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This past year has been unforgettable and exceptionally successful for the Delta Omega Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma.This past spring of 2018 we did not undergo a spring recruitment, however in the fall Kappa roped in 25 new members.Our philanthropy chairman, Danielle Rowland put on two amazing philanthropies along with assistance from the whole chapter. In Spring we had Kappa Olympics along with grilled cheese with KKG’s. The spring philanthropy made $3,210, $1,250 went to our national charity, Reading is Fundamental or RIF, $1,460 was donated to the kappa foundation and $500 to Reading Heart. In the fall Danielle put on Kappa softball where all the fraternities had a tournament at a local elementary school. We made a little over $3,300 again in fall and split that money up again with RIF, Reading Heart and our local charity of Stone Soup. In November of 2018, fires broke out in Paradise California, they are also known as Camp Fire. This tragedy affected thousands of people, losing their homes and precious town. It also affected many girls within the Delta Omega chapter, they had family and friends lose an abundance of belongings. Kappa Kappa Gamma donated clothes, food, books, baby cribs, toys anything that we could and shipped it over to Paradise, CA. We also participated in Kids Day as we do every year and raised over $1,200 in one morning for the Valley Children's hospital and the foundation. Aside from our own personal accomplishments we also attended and participated in multiple fraternity philanthropies. Delta Omega took first place in Sigma Chi derby days where we raised roughly around $2,700 for Children's Hospital, we also donated many books, toys and clothing that go both to the patients and their families. We also won Sigma Alpha Epsilon philanthropy which the proceeds also went to the Children’s Hospital. In fall we also participated in Sigma Phi Epsilon's Queen of Hearts Philanthropy where we nearly raised $3,000 for the boys and girls club by either donating money ourselves, getting coin donations and donating clothes and other material. That philanthropy is one of Delta Omega’s proudest moments, we did not win overall, however we did raise the most money which in the end is all that matters because we got to make a huge difference in multiple children's lives. Many other events such as Sigma Nu softball, Delta Sig powder puff and Lambda Chi volleyball we all participated in within our chapter and we had so much joy attending and raising money for the charities. Throughout this year our Standards committee has put on multiple sisterhood events in order to promote sisterhood. Some events included: T-shirt cutting for football games, poster events for philanthropies, Broomball on the ice skating rink and much more. Madison Mackin did a great job as Vice President of Standards and always tried to put on fun and exciting events for the chapter. Our sister Hallie Brown attended the Kappa Leadership Academy in Ohio where she learned different leadership skills to bring back to the Delta Omega Chapter. Sarah and Emily Kneeland were rewarded scholarships through kappa. Many of our sisters achieved above a 3.14 and were recognized at badge day, also out chapter achieved top grades for the 3rd time in a row out of the 5 houses in the panhellenic community. We are all immensely proud of our excellence this past year in philanthropies, sisterhood, and scholarships. California State University, Fresno has been urging alcohol awareness amongst college students throughout this past year in order for students to understand the dangers of alcohol. We have had multiple speakers come to out chapter to speak on behalf of alcohol, mental health awareness, self harm and sisterhood. Our Risk management Mikaela Turnipseed did a great job at keeping us aware and expanding our knowledge on all these topics. The Delta Omega chapter holds chapter meetings in our Kappa Kappa Gamma house on campus every Monday night. This is a facility we own. We are very gracious that this facility was just recently renovated in the summer.Throughout this past year, we have been extremely successful, which we are very proud of. We only hope to grow and seek out more success in the future, our chapter is one that leads by example and has a great unity within, the goals we set for 2018 are the same for the following years and only hope to improve. Kappa Kappa Gamma can not wait to see what the 2019 year will hold for our chapter.