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In the larger Athens and UGA community, our members dedicated themselves to a wide range of clubs, jobs, and organizations. Billie Boswell and Carolina Pinckney were elected to executive positions in the Women in Business club through the Terry College of Business. Kate Keller was admitted into two medical fraternities, Phi Delta Epsilon and Alpha Epsilon Delta, and Mary Kate Tumelty joined Phi Sigma Epsilon, a distinguished marketing fraternity. Ella McGregor and Grace Carbonari were recently chosen to be members of the highly selective Student Alumni Council. This year, Kappa had eight gamma chis during recruitment and many more women applied to be gamma chis this year in hopes to continue this trend. Katie Ryan served as Vice President of Finance and Correspondence on this year's Panhellenic Council. Lily Nichol began a Bible study for freshmen in any sorority and helped to organize a massive worship night attended by well over 500 UGA women. Additionally, several sophomore members began a running group and ran in the Atlanta half marathon in the spring and the Ath-Half this fall. These are just a few examples of how members of the Delta Upsilon chapter strived to increase their campus and community involvement and pursue their passions.
Many women in our chapter pushed new boundaries and worked to expand their world view beyond our local community. Several of our members studied abroad in places like Oxford, The London School of Economics, Cortona, and the UNO program in Innsbruck. Additionally, Annie Lynd began to work for Turning Point USA, a conservative organization that helps students register to vote. Anne Clayton Cole was flown to New York city City to interview for the Bank of America summer internship.
For ritual this year, we performed Cutting of the Ivy in the spring as we said goodbye to the senior new member class. We performed ritual review after every chapter in the fall to prepare for Initiation. The Sunday before Initiation, we held a two-hour ritual review. The entire chapter except for the new members attended. We reviewed Kappa ritual songs, went through all the ceremonies, and reviewed chapter history. Initiation this year was attended by over 20 alumnae. It went smoothly and we initiated 76 new members. We were lucky that Founders Day fell on the same weekend as our Initiation, so there was already a heavy focus on tradition and ritual in the week leading up to Founders Day. During the chapter following Founders Day and Initiation, Katie Carr, the PR Chair, gave a more in depth presentation on our chapter history and traditions so that the newly initiated members could begin to learn about Kappa's history. Then she, along with Whitney Wallace who is the Education chair, ordered Willy's catering to celebrate Founders Day with a chapter dinner after chapter.