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'''Georgetown University Founded: 1789'''
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==History of the University=='''Fraternity Alumnae Achievement Award Recipients:'''
Georgetown University is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit institution of higher learning in the United States. John Carroll’s founding of Georgetown College coincides with the birth of the U.S. In 1789, Carroll secured the deed to 60 acres of land on a hilltop overlooking the village of Georgetown. Classes began in 1792. Within the first year, attendance grew to more than 40 students from as far away as the West Indies. In 1817, the school awarded its first two bachelor’s degrees.--------------------
Georgetown Northeastern University was established in 1898 as the Evening Institute for Younger Men at the Huntington Avenue YMCA in Boston. Its first class was held October 3, 1898. The institute catered to the School needs of Medicine the rapidly growing immigrant population in Boston. Within a few years of its formation, it offered classes in 1851 law, engineering and finance. In 1909, the Law School school began offering day classes, and it moved to a new location on Huntington Avenue in 18701913. Patrick FThe school was officially organized as a college in 1916, and in 1922 it was renamed Northeastern University of the Boston Young Men's Christian Association. HealyIn a period of rapid campus expansion, Sthe university purchased the Huntington Avenue Grounds (former Boston Red Sox ballpark) in 1929, but did not build on the land due to financial constraints during the Great Depression.J Northeastern today is a private, secular, coeducational research university. It has eight colleges and offers undergraduate majors in 65 departments.At the graduate level, the university offers more than 125 programs and awards masters, doctoral, and professional degrees. The university is the home of more than 35 specialized research and education centers. Its main campus is located in the Fenway Cultural District of Boston. Northeastern is classified as a RU/H institution (high research activity) by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Among Northeastern's past and present faculty are several Guggenheim Fellows and a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Award” winner, a former Democratic nominee for President of the United Stateshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeastern_University - cite_note-7 and a Pulitzer Prize winner. ==Colonization and Installation== Following an open house attended by more than 200 interested women, interviews with Boston-area Kappa alumnae and the university’s president between 1873 colonization team and 1882an invitation-only, iris-adorned brunch, the charter members of Eta Omicron colony were pledged on January 30, 2010. Eta Omicron was installed March 27, 2010, with 86 charter members. Northeastern’s director of fraternity and sorority life challenged the first African American charter members to earn continue their excellent work as they begin a Phnew era of sorority life on campus and in the Boston community.D Eta Omicron was the seventh NPC women’s fraternity to be established at Northeastern. The university enrolls more than 15,000 undergraduate and 5,000 graduate students where 9,600 students were residents of the campus dorm and apartment structures. With more resident students than ever, the first desire for more students to head be part of a major UGreek-letter community increased.SNortheastern’s signature cooperative education program (co-op), as well as student research, service learning and global learning, builds the connections that enable students to transform their lives and the lives of others. university The university’s outstanding support of Greek life was one of many attractions to this institution for Kappa. The university’s expansion continued into the 20th century with charter new member class boasted the opening highest GPA of the School any Greek-letter organization at Northeastern. Eta Omicron members were campus and community leaders bringing much to this new chapter as leaders, scholars and philanthropy-focused women. Installing officers were Fraternity President Denise Rugani, UC Davis; Director of Dentistry in 1901Membership Elizabeth Bailey, Mississippi; Region 1 directors Claire St. Martin Collins, Emory, and Kelly Matyas Magyarics, Pittsburgh; Rho Province Directors Allyson Kinney, Connecticut, and Julie Carley Reilly, School Puget Sound; Coordinator of Nursing in 1903 Chapter Development Janice Franklin Larson, Akron, and Chapter Consultant Melissa Shearer, Vanderbilt. Eta Omicron Chapter was Kappa’s 137th active chapter and complemented the School growing, service-oriented campus Panhellenic consisting of Foreign Service seven other NPC groups—Alpha Epsilon Phi, Delta Phi Epsilon, Delta Zeta, Kappa Delta, Sigma Delta Tau, Sigma Sigma Sigma and Sigma Kappa colonizing in 1919Spring 2013. ==Chapter Awards== '''Fraternity Awards:''' Risk Management Award, 2014 Academic Excellence Award, 2016 Public Relations Award, 2018
By 1930, enrollment reached 2,600. However, the Great Depression was a period of great consolidation for Georgetown as enrollment fell to fewer than 2,000 students. During World War II, the U.S. War Department designated Georgetown as one of a select number of universities to house the Army Specialized Training Program. More than 75 percent of students enrolled in the 1943-44 academic year were military servicemen. During the 1944-45 academic year, women were allowed to enroll in the School of Foreign Service.
The years after World War II saw another increase in enrollment and expansion of the university. Georgetown created the School of Business Administration and the School for Summer and Continuing Education in the 1950s.
Across the nation, the 1960s were shaped by the emergence of revolutionary ideas and social upheaval. Georgetown students were on campus when the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy took place. The women’s movement began to take hold, and women were accepted to the College for the first time in 1969.
