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==Highlights of 2021==
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For the 2021-year Gamma Omicron accomplished some wonderful things. In the year of 2021, we welcomed 21 new members into our chapter. We also won our local Derby Days competition and we won FSL feud for our Greek Week competition! We also had at least two members on our Panhellenic Council as well as four members who were assigned as Recruitment Counselors in 2021. We also had one member on our Fraternal Standards Board as well as two members who were in the Mortar Board. One of the goals we had in 2021 was to improve our sisterhood even though we weren’t always in the same place due to covid-19 which is something we did accomplish. We held our first Barn Dance and Senior Activity since covid began and both went really well. We held many fun socials such as our pumpkin carving sisterhood or the cookie decorating. Our FSL community also held our annual Jingle Mingle event in-person since covid began as well.
We support the Albany County Safe Project as our local philanthropy because our chapter really appreciates the help they give the community and how they help people in general. We also really think that helping people in need is extremely important and having the resources they provide is super important especially since they help support people on the University of Wyoming Campus as well. We also raised/donated $10,350.23 for the Albany County Safe Project in 2021. We also support our local Veterans community. We support them because we want them to know that they are loved and appreciated, and that people do care about/for them. Gamma Omicron supported them by making them holiday cards for them, Christmas/winter holiday, valentines, Halloween, etc. We also had a totally of 704 hours of service hours for a variety of local philanthropies that members in our chapter completed.
This year we raised $4,228.49 for our Kappa philanthropy by hosting our Kappa Cookout event. We also did some mental health awareness tabling. For this we tabled and talked to
community members about mental health and asked them to sign a pledge to support mental health. We also had information about mental health statistics, and we gave out
stickers that said “mental health matters”.
We added a DEI officer in the fall of 2021. We also really talked about and discussed DEI during our work week. We also had a Bias training in the spring of 2021.
In the 2021-year Covid-19 changed a lot of our chapter functions. At the start of 2021 we held almost every single event online. We changed all of our meetings to be held on zoom
and practically all paperwork that had been done by hand on paper was now done online. We held zoom ritual reviews where we learned our ritual and chaotically sung over zoom. We
also held virtual initiations that looked very different than what we do in person but that still went well. Due to having Chapter meetings online we started having themed meeting where
we would dress up as a specific theme. Those were really fun. We also held a few socials online with other chapters as well as a few online sisterhoods.
As we transitioned into the fall school semester we have transitioned back into in-person meetings, ritual reviews, initiation, fundraisers, and events while still taking precautions
against Covid-19, such as mask-wearing and social distancing, and making online options for members who are sick. This fall specifically we were able to do move-in in-person.
==Highlights of 2022==
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