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Kappa continues to have a house where 17 members live. However due to the large size of our chapter we meet in a large classroom in one of our academic buildings known as "Denny."
==Highlights of 2017==
Epsilon Omega Chapter had a great start to 2017! We welcomed 29 new Kappas into our fraternity in Februrary. Although we were sad to see one of our new members transfer to North Eastern at the end of the semester, the rest of the new recruietment class has been an amazing addition to our chapter.
We started the year with philanthropy in mind when we held our annual Kappa Kisses fundraiser. We made Valentine’s Day cards, attached chocolate kisses to them, and students were able to send notes to friends. We raised a lot money for Domestic Violence Services in the area.
Our Kappas also assisted in serving a Pancake Breakfast for the local Children’s Center. It was extremely rewarding and we have continued our relationship with the coordinator there. We also sent Kappas to the Winter Carnival at North Dickinson Elementary School. The volunteers ran games, sold refreshments, and overall had an amazing, energetic afternoon! Other highlights of the spring semester include the college’s Relay for Life. Many of our sisters have witnessed the horrifying effects of cancer, so we all walked that night in letters to support them and everyone else who has battled cancer. We also participated in Run for Hope, an annual 5K event run through Dickinson College in support of Cumberland Country YWCA for Domestic Violence Prevention.
We began the new academic year volunteering for the annual 5K, Run for Steph. This is an event on campus that is very close to our hearts and helps to bring us closer together because it is in memory of a Kappa alumi. We hosted Lip Sync in October. We raised over 4000 dollars and the money and books were donated to our national philanthropy Reading is Fundamental. Our sisters continue to volunteer for Homework Club, which is an after school program at two local elementary schools. This is an incredibly rewarding and memorable experience for them, and many girls continue their volunteer work there all throughout their time at Dickinson. We also did an event this fall we called Kappacinos. We sat outside on our academic quad and handed out free coffee to all the students, faculty, and staff that walked by. We had a sign out explaining our philanthropy and asked for donations if anyone felt generous and wanted to donate. Overall, it was very fun and a great success.
We began a new award called "Supportive Sister" where the sister who is found to support the chapter the most in the month prior is given a bag of goodies and wears a very large decorated bra gifted from her sisters. This has been a fun way to recognize those who have represented Kappa well. We also have “Standards Standouts” that the standards committee nominates to reward in front of the chapter. This could be anyone who has been an exemplary student, and an exemplary Kappa. They get a little goodie bag with all fun Kappa gifts. We also have “Officer of the Month.” This is something similar where we acknowledge a girl on our chapter council who is doing her job successfully. It is nice to be recognized in your chapter and feel rewarded for the job you are doing.
A new addition to boosting moral and participation on campus is the positive point system we created. Through three separate teams; the key, the owl, and the fleur de leis, girls were given points for attending events on campus. The team with the most amount of points recieves a prize at the end of the semester.
This calendar year, our chapter has worked very hard as a community. In response to our focus letter, we have continued to implement Round Robins for the Chapter Council. In response to continuing to boost our chapter's GPA, our Vice President of Academic Excellence, has continued to encourage our sisters to improve and focus on their academics. We have continued to utilize "smartie panties" as an incentive to work hard and produce good grades that can be shared with your sisters. We have also worked on bettering the chapters understanding of the standards process through severeal different presentations in chapter. In addition, we have continued to recognize the instiutions and Kappa's hazing policies and traditions to ensure a positive experience for everyone in the organiztaion. Lastly, we have addressed chapter functioning such as increasing transperency and emphasizing the importance of wearing your letters 24/7. In result of our hard works, we have officially been removed from our focus letter. In order to maintain constant communication with our advisors and headquarters we will continue to utilize Round Robbins.
We just recently had a Kappa trainer come in and work with our leaving and coming in chapter council. It was a very productive and meaningful way for our chapter’s leaders to come together and work with each other to figure out how to better our sorority as a whole for next semester. We spoke about ways to positively run recruitment and ensure we give bids to the best possible group of girls next semester. In addition to the leadership transitioning we have decided to go paperless and transferred our binders into Google Docs. Each position has their own gmail with the information needed to function in their role on chapter council.
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