Students demonstrated against the Vietnam War in the 1970s, causing some disruptions to classes and campus life. By the end of the decade, most of the anger and discontent had been redirected into positive social action. The 1980s were a time of tremendous growth on campus. During the university’s bicentennial year (1988-89), U.S. President Ronald Reagan provided the opening address to kick off the yearlong celebration, the culmination of which included a reunion ball with more than 3,500 guests at D.C.’s Union Station. The 1980s also began a golden age in two traditional sports at Georgetown. Under coaches John Thompson, Jr., and Frank Gagliano, basketball and track, respectively, enjoyed unprecedented periods of success from the early 1980s well into the 1990s.'''Northeastern Panhellenic Awards:'''
In the 1980s and 1990s, Georgetown saw significant increases in the diversity Chapter of its students and faculty as it grew from a regional school to one of national prominence. Women also greatly increased their numbers within the faculty during the nineties, making up nearly 40 percent by 2001. In 2001, John J. DeGioia, Ph.D., became Georgetown’s 48th, and first layYear, president.2013
Georgetown has grown to be a major international research university with eight schoolsOutstanding Sisterhood, an affiliated hospital and many highly ranked academic programs. Today the university has more than 12,000 undergraduate and graduate students who take classes at five locations: Main Campus, Medical Center, Law Center, GU-Northern Virginia and the university’s School of Foreign Service-Qatar. Georgetown has a large and diverse workforce that employs more than 5,000 faculty and staff members.2013
==Kappa Presentation==Chapter Excellence, 2013
Presentation: Kappa Kappa Gamma is the first NPC group to install and have a chapter at Georgetown. Fraternity President Julie Marine Leshay, Colorado College, received email communication on May 3, 2013, from Georgetown students Carrie Cosgrove, Katherine Steininger and Bayla Pidgeon stating an interested group of women were vested in bringing a chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma to Georgetown. Prior to the Fraternity learning of this interest group’s intent, these women had reached out to the proper authority from National Panhellenic Conference and the Georgetown Student Affairs Office and received permission to contact Kappa Kappa Gamma.
On July 1Outstanding Scholarship, 2013, Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity was in receipt of a petition that a charter be granted to an interest group of unaffiliated students at Georgetown. On July 11, 2013, the Fraternity Council, Region 2 directors and Lambda Province directors unanimously voted in favor to approve the petition that a charter be granted to the interest group of unaffiliated students at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Date the invitation to colonize was received: July 1, 2013 (First email contact was May 3, 2013.)Date of the Fraternity Council vote to accept the invitation and proceed to colonize and establish a chapter: July 11, 20132014
==Colonization:== The chapter was colonized from a petition received from an interest group of unaffiliated Georgetown women students. Individual prospective member “Kappa Conversations” or interviews took place on August 31. This team was led by Extension Chairman Barb Adams GoettelmanOutstanding Leadership, Syracuse, with the help of Chapter Consultant Rebecca Shaw, Virginia Tech; Coordinator of Chapter Development Cori Egnew Woods, Richmond; Washington, D.C. - Suburban Maryland Alumnae Association President ViVi Tran, Central Florida; Gamma Chi Chapter Council Adviser Lee Bobbitt, Texas Tech; Diana Gale, North Carolina; Jen Stolp, UC Davis; Lambda East Province Director Libby Weith, Furman; Lambda Province Director of Alumnae Hilda Crucett Garrett, William & Mary; Lambda Coordinator of Chapter Support Adrienne Taylor Magnuson, West Virginia; members of Gamma Chi Chapter at George Washington University and Headquarters staff implemented this colonization plan specific to the needs of the first NPC sorority at Georgetown. Invitations to membership were extended and returned by 3 p.m. on August 31.Formal Pledging took place the afternoon of September 1 on the Georgetown campus led by Barb Goettelman. Bid Day activities, games and fun followed by a reception with desserts from Georgetown Cupcake planned by Cori Woods and Rebecca Shaw.2014
The sponsor chapter for Eta Tau is Gamma Chi at George Washington University. Gamma Chi members attended both Formal Pledging and interview day on August 31 and played an instrumental and important an important part Achievement in Installation Weekend which took place October 25 and 26.Scholarship, 2014
==Installation:==
The Fireside Service and Installation Service were held at the Georgetown Hotel and Conference Center with members of Gamma Chi serving as the sponsoring chapter. The weekend was led by Fraternity President Julie Leshay; Director of Membership Susan Pile, Miami (Ohio); Fraternity Ritual Chairman Susanne Wolff Vander Heyden, Washington State; Barb Goettelman; Installation Chairman Vicki Tallman Egnew, Ohio State; Region 2 Director of Chapters Lesley Dillon Lage, Akron; Region 2 Director of Alumnae Selena Staley Myers, Akron; Hilda Garrett; Libby Weith; Rebecca Shaw; and Cori Woods.
