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This year our new members participated in Epsilon Mu's first ever New Member retreat! Accompanied by our chapter council officers and some upperclassman volunteers, our 89 new members enjoyed a fun filled, relaxing weekend full of games and bonding activities in the mountains of North Carolina at Keystone summer camp. This was an awesome opportunity for our girls to get to know one another and begin building relationships and making memories that they will carry with them the rest of their lives!
Our chapter celebrated Founders Day this year with a large celebration dinner and ceremony. We gathered at a local venue and enjoyed some delicious food, quality conversation, and a few meaningful words from Blake Bernard, our Education Chair, as well as some Epsilon Mu alumnae and mothers. This has become one of our chapter's favorite evenings because we get to celebrate Kappa Kappa Gamma a recognize that the bonds that brought us together will keep us together now and for years to come!
Our chapter is an extremely close knit group of women, including both active members and alumnae. This year our Chapter Council advisor, Susan Jezek, put together an entire board of advisors to assist our chapters leaders, providing guidance and advice, enabling them to lead our chapter to the best of their ability. This advisory board was an enormous success and we look forward to the things our chapter council will be able to accomplish with such a great resource. It is because of this that our chapter received the Alumni Development award for the past year.
In June of 2019, one of our most recent alumnae, Morgan Nichols, won Miss South Carolina at the competition in Columbia, SC. Her passion for her social initiative platform, Stronger With STEM, which promotes career development for women in the life sciences, technology, and mathematics, was started right here in Clemson where she studied genetics. We cheered her on in the Miss America pageant on December 19th! Campus has been growing rapidly throughout the last few years with the grand opening of the Douthit Hills facility and the new College of Business building well under way, scheduled to open for classes in Fall of 2020. The atmosphere at Clemson remains the same, including the flood of Tiger Pride that sweeps in every Saturday of the fall semester to watch our Tigers play. Clemson won the National Championship in January, making us the reigning champs going into this years playoffs. Greek Life at Clemson continues to thrive, however sadly our friends in Kappa Alpha Theta did lose their charter in Spring 2019. In response to this, Panhellenic create an expansion committee to look into the possibility of chartering a new chapter in the coming years! The Epsilon Mu chapter remains a close knit group of strong, outgoing women who act as leaders all across Clemson's campus. '''Philanthropy''' This year, through multiple events and fundraisers, such as our 2nd annual donut eating contest, Krispy Kreme Grabbers, a silent auction at Parents Cocktail, and Reading is Key at the local elementary school, our chapter supported the Epsilon Mu Scholarship Foundation, Reading is Fundamental, the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation, and various other foundations. Krispy Kreme Grabbers nearly tripled its total from the year prior and nearly $2,000 was raised at the silent auction.
In Epsilon Mu, we pride ourselves in empowering our members to support the causes that they are passionate about. That being said, this year we incorporated almost 10 new events into our normal schedule to help raise money for different organizations that our members are involved in.
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