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==Highlights of 2018==
This past year, Delta Omicron has accomplished many goals not only within our chapter, but in the greek community as a whole. Our first recognition as a chapter occurred in the Spring of 2018 when Kappa Kappa Gamma was awarded the title of Best Academic Programming and Best Social Justice Programming out of all of the sororities in the Panhellenic Community at our Vespers ceremony. These awards were due to the efforts of the 2017 Academics Committee and the Social Justice Chairman, who each implemented positive programming in order to better support our members and educate them on how to be successful in different facets of their lives. The Academics Committee continued to help women struggling academically in a one-on-one setting, celebrated academic successes through a scholarship brunch each semester, and implemented the Major Captain mentorship program along with a yearly motto to inspire our Chapter’s academic endeavors for the year. We also had a few of our women receive individual awards in the Spring Katie Nawrocki received recognition as the President of the Year and Elizabeth Garzon received recognition as Outstanding Service Woman. Over the summer, Delta Omicron was given the Standards Award at the Kappa Kappa Gamma National Convention due to the positive standards programming that our Standards Committee has implemented in the past few years. Delta Omicron also participated with Alpha Phi, Pi Beta Phi, and Farmhouse to compete in the annual varieties musical competition where we won first place overall as well as multiple caption awards.
At the beginning of the Fall semester, Delta Omicron participated in primary recruitment where we maxed out on our total and recruited at record return rates. Olivia Danner, our membership chairman, made both spirit week and recruitment a fun experience for everyone as we focused on values, sisterhood, and relationships with one another. This value based recruitment proved to be a huge success as we welcomed 44 new sisters into our chapter, and managed to have 100 percent new member retention throughout the new member period and the first semester.
The rest of the Fall semester was full of fun as Delta Omicron held a very successful philanthropy, Kappa with Queso, and performed well in traditional Homecoming activities. Our public relations chair, Julia Beswick, also held our second annual alumni event at the Iowa State alumni center, which consisted of dessert, conversation, stories and lots of laughs.
Our chapter has a consistently strong sisterhood and morale remains high among the women of Delta Omicron! Greek life on Iowa State’s campus continues to be looked on in a positive light as the members of the sororities and fraternities on campus work hard to change negative perceptions that can sometimes accompany the greek community.
Delta Omicron supports Reading is Fundamental, the KKG Foundation and Dance Marathon. Year after year Delta Omicron thoroughly enjoys supporting these organizations. Kappa with Queso, an all you can eat nacho bar, and Kappa Karnival, an elementary game night where children win books for prizes, are put on to support Reading is Fundamental and the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation, and Kakes for Kids, an all you can eat pancake breakfast, is put on to support Dance Marathon. Our chapter loves that we are able to experience first hand the difference that we can make in the lives of children through the Karnival and Kakes events.
==Highlights of 2019==