A beautiful installation brunch was held at the Georgetown Hotel and Conference Center. Barb Goettelman was the toastmistress. Fraternity President Julie Leshay welcomed Kappa to the campus and spoke about how the Fraternity fits into Georgetown’s campus life. Outstanding Philanthropy, 2015
ViVi Tran presented the President’s badge to Eta Tau president Jessica Michael at the brunch.The model chapter meeting followed at the Georgetown Hotel and Conference Center with Fraternity President Julie Leshay presiding. Following her installation as Eta Tau’s presidentOutstanding Academics, Jessica Michael presided and closed the meeting.2015
Alumna’s thoughts about being a part of the new Eta Tau Chapter: Rebecca Shaw knew how special the weekend was for the charter members of Eta Tau. “I could see how each of the 24 women was hanging on to every word. It was a proud moment to see how much they wanted this membership in Kappa and just how appreciative they were.”
Charter members’ thoughts about becoming Kappas: On June 21, 2013, Carrie Cosgrove shared: Our first vision is creating an opportunity unique to Georgetown’s campus which is bringing together girls with different interests and views. Georgetown’s student life is group-centric in the sense that students tend to meet and befriend only those classmates who share a common interest or view, e.g. soccer, international relations, political parties and so on. This can be a wonderful opportunity to meet others who share a particular interest as you, but we have few-to-no options for girls to be brought together from all different branches of interests. We see Kappa as a way to bring together the women’s community of Georgetown in a way that doesn’t exist currently.
SecondlyChapter of the Year, 2016 Achievement in Philanthropy, 2016 Achievement in Scholarship, 2016 Chapter of the Year, 2017 ==Highlights of 2012== 2012 was an exciting year for Eta Omicron: we focused on involvement in Fraternity and Sorority Life and the Boston community, and on building sisterhood in general. Some of our philanthropic efforts included volunteering at the Roxbury Boys and Girls Club, where we want tutored and held workshops such as baking classes. We also made valentines for troops, volunteered at the Greater Boston Food Bank, went to make the Astra Zeneca Hope Lodge, and even helped clean up the Franklin Park Zoo! Our variety of sisterhood events this year included movie nights, ice skating, and a trip to the most integral part Museum of Fine Arts. The spring of our future chapter2012 proved to be an eventful semester for Eta Omicron. We want earned the "Most Improved Chapter" Award for the year of 2011, showing that our sisters efforts to be there for one another more involved in every way possiblethe Fraternity and Sorority Life community are being recognized. During Greek Week, so we hope to implement academic were paired with Kappa Sigma, taking part in Greek Sing and winning Greek Olympics! We also participated in Relay for Life, where many sisters walked laps around our arena all night for cancer awareness and social support. The stress of Georgetown can bear down on anyone year's formal was held at any momentthe Hyatt Regency Hotel in Cambridge. Our semester was wrapped up by our annual Tea Party, where our seniors were sent off after hearing kind words about them from their sisters. Our chapter's GPA for the Spring 2012 semester was 3.361 placing third among all panhellenic sororities. At the 2012 biennial convention, Eta Omicron earned honorable mention in academic excellence and there is nothing better than having someone panhellenic relations. The fall semester of 2012 started off right there willing to helpwith a recruitment retreat in Cape Cod. Whether it would be tutoring in We stayed overnight at a specific subjectcamp, designated Kappa quiet study space during midterms practicing recruitment skills and finals or emotional support from getting ready for another sistergreat semester. Recruitment was one of our biggest successes this year, as 34 new members joined the one uninitiated member in pledging Kappa Kappa Gamma. During homecoming, we see all of these possibilities were paired with Alpha Epsilon Pi and necessities placed second in the annual homecoming dance competition, Take It To The Floor. We also took part in in such the Light the Night walk, which raised money for leukemia and lymphoma. On Founder's Day, we attended a rigorous universityluncheon at Harvard and heard alumnae talk about how they continued to stay involved in Kappa. Also falling under We also sponsored our sisterhood importancesecond annual Kappa Kickoff, where we would like Kappa to help younger students in their transition to Georgetown and college liferaised almost $1,000 with nearly 30 participating teams. There are innumerable times that freshman and sophomores seek guidance from an older studentDuring I-Week, and we hope that had many successful events, including the big-little reveal. The week culminated in 34 new members becoming initiated on December 1, 2012, with one more being initiated in the spring. The semester ended with our Kappa girls have the smoothest transition possible due to semi-formal at the advice Longwood Bar and support of Grill. We finished the older sisters andsemester with a 3.4 GPA, placing second among all panhellenic sororities. Northeastern University is growing rapidly, with over 44,000 students applying for 2, 800 spots in the future2012 entering class. This year, Kappa alumnaethe business school received a donation of $60 million and was renamed to the D'Amore-McKim School of Business. Eta Omicron is composed of a wide range of individuals who bring unique personalities and ideas to the chapter. We desire embrace all of our members and their points of view, striving to create truean accepting atmosphere where everyone can thrive and get involved. Through our diversity as a chapter, loving bonds of friendship in we challenge ourselves to uphold our values every day and truly live up to Kappastandards.
