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'''Marist College, established in 1929 in Poughkeepsie, NY.'''
Marist College was established in 1929 with the first college level courses offered that year. It was granted its charter as a four year college from the state of New York in 1946.
'''Zeta Chi founded November 20, 1993'''
Zeta Chi had 50 charter members and was a local sorority which petitioned KKG for colonization.
'''546 initiates (as of January 2017)'''
== About Marist College ==
Over a century ago, the Marist Brothers came to New York's Hudson River Valley to train young men to continue the Brothers' vocation as great educators. What started as a seminary for the training of future Marist Brothers has developed into one of the leading colleges of the arts and sciences in the country. Marist College is now home to approximately 4,100 traditional undergraduate men and women, 1,100 adult continuing education students, and another 1,000 graduate students. In 1947, the first graduating class of modern-day Marist College consisted of four Marist Brothers. Today, close to 30,000 alumni and alumnae call Marist alma mater. Marist has a proud tradition that laid the foundation for a state-of-the-art campus for students preparing to enter the work force of the 21st century. Marist College follows in the tradition of great institutions like Harvard University and the College of William and Mary that were founded as seminaries and developed into independent academies of higher learning. Marist can trace its roots to 1905, when the Marist Brothers purchased property and a private liberal arts college on house from Thomas McPherson along the east bank eastern shore of the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie, NY. The Brothers named the building and property St. Ann's Hermitage. In 1908, the Brothers purchased the Edward Bech estate to enable the Hermitage to expand. The College purchased additional property to the north and east and now consists of more than 150 acres. In 1929, college-level courses were first offered. In 1946, the State of New Yorkgranted the institution an official, four-year charter under the leadership of founding president Brother Paul Ambrose Fontaine, FMS. The site Brothers set about to construct several buildings on the grounds of what was established then called Marian College. Dr. Linus Richard Foy became president in 1958 and became, at age 28, the youngest college president in 1905 by the United States. Marian College became Marist BrothersCollege in 1960. In that same year, and the college mission of the College was chartered in 1929broadened to include the wider community. Approximately 4,500 Lay male students were admitted to pursue undergraduate students attend studies. An evening division was also introduced to serve the educational needs of the Poughkeepsie campussurrounding communities. Women were admitted to the evening division in 1966. In 1968, women entered the day division, making the College fully coeducational. Ownership of the College was transferred in 1969 to the Marist College Educational Corporation with an independent, predominantly lay board of trustees. Nonetheless, the Marist Brothers' legacy of service and striving for excellence continues to inspire and enrich the 2013 issue academic life of Uthe College.S ==Highlights from 2000-2009== Chapter members were proud to have worked hard through diligent financial management to clear their debt to the Fraternity by fall 2004. News While the Zeta Chi chapter was small throughout most of this decade (25-31 members), they remained active on campus, promoting a positve impact of Greek life and World Report's "America's best colleges"sorority membership on the other students. They were consistent participants in Greek Week activities, winning the rope pull many times. There were 3 NPC groups on the Marist campus during this decade. In 2009 and 2010, Zeta Chi had their largest new member classes to date and grew their chapter total to 47 members. Sisterhood events were an important part of the chapter’s activities. These included movie nights, picnics on the Hudson River, pasta parties, shopping trips, makeup parties, cosmic bowling and holiday dinners. Seniors completed a scrapbook page which was ranked 8th then placed in the chapter scrapbook as a part of the archives.Zeta Chi members were active in philathropy activities throughout the category Regional Universities (North)school years. For These included Relay for Life, Easter Egg Hunt with the Poughkeepsie Children’s Home, Alex’s Lemonade stand, school supply drives, formal dress drive for Cinderella’s closet, Miles for Medals, breast cancer walk as well as activities supporting RIF and raising funds for the tenth Rose McGill fund. The chapter held a Mother-Daughter brunch, Father-Daughter BBQ, Senior Sendoff, Sapphire Ball and celelbrated Founders Day each year . Early in the decade, Founders Day was held in conjunction with Parents weekend, allowing their parents to learn more about KKG. Later in the decade, Founders Day was celebrated with the alumnae association at a rowlocal alumnae’s home ==Highlights of 2010== In 2010, The Princeton Review named Marist as one Zeta Chi was awarded Honorable Mention for Standards at Kappa’s Biennial Convention.Members were consistent recipient of the nations best schools in its publication "The Best 373 Colleges"Foundation Scholarships throughout this decade.
==Highlights of 2011==
Zeta Chi's president Lauren Garner and advisor, Kait Smith attended the Kappa Kappa Gamma National Convention in Houston, Texas. Zeta Chi was very excited to receive honorable mentions in Panhellenic and Public Relations.
As the Fall Semester of 2014 progressed at Marist College, the Zeta Chi chapter continued to be as busy as ever. One challenge that our chapter had to overcome this semester was not holding recruitment and taking a new member class. However, the Zeta Chi chapter planned many events to keep the sisters involved and engaged! In September the Zeta Chi Chapter visited The Hudson Valley Animal Rescue Sanctuary (HVARS), which is a charity organization that specializes in rescuing and rehabilitating domestic wildlife as well as farm animals. The members of Zeta Chi helped with everyday activities such as cleaning, feeding, and playing with animals such as dogs, cats, and horses. Zeta Chi was also very active on the Marist Campus, having set up a booth at both the activity fairs and the parents weekend carnival.
==Highlights of 2015==
'''Spring 2015'''
Zeta Chi started the spring semester off with a bang! In February we held recruitment and our theme was Garden/Lilly for the first and third night. This year Panhellenic decided to show greek unity by having each sorority select a decade to theme their second night of recruitment. We were excited to represent the 1920s. Simultaneously we were also pleased to have Jo, our Leadership Consultant return to Marist to assist us with recruitment and improving our chapter. Though we did have to change the dates of recruitment and a couple weekly meetings due to the tremendous amount of snow we received, we were happy to welcome 20 new members into our sisterhood. We held a new member celebration in the student center which included taking pictures with huge Kappa Balloons and socializing. To get to know the new members better, we held a sophomore event at which the sophomores and new members decorated cookies and played just dance. We also enjoyed ice skating at the Hudson Valley Civic Center as one of our sisterhood events. As for Philanthropy we raised $100 for the American Heart Association at our bake sale. Three of our sister, Kelly, Colleen and Emily also jumped in the river at the Polar Plunge in Fishkill. This semester the Standards committee started choosing a Kappa Klassy Value of the Week. This value is chosen from a list of qualities that we compiled as a chapter that every kappa should uphold.
In May Zeta Chi participated in their semi-annual philanthropy event, Reading is Fundamental. We held a Kappa Kickball event to raise money for RIF. Following the game we headed over to the Children's home of Poughkeepsie where we did crafts, distributed books, did face painting and plaid basketball with the kids. We were sad to bid our seniors farewell at our senior sendoffs. We shared memories, took pictures and celebrated all that our seniors have contributed to Zeta Chi over lunch. We certainly ended the year on a high note receiving the first ever Marist Greek Excellence Award.
'''Fall 2015'''
Zeta Chi started off the new semester much smaller than last year, we had about 30 seniors graduate and we had 13 of our sister studying abroad all over the world. We did not hold fall recruitment, this was a challenge for us because the sixe of our chapter seemed so small this semester but we grew closer as whole because of it. We held our first philanthropy event of the semester the day of move in which was to help at the Children’s Home or Poughkeepsie’s 5k race and hand our water bottles to the runners. Even through all of the chaos of move in we were able to have some of our sisters represent Kappa at the race.
