom’s day we always had a silent auction and luncheon and on Dad’s Day we had a luncheon and attended a football game.
It became clear in the early 2000’s that Greek Life was getting more popular at Oklahoma State as our new member classes continued to grow. Our classes grew from 49 new members in 2008, 57 new members in 2010 and up to 72 in 2011. In 2011 Panhellenic added a new sorority (AOPi) on campus to balance this growth.
In January of 2009 our chapter was presented with a focus letter and our chapter council began implementing many changes leading to a refocus letter at the end of that year. Unfortunately, in 2010 we had not improved as much as necessary and our chapter was placed on probation. Although this was seen as a challenge in the beginning, the Delta Sigma chapter came together and worked to improve our chapter as a whole. In order to do so we held monthly sisterhood event to promote unity and trained our officers from scratched to ensure every officer understands her job requirements. In 2011 we learned of our warning of probation which was a big step towards no longer being on probation.
==Highlights of 2012==