This past 2013 was a busy and exciting year has been full of new experiences for Eta Omicron! We continued to increase our involvement both in Northeastern Fraternity and Sorority Life on campus, as well as the charter class at Georgetown Universitygreater Boston area. Our instillation date on October 26th officially brought us together The Astra Zeneca Hope Lodge, which serves as sisters a home away from home for cancer patients and their families, became our local philanthropy focus. We spent two nights a month baking cookies, playing bingo, and talking with guests of the Hope Lodge. Our philanthropic involvement this year also included making Valentine’s Day cards for troops, the Greater Boston Food Bank, and volunteering at the help Franklin Park Zoo. Sisterhood events included a Madewell shopping event, Kappa Krumbs baking competition, Owl Pals, and weekly group dinner dates. Eta Omicron’s hard work and dedication did not go unnoticed during spring semester. At Fraternity and Sorority Life Awards, we were honored to earn the Chapter of fraternity president Julie Leshaythe Year Award, as well as the Outstanding Sisterhood, our chapter adviser Rebecca ShawOutstanding Scholarship, and Chapter Excellence Gold Awards. We were also honored that one of our sisters , Vice President of Academic Excellence Margaret Minnig, was named Outstanding Scholar. Our sister, Emma Caggiano, was elected as the first Panhellenic President from George Washington Universityour chapter. Our class spent many hours laughing over painting crafts During Greek Week, we were paired with the gentlemen of Phi Delta Theta, and monthly dinners in won Greek Sing with our dining hall during “Saved By The Bell” themed dance! We also won overall Greek Week, with our new member periodparticipation in food can collecting, Greek Olympics, and strong chapter spirit at events. Relay For ThanksgivingLife was also a great success- our sisters collectively raised over $20,000, more than any other team on campus! At Province, we had were honored to earn the New Member Program Award. We also held a potluck dinnerKappa Kaffeine fundraiser during finals week to raise money for the Kappa Foundation, which we hope can become and a traditionFutsal tournament with Alpha Epsilon Pi to raise money for the Yawkey Boys and Girls Club. Our formal was held on April 13th at the Seaport Hotel in Boston. In celebration To recognize one of a great first semester our largest graduating classes yet, as well as Kappas; future graduating classes, we enjoyed an offcreated Senior Week, known as S-campus holiday dinner togetherWeek. The week included programming for seniors, as well as a night of speeches from our sisters to the graduates. At We concluded the year-end dinner we exchanged “Secret Sister” giftssemester with our annual Tea Party brunch. Our GPA for spring semester was 3.39, which we hoperanking second among all 8 sororities on campus, will become an Eta Tau tradition. We are excited to see what this new year will bringas well as surpassing the all-sorority and all-women average.
As We started off fall semester with a sisterhood retreat at Camp Burgess in Cape Cod. We prepared for recruitment and bonded as a chapter after a long summer apart. With the first addition of another sorority on Georgetown’s campus, we are excited to be setting a new precedence. We spent the last few months getting to know each other and getting to know Sigma Kappa. We are excited to continue to learn about Kappa Kappa Gamma’s values and are so thankful for , as well as an increase in the support we have received from our many sisters working number of girls interested in the greater Washington DGreek life, Northeastern’s Panhellenic recruitment structure was changed.C. area. We are Instead of four days in a loyalrow, committedrecruitment was spread out across two weekends. Recruitment proved to be very successful, and enthusiastic founding chapter, and as we are excited to welcome a welcomed 33 new group members of women this springthe Epsilon class to our chapter on October 7th.
We recently gained more rights as Our annual Kappa Kickoff was held on November 16th with 35 teams participating, raising $850 dollars for Hope Lodge. Our philanthropy committee also hosted a non recognized student group on campussecond RIF event at Samuel Adams Elementary. For instanceTo further support RIF, we now have the ability brought an Ice ream truck to table at more places on campus and rent out roomsraised over $150. We owe this progress to the student government here at Georgetown. Another change that occurred this past year Our Sapphire Ball was a big one: the addition of another Panhellinc sorority here held on campus, Kappa Alpha Theta. With this addition we expanded greek life and welcomed new friends into our lives. This makes two Panhellenic sororities here December 6th at Georgetown nowEstate in Downtown Boston. The establishment of Theta also led to the beginnings of the formation of a Panhellenic Council later in the yearchapter’s fall 2014 GPA was 3. We elected two members from our Chapter to represent Kappa on 39, again surpassing the council. Our chapter consists of over a 100 passionate girls that form a powerful presence of campus by having high standards of academic excellence and crazy, fun sisterhood events that bring us closer to our sisters each day. I know that each all sorority and everyone of my sisters would say that joining Kappa has been one of there best choices of their college lifeall women’s averages.
We hold Eta Omicron holds chapter meetings in a University university owned classroom on campus that we reserve , which changes each weeksemester. Fall of 2014 was held in a Mugar classroom and Spring of 2014 was held in a Behrakis classroom. We do Our chapter does not have a house, lodge, apartment or suite. We have never had one in our history.
