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==Highlights of 2019==
This August Epsilon Lambda welcomed home 92 new members to our chapter, which is our largest pledge class we have ever taken. We have achieved many goals this calendar year such as raising our chapter GPA and advancing from 10/ 13 in the village to 7/13 in the village. This advancement could not have been done without our amazing VPAE, Katelyn Robinson. Katelyn has implemented many things throughout her time as VPAE and has helped us as a chapter achieve our goals of becoming better students in our classes.
This year Epsilon Lambda has participated, and won many philanthropy events throughout the Greek community. In the spring we participated in SAE’s Paddy Murphy week and AOPi’s strike out arthritis kickball tournament and placed first in both of these events. As for our own chapter philanthropy events, we volunteer weekly at THRIVE a multiple locations to help under privileged children complete different homework assignments such as math and reading that goes hand in hand with our national philanthropy, Reading Is Fundamental. We also competed in the All Campus Events All Sing partnered with Sigma Kappa and took home first place. In April of 2019 we competed in All Campus Events Big Orange Beat partnered with Tri Delta and took home first place again. This year has been filled with many events and competitions that we as a chapter have loved participating in. It has been such a rewarding year for Epsilon Lambda!
We celebrated our fraternity’s Founder’s Day with a brunch at The Standard in downtown Knoxville. Many alumnae were in attendance and we were able to hold our annual Founders Day ceremony for the chapter and new members. In November we successfully initiated 90 new members and welcomed them into the sisterhood of Kappa Kappa Gamma. During inspiration period we were able to hold a dinner for the whole chapter at The Press Room in downtown Knoxville and celebrate the new members as they were about to be officially welcomed into our chapter.
'''Philanthropy'''
This year our amazing philanthropy chair, Avery Kraus, introduced a new spring philanthropy event to the chapter and Greek community. The spring event was a mac and cheese bar that we called “Mac and Keys.” This event benefitted our local philanthropy, THRIVE. In the fall we held our annual Kappa Kolor Wars event. KKW is an obstacle course event that involved different courses involving paint. At the end we have a dodgeball tournament for the sororities and fraternities that participated in the event. Since we do not support March of Dimes as our local philanthropy anymore both of these events benefitted THRIVE. We were able to donate money towards philanthropy events that we were unable to participate in such as Kappa Delta’s annual golf tournament, and Phi Kappa Tau’s philanthropy week. Overall this year for philanthropy has been so fun and rewarding for us as a chapter.
All Epsilon Lambda meetings are held in the Chapter Room of our beautiful house.
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