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==The Early YearsEstablishment and Installation of Zeta Omicron==
As early as 1906, university guidelines prohibited the establishment of sororities, but in 1985, the students voted to establish national sororities. In October 1985 a panel of faculty, administrators and students interviewed nine National Panhellenic Conference groups, and six were chosen to colonize: Kappa Kappa Gamma, Kappa Alpha Theta, Delta Delta Delta, Pi Beta Phi, Chi Omega and Delta Gamma. On February 6, 1987, colonization teams from these groups arrived on campus to spend a week entertaining, informing and getting to know more than 600 women who had signed interest forms. In a unique undertaking in the Panhellenic world, 540 women donned pledge pins and installations occurred the weekend of May 2-4, 1987. Fraternity president Marian Klingbeil Williams presided over the installation services for Zeta Omicron chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma. The installation of six women's Greek groups at the University of Richmond was a landmark event not only on this campus but nationwide.
Fraternity President Marian Klingbeil Williams, Θ - Missouri, presided at installation services for Zeta Omicron Chapter. Assisting her were Rebecca Stone Arbour, ΔI – LSU, director of alumnae; Cynthia McMillan Lanford, ΓΠ - Alabama, director of membership; and Marjorie Matson Converse, ΓΔ - Purdue, Fraternity extension chairman. June Miller Mohr, ΓΔ - Purdue, served as installation chairman assisted by Sue Curry Whitaker, I – DePauw and Mimi Stein Morton, Y – Northwestern, the coordinator of chapter development for this new chapter. Also instrumental in the success of the weekend were Colleen Blough, ΔO – Iowa State, Mary Clarke, ΔZ - Colorado College and Lisa Temple, ΓΞ - UCLA.Over the weekend more than 200 Kappas gathered with the new members, their families and friends capping off the affair with the Installation Banquet held at the historic Commonwealth Club in downtown Richmond.
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