Next we had our spring formal in April where Cara and Nina worked extremely hard to put Formal was held on a fun night for everyone! When we came back to March 28th at The Inn at Longwood. We ended the school year with Senior Week (S-week), with seniors participating in late august we went straight into recruitment workshops a multitude of activities including Senior Wills and then recruitment itselfGoodbyes. It was a huge success as we came out with 30 new delta class membersWe graduated 24 incredible seniors. Hannah Smith did a wonderful job with recruitment and Jaclyn successfully led Our last event of the new members into year, the new member period by planning an awesome bid day Love and big little reveal. We then had semi formal for the first time in OctoberLoyal Tea, which not surprising was another fun night full of sisterhood spectacular and dancing! Then came initiation again, and then we honored our much deserving sister Cara Henderson with the nominating committee began the elections processLoyalty Award. We are so excited for our new officers and know that they will do amazing things Our chapter GPA for this chapter! We ended the year by having our winter formal in December at a nightclub in Dupont Circle, which Spring semester was amazing as always3. Now finals are coming up as 2015 comes to a close38, we cant wait to see how our chapter grows in 2016! Georgetown Panhellenic changed ranking fifth out of the times of recruitment from Spring to Fall. So this year was our first fall recruitment cycle and it went perfectly! We gained a wonderful new delta pledge class of about 30 girls. We also received a Kappa transfer from Wake Foresteight sororities on campus, Emily Cahill. We are so excited to welcome her into our chapter as well as surpassing the all-women and have her join our sisterhoodall-sorority average.
What organization(s) has your chapter historically/traditionally raised money for, or donated hours We started our Fall 2015 with our annual sisterhood retreat to, Camp Burgess in your community? Cape Cod. We organized prepared ourselves for Recruitment with workshops and strengthened our first annual Kappa Karnival last spring sisterhood through bonding activities and competitions. Interest in recruitment continues to benefit the DC Women’s Rape Crisis Center where we raised increase on campus and more than 1000 dollars 500 girls came out for themformal recruitment. We decided Eta Omicron proved to have a very successful recruitment, welcoming 35 excited members to make this our signature philanthropy event and will be doing it every springthe Eta Class on September 30th.
==Highlight 2016==This year the Eta Theta (Harvard) chapter hosted Founder’s Day on their campus and active members of Eta Omicron and Zeta Alpha (Babson) chapters as well as alumni attended to celebrate with a brunch. During Homecoming Week we were paired with the gentlemen of Beta Chi Theta and Alpha Delta Phi. We participated in the week’s events including the annual dance competition, Take It to the Floor. Our sister, Christy Murphy also ran for Mayor of Huntington Avenue, the first contestant ever from our chapter. The new member period was carefully planned so as not overwhelm while simultaneously integrating the newest class. There were many events including Pumpkin Carving, a self defense class, and a “Minute to Win It” competition for the new members to meet and socialize with the active sisters. The annual New Member Retreat was held at an active sister’s house in Topsfield, MA. During Inspiration Week we held our 3rd annual Pillow-Key/Fleur-de-Lis Exchange for the bigs and littles and the annual Owl Prowl. The week culminated in the initiation of 33 new members on Saturday December 5th. Our annual Kappa Kickoff was held on October 25th with 28 teams participating, raising $900 dollars for the AstraZeneca Hope Lodge. We also held a Bar-B-Que afterwards for our sisters and the participating teams. In one of the most interesting Education Chapters, Eta Omicron held its first “It’s On Us” presentation, facilitating discussion and understanding about sexual assault on college campuses. The last week of the semester, we held S-week and celebrated our four graduating fall seniors. Our Sapphire Ball was held on December 12th at CandiBar in Downtown Boston. The chapter’s Fall 2015 GPA was not available at the time this report was written. Eta Omicron holds chapter in a university owned classroom, which changes each semester. Fall of 2015 was held in a Cargill classroom and Spring of 2015 was held in a Churchill classroom. Our chapter does not have a house, lodge, apartment or suite. We have never had one in our history. The biggest recent change on our campus was the remodeling of Curry Student Center, where all Panhellenic Sororities hold formal fall recruitment. The first floor was renovated and now includes a mini amphitheater. Chapter Philanthropy:
This year, at the Kappa Kappa Gamma Convention, the Eta Tau What organization(s) has your chapter was award the Recruitment Award historically/traditionally raised money for chapters at colleges and universities with less than 6 chapters. Additionally, the chapter received Honorable Mention for the Gracious Living Award for unhoused Kappa Kappa Gamma chapters. or donated hours to, in your community?
In A major focus of the fall, over half of Spring semester was increasing our philanthropic endeavors. We held our annual Reading is Fundamental event on March 31st at the Sam Adams Elementary School. We worked with the active members received one of these academic distinctions - and same class we also celebrated had worked with the fact that Kappa was #1 sorority on campus for academicsyear before in their second grade classroom. We read “If You Give A Mouse A Cookie,” played bingo, and made bookmarks with an average GPA of 3.574 for the Spring 2016 semesterchildren. Throughout each semesterAdditionally, we also booked group study rooms in the librarychanged some of our activities with our local philanthropy, providing a great place for members of the chapter to study togetherAstraZeneca Hope Lodge. FinallyInstead of Bingo, we hosted started playing trivia and held a number of study breaks throughout the two semestersSuperBowl Party. Lastly, encouraging sisters to take a little time off from studying we held our first annual Lip Sync for midterms or finals to spend time with sisters and receive appreciative small gifts (foodLife, mugsa Jimmy Fallon style LipSync Battle, etc.) from and raised over $600 for the chapterHope Lodge.
Over the course of the past year, the Eta Tau chapter has has engaged in a number of philanthropic engagements, independently and in partnership with other Greek and student organizations.
Eta Tau has continued its commitment to volunteering for Reading is Fundamental, the fratenity's philanthropy. This fall, Eta Tau went to Beer'Why did your chapter choose this organization(s elementary school in DC to read to children for the afternoon, and to donate a number of books ) to the public elementary school. support?
Eta Tau hosts an annual Kappa Karnival as its signature philanthrophy event. This April, our Our chapter hosted our Carnival chose to benefit support the Dog Tag Bakery, a philanthrophic bakery that trains, educates, and employs veterans and their caregivers. Additionally, AstraZeneca Hope Lodge in 2013 because many of the spring semster, members of Eta Tau chapter participated women in a Georgetown neighborhood cleanup the organization felt personal connections to promote the chapter Lodge. We are all affected by cancer in one way or another and greek life's positive impact in thought this would be the communitybest place to devote our time. In late AprilWe are also able to do hands on work at the Lodge and we interact with the guests, the instead of solely donating money and that was important to our chapter participated in Georgetown University's Relay for Life fundraiser; Kappa Kappa Gamma was one of the top five fundraising group participants in the fundraiser.
This fall, Eta Tau hosted a charity yoga event in partnership with Georgetown University's Relay for Life student organization at Down Dog, a local Georgetown yoga studio. Eta Tau worked in partnership with DC Reads, a student organization working to provide mentorship and tutoring to underprivileged children in the DC metropolian area to run a face-painting booth at the organization's "Fall Fest".In the fall semster, Eta Tau chapter maintained its efforts to engage in philanthropic partnerships with Greek organizations on campus. Most notably, Eta Tau sustained its commitment to philanthropic involvement with Georgetown University's Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter. In October, Eta Tau ran a bake sale station at Sigma Phi Epsilon's Halloween 5K, benefitting the Doorways Foundation, an organization providing protection to survivors ==Highlight of domestic violence. In November, our chapter paired with Sigma Phi Epsilon to donate sandwich meals to a local food bank. 2016==
Why did your chapter choose this organization(s) to support? In the spring we volunteered at our new local philanthropy, Christopher’s Haven, for the first time on January 28th. We believe that it represents an important cause go to benefit given the current political Christopher’s Haven bi-monthly and social climate in colleges across help out wherever we’re needed. Christopher’s Haven is a home away from home where children can stay with their families while undergoing cancer treatments at Massachusetts General Hospital. Most of the nation. Also our philanthropy chair sent time we hang out a poll asking which place chapter members wanted with the kids and families playing games, watching shows, and making crafts, but other times we help parents with chores they don’t have time to benefit complete. We have volunteered with Christopher’s Haven eleven times thus far and the most people said the DC Women’s Rape Crisis Centerwe cannot wait to strengthen our relationship even further.
== Highlights Northeastern welcomed Chi Omega as its ninth sorority on campus in the spring of 2017 ==2016. For the first time in our chapter’s history we held an informal spring recruitment. It was extremely successful and we welcomed nineteen lively Thetas to our chapter on February 4th. During their new member period, they attended events with older pledge classes to get to know our chapter. They attended the annual new member retreat, which was held at Emily Horn’s house in Franklin, Massachusetts. The new members also attended other annual events such as Owl Prowl and our Pillow/Key Exchange with their new big/little pairings. We were proud to initiate all nineteen women on April 9th.
For Eta TauIn Northeastern’s annual Greek Week this spring, 2017 was an exciting year: old traditions we were celebratedpaired with the gentlemen of Kappa Sigma fraternity. We participated in Greek Olympics and our annual dance competition, Greek Sing, finishing first in both of these events. Also, our sister, new traditions were initiatedDina Hagigeorges, won Greek Goddess. The entire chapter’s participation and involvement in Greek Week played an active role in our sisterhood continues to strengthenoverall first place finish. Chapter Council 2017 approached this year with freshAt the end of Greek Week, exciting ideaswe won the Silver Achievement Award as well as Achievements in Scholarship and Philanthropy. Over the summer, two of our sisters attended Kappa Kappa Gamma’s national convention where we won the Academic Excellence Award and it has been wonderful seeing these new traditions brought to fruitionreceived honorable mentions in greatest improvement and panhel.
