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Our new home allowed us to have an amazing Initiation, as well as an amazing Founder’s Day. For our Founder’s Day this year we had a ceremony October 6, 2019, due to Canadian Thanksgiving during our real Founder’s Day. The ceremony took place at our new house, where alums and actives all came together to enjoy the day. We had coffee, desserts and fruit platters to share. We also pulled old artifacts, such as a scrapbook dating back to 1930, when our Chapter was born.
==Highlights of 2020==
At the beginning of Winter 2020, we held a game night and donut sisterhood event, and two successful mixers! Following the announcement of Covid-19 in March, all other philanthropic and social events were unfortunately cancelled, including out LC visit and Sapphire Ball. Meetings were moved to a virtual platform, and we still held a senior sister send off over Zoom.
Over the summer, to keep us all connected during quarantine, our VPS held sisterhood Saturdays that continued into the fall. One of our actives also started a Kappa Bookclub during the summer and into the beginning of Fall. Our Chapter created Covid Check-in Groups for the actives, so everyone could feel comfortable asking questions and reporting any break outs of the virus around the Chapter.
Throughout the semester, study rallies were held to help the transition to virtual university, and weekly virtual study sessions were also held. Meetings continued online in the Fall, and we started doing Committee Night in place of one meeting per month so that actves could have more opportunities to be included and participate in Chapter activities during the pandemic.
[[File:KKG Delta Delta 2020.jpeg|thumb|Delta Delta, McGill, hosting a virtual chapter event following restrictions brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.]]
Our Chapter was the first in Alpha District to conduct virtual recruitment and initiation with much success, we were lucky to welcome pledge class Eta, 18 wonderful women, with bid day welcome videos and a virtual bid day speed dating event. Big-Little reveal was conducted over Instagram with a gossip girl theme!
The week of the Sesquicentennial was also our Chapter’s I-Week, which gave our chapter the opportunity to celebrate our new members, the future of our chapter, as well as older members’ experiences and the history of our Fraternity and Chapter. We held our Chapter’s traditional Blue and Blue meeting, which incorporated the returning of the new member pin (minus the pins due to Covid-19) and sharing our happiest Kappa memories, on October 13th virtually. This gave all the actives an opportunity to participate regardless of where they were located and also to respect the Covid-19 safety guidelines. In the same meeting we did a Kappa Kahoot Game, to test our Kappa knowledge and to learn new fun facts about our Chapter, international Chapters and Alumna Associations, and the Fraternity founding.
Our Events Chairman planned and executed two virtual cooking events, learning and cooking as a Chapter curry and squash risotto. She also planned a virtual Kappa Murder Mystery night, which had amazing success! Our first philanthropy event of the year was unfortunately cancelled due to Covid-19, however over the summer the Greek community at McGill came together and raised over $20,000 for Demand Justice Now in support of the BLM movement. Our chapter also raised over $1600 for First Book Canada with online Instagram bingo sheets, and $645 was raised with a virtual 5km run/walk event for the First Book Canada Representation in Reading Initiative! To end the semester, PR started a 12 Days of Kappa Kindness which gives a daily prompt for donating to a philanthropy, supporting a sister, or doing a random act of kindness.
To incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion into our Chapter, Chapter Council opted to create a new DEI position and committee to oversee topics that fall into this category. This team worked with other officers and the Chapter to promote the qualities of DEI, and have accomplished some amazing initiatives: during formal meetings a land acknowledgment is made, a PR focus on LGBTQ+, Indigenous, and BIPOC inclusion, and working to promote local BIPOC businesses on social media. Our DEI officer has also been working with other Greek organizations at McGill to help them establish DEI officers and initiatives.
This year Delta Delta supported First Book Canada and Demand Justice Now, an initiative in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. First Book Canada is our Fraternity philanthropy which we continuously support with our fundraisers every semester. This year we chose Demand Justice Now as a local philanthropy initiative with other organizations in the McGill Greek community to give local support to the international BLM movement.