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In the fall, our chapter celebrated its 5th birthday, and we welcomed 28 new girls in our Eta class. We increased our philanthropy efforts exponentially by volunteering weekly at a bilingual preschool in DC and reading to the students there.
Despite efforts by the university to suppress Greek life, membership numbers are growing and chapters are gaining public recognition from other on campus groups. The chapter has a high morale at the moment and is excited to welcome back 20+ girls who were studying abroad during the fall semester.
==Highlights of 2019==
This year Eta Tau chapter was driven philanthropic and full of fun sisterhood events.
Philanthropy: Our philanthropy hit a sky high this year. Our very own sister, Callia Karas, celebrated her second annual hoyaTHON, a 12 hour non-profit event that most of our chapter attended! Through different events such as Valentines with the Veterans, RIF trips reading to children, hoyaTHON, Relay for Life, Sig Ep 5k, Girls on the Run, and many more fun philanthropy events, our chapter completed over 1,094.5 service hours.
Sisterhood events: We spent a lot of time bonding at fun sisterhood events. One Also, two our sisters taught workout classes, free for all Kappas to attend. Together we sang fun karaoke, celebrated Georgetown Day, St.Patrick's Day, and Homecoming, and hosted 4 extremely fun formals, all encouraging fun sisterhood bonding! To close out the year, we finished with Kappa secret santa that instilled our members with holiday spirit.
Academics: Our chapter has also ben academically excellent this year. Our fabulous education chair has hosted multiple Kappa alumnae panelsandcareer panels. Our awesome VPAE has booked us endless study rooms,hosted us for First Bake as a study break, and provided awesome study tips. She also really promoted Kappas helping Kappas. She created a mentor/mentee system within our chapter based on majors/minors to help when registration is happening. She also hosted a resume peer-reviewing workshop.
Recruitment: We received 40 new members hailing from across the globe, all with unique different backgrounds and passions. They have added so much to our chapter already. We held an awesome BidDay on a rooftop apartment, overlooking the skyline of Washington, DC, and had an awesome Big/Little reveal at a cool bowling alley! They successfully completed their new member meetings and online EME with positive energy and enthusiasm. We held a beautiful initiation, formally welcoming them as full Kappa Kappa Gamma members. We cannot wait to see their future in Kappa.
Chapter Council: Chapter Council of 2018-2019 lead our chapter with an excitement and innovation that is truly contagious. They have spearheaded bigger and better things for our chapter, and we are forever thankful for their passion, spirit, and drivenness for our chapter. Our chapter has elected outstanding, qualified members for Chapter Council 2019-2020, and we are so excited to see everything the have in store for Eta Tau over this next year.
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