[[File:Eta Tau We ended the spring semester with senior week - an exciting time to celebrate the hard work and dedication our sisters have put in during their college careers. Our chapter participated in events such as Senior Legacy Night and Senior Wills and Goodbyes. Our annual Tea Party was held at the end of the week, where we honored Adriana Levy with the Loyalty Award. The week concluded with us graduating 25 of our wonderful sisters. We also attended Formal on April 22nd on the Spirit of Boston. Our final spring GPA was 3.jpg|thumb|471, ranking first out of all sororities on campus.Upon returning to campus in the fall, our sisters attended our annual sisterhood retreat. We held this event in campus classrooms, where we spent time bonding through games, activities, and recruitment workshops. Formal recruitment was held during the following two weekends. Eta Tau Omicron successfully welcomed a new Iota class of 30 spirited women on September 26th. The new member period was filled with activities to integrate the newest pledge class into our chapter members.]]We held our traditional events, such as our new member retreat, but also adopted new items to our new member curriculum, such as Every Member Education. I-week was successful in increasing sisters’ understanding and appreciation of our ritual. All thirty women were in good standing both financially and academically, which led to them being initiated at the end of their new member period on November 19th.
Throughout the This yearBabson’s Zeta Alpha chapter hosted Founders Day on October 15th. Active members of Eta Omicron and Eta Theta of Harvard were in attendance, we participated in and held several events that have focused on improving as well as alumnae from various chapters. We celebrated our chapter’s commitment to philanthropyfounding with brunch, academic excellencepresentations, Panhellenic relationsawards, and member development through sisterhoodengaging conversations. To name a few, we hosted a Galentine’s Day Eta Omicron held numerous sisterhood event, celebrated academic excellence with new professional development initiatives and two Academic Excellence Banquets, professional headshots, a trip events this year to strengthen the moviesbonds in our chapter. Some events included crocheting, monthly book club meetings, several study breakspumpkin carving, and a Dinner with Seven Sisters TITLE Boxing event. We had amazing chapter meetings, a women’s workwear workshop, our first chapter RIF eventas well, including a sisterhood pumpkin painting night, speaker presentation about the It’s On Us campaign. We also participated in other organizations’ philanthropy eventsNortheastern’s Homecoming Week Events, hosted which included our first annual Family Weekend Brunchdance competition, and so much more. To strengthen Panhellenic relationsTake it to the Floor, Panhellenic planned where we placed second with the first ever meet-and-greet for our Chapter Council and Kappa Alpha Theta’s executive board, two Panhellenic pizza partiesbrothers of Beta Theta Pi. Our sister, Panhellenic office hoursSavannah Knisely, and various other opportunities ran for members Mayor of both Panhellenic chapters to mingle and learn more about PanhellenicHuntington Avenue.
[[File:Eta TauThe fall semester concluded with our Semi Formal and Senior Week.jpg|thumb|Eta Tau celebrates Galentine's DaySemi Formal was held at Guilt Night Club in Downtown Boston on December 10th. Senior week celebrated our one December graduate. Unfortunately, the fall semester GPA was not available at the time of this report.Our philanthropic endeavors were very strong in the 2016 school year. In the spring, we hosted our annual Lip Sync for Life Event with the brothers of Kappa Sigma and the sisters of Alpha Epsilon Phi where we raised $600 for Christopher’s Haven. Additionally, we attended Northeastern’s annual Relay for Life event on March 18th. As a whole, Northeastern raised over $260,000 and as women of Kappa Kappa Gamma, we contributed over $21,000 to this total. We were proud to be the top fundraising organization at Northeastern and we also surpassed our fundraising goal of $20,000. Furthermore, we made two trips to the Greater Boston Food Bank this year. During each trip, we made 6,000 meals possible and sorted through 9,000 pounds of food. We also held a Cards for Troops event with Delta Phi Epsilon. To support our national philanthropy, we held a RIF event on April 12th at the Samuel Adams Elementary School. We read The Giving Tree to three first grade classrooms and donated books to over 60 students. We held another RIF event at the same school in our fall semester, where we read Corduroy and did activities centered on the theme of the book. We gave each student a book and we donated the remainder of the books to the school. Also to benefit RIF, we had an ice cream truck come to campus and half of the profits went to RIF. Lastly, we held our annual Kappa Kickoff philanthropy event on October 23rd and raised $855 for Christopher’s Haven.]]
