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Within the chapter, the Delta Beta Council underwent a number of changes during 2012, largely involving the new house. House Chair became a newly significant position on Council responsible for ensuring that the house met the needs of its residents and fostered sisterhood among the Kappas living there. Council also had to determine which members of the Executive Board would be required to live in the house for the coming years, ultimately settling on the President, the House Chair, the New Member Chair, and the Vice President of Standards. Finally, Council decided this year to add Recruitment Assistant as another elected position for future years.
==Highlights of 2013==
The Delta Beta chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma thrived this year in academics, sisterhood, and philanthropy. At the Kappa Kappa Gamma Province Meeting, we received awards for Outstanding Advisory Board, Outstanding Philanthropy, and Honorable mention for Risk Management. At the Duke Greek Awards, Kappa Kappa Gamma received the Gold Chapter (Duke Greek Community Standard) award, and one of our sophomore members, Lauren Alef, received the Panhellenic Empowering Women Scholarship. Along with the awards we also received an outstanding class of new members. The success of the chapter was due to the dedication of its women to their sorority and their sisters.
This year was an enormously successful year for Delta Beta’s philanthropic efforts. As a chapter, we worked to continue our existing chapter traditions and to focus on supporting other sororities and our own sisters with their particular service projects and interests. In the Spring of 2013, the Delta Beta chapter held our annual Reading is Key event at the John Avery Boys and Girls Club to support Reading is Fundamental. Sisters worked hard to either donate money or books during our book drive leading up to the event in order to ensure that each student went home with a new book to read. The afternoon at the Boys and Girls club included reading and book-centered activities to engage the children while promoting youth literacy. This event was fun for our sisters, supported Kappa’s national philanthropy, and also allowed sisters to engage with the larger Durham community. Our chapter continued our support of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation through our annual Finals Care Packages. This was a great way to support the Foundation and was an opportunity to educate our chapter and our sisters’ families regarding the mission and goals of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation.
This fall, we held our 6th Annual 5K for Camp Kaleidoscope and raised just under $10,000! This is the most money our chapter has ever raised for Camp Kaleidoscope, which is an enormous accomplishment for our chapter! The event was also a great way for younger members of the chapter to become familiar with annual chapter events and fundraisers and to promote sisterhood around a common goal. In addition to our annual events, individual sisters also shared their own interests with the chapter and encouraged attendance and participation in events like Duke Dance Marathon or the Special Olympics. These are just a few examples of the many diverse service activities Delta Beta Kappas have participated in during the 2013 calendar year. Overall, the chapter has a strong commitment to service both inside and outside of Kappa Kappa Gamma. All of our efforts, both with Kappa and individually, have supported and demonstrated this value.
In addition to our philanthropic success, our chapter continued the hosting of weekly meetings in the house for the women of Delta Beta ("Kappa Keypsakes") to discuss personal experiences and struggles and further develop the support system within the chapter. Further, during a chapter meeting this fall, our Vice President of Standards also led an open discussion about sexual pressure at Duke, in relationships, ect. and how to uphold our values and commitments in spite of social pressure. Finally, Delta Beta recognized the 82nd anniversary of Founder's Day by celebrating both old and new traditions with alumni and active members.
In the beginning of the year, Delta Beta laid out goals for the year including working on leadership styles to work together in the most efficient way possible, working better with advisers and understanding how they can help individual officer responsibilities as the leaders of the chapter, and using the committees more in order to increase chapter member involvement via specific tasks and projects. The main theme of these goals was to increase chapter unity and individual involvement. A challenge Delta Beta faced in order to successfully achieve all these goals was chapter attendance. While attendance has improved, some members missed more chapters than was acceptable. In order to remedy this issue, the Standards Committee continued to meet with any women with incomplete attendance to sort out any challenges they were facing and express how going to chapter meetings is something special. In order to make chapter meetings more meaningful, the sisters continued recognizing one member each chapter who had accomplished something that week by surprising her with a small gift, such as flowers or chocolates. This has created a positive and supportive environment that the sisters look forward to being a part of weekly.
Duke added a new sorority to its campus—Gamma Phi Beta, creating a total of ten Panhellenic sororities. The addition of this new sorority provides a great opportunity for unaffiliated juniors and seniors, as well as freshmen and sophomores, to become part of the Greek community.
Delta Beta Kappas made a point to support Duke Panhellenic’s goal of increasing Greek unity between different chapters on campus. As such, several of our members attended Kappa Alpha Theta’s event to support Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) and Tri Delta’s event to support St. Jude’s Hospital, among other on-campus events. This increased unity not only amongst our own members but between members of other sororities, also.
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