This AprilOur chapter meetings are held in rooms owned by Northeastern. Chapter meetings were held in 97 Cargill Hall and 200 Richards Hall in the spring and fall semesters, respectively. Our chapter does not have a house, lodge, some apartment or suite and we have never had one in our history.Achieving our goals was an essential part of our Chapter Council officers traveled to Pittsburgh for the very first Kappa Leadership Conference2016 school year. These officers brought back with them new ideas that they immediately began implementing in We successfully raised our chapter to promote leadership chapter’s overall GPA by booking study rooms and membership developmentenforcing academic excellence goals. AdditionallyWe decreased absences by enforcing rules with recording secretary and VPS check-ins, we welcomed two Leadership Consultantsutilizing surveys to plan events, who each served as valuable resources and taking attendance at all planned events. We increased our Panhel attendance by utilizing committees for panhel meetings. Also, our sisters gained a better understanding and appreciation of ritual through our chaptertwo Inspiration weeks. With their guidanceLastly, we began have positively promoted our new initiatives philanthropy and logged attendance hours to enhance our chapter’s understanding of Fraternity Ritual – several ritual reviewsensure we are forming a strong relationship with Christopher’s Haven. Overall, the Marshal Minute, 2016 school year has been a year full of sisterhood and several forms high achievements for the amazing women of trivia regarding Fraternity history and ritualEta Omicron.
With our many successes, we certainly had our fair share of challenges this year, specifically with regards to budgeting. Unfortunately, we had fewer funds than we originally anticipated at the start of the fall semester, resulting in budget cuts. Despite this challenge, our Chapter Council, specifically our Treasurer and Assistant Treasurers, worked diligently to collaborate and find innovative ways to continue having fun events with fewer funds. This challenge in particular encouraged our Chapter Council to be as transparent as possible with Chapter members regarding Chapter finances. Additionally, with several pervasive issues surrounding our nation today, regarding feminism, diversity, and inclusivity, our Chapter has worked to address these issues and ensure that Kappa is a safe space where each member feels her voice is heard – specifically, through addressing all concerns brought through the anonymous Standards and Chapter Council forms, creating discussions surrounding women in the workplace and chapter issues, discussing ways we can introduce more inclusive language day to day, and feminist role model presentations.
In April, we said goodbye to 37 extraordinary seniors who created ==Highlights of 2017==The Eta Omicron chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma had a lasting impact wonderful year in our chapter2017. Through Fall RecruitmentIn early January, we welcomed 34 incredible women into our the Eta Omicron Chapter Council developed five goals for the chapterto move towards achieving throughout the year. They are dynamic These goals were to form a stronger relationship with the other Northeastern fraternities and sororities on campus and the greater Northeastern communities, to increase understanding and appreciation of rituals, diversebylaws, standing rules and wonderful young women who we are proud history, to welcome into our emphasize sisterhood. We are incredibly excited in all aspects of chapter life and programming, to see the impact they make in our chapter’s futurebetter use of committees, and to increase study hours by 50%.
With 2017 coming to a close, it has been remarkable During the spring semester our chapter had many events to reflect on this year and see help strengthen sisterhood within our chapter’s efforts to continue being a steadfast home to each and every member in sorority as well as our chapterrelationships with other sororities on campus. We are hopeful held events such as exercise classes and excited that 2018 will be a year full of even more innovation in holiday celebrations within our chapter, sorority as well as with an unwavering commitment to Kappa Kappa Gamma’s ideals other organizations and valueschapters.
Chapter Council altered In April, we celebrated our soon-to-be graduates and all their style of discussion accomplishments and the hard work they had put in throughout their years at Northeastern with Senior Week. We held events including Senior Wills and Legacy Night, and arranged other fun events for the seniors to celebrate together as a more discussion-based platform which allows for increased dialogue regarding graduating class. We had our annual Tea Party on Sunday April 2, where we honored our sister Emily Horn with the Loyalty Award. We graduated 30 incredible sisters at the challenges that end of this week. Our Formal was our chapter faces most oftenlast event of the semester and was held on April 22 at the Taj Hotel rooftop in Boston. Our leadership is ultimately working toward sisters had a more collaborative environment to become more socio-economically accessible to great time celebrating all of their hard work and retain more members long-term. These efforts hope to create a more cohesive chapter in achievements with one another after another great semester before parting for the overallsummer.
Eta Tau has implemented a lot On the first Saturday of organizational changes aimed at creating a more efficient chapter. Our total shift to the GIN system is almost complete; we have successfully uploaded all documentsfall semester, formsSeptember 9th, our sisters attended our annual sisterhood retreat, and calendars to that system. Our last remaining step is to send all chapter correspondence out using located for the GIN interfacefirst time at YMCA Camp Beckett in Beckett, which should be complete by the end of this academic yearMassachusetts. The usage of committees has also been improved; new members have been assigned to committees Sisters spent time bonding and committee heads have been working to better communication with their committee members, enjoying each other’s company by playing games such as well as better utilize Red Rover and mastering the high ropes course the resources they provide. We have also implemented a new "committee recap" system in chapter, where one member of each committee stands up in chapter camp had to recap what has been discussed in their meetingoffer. This practice aims to increase regular chapter member participation. By Our sisters spent the end of this academic year, we aim to implement positions within each committee to assign tasks and responsibilities to better engage chapter members with leadership roles. All these efforts to increase chapter participation aim to culminate night in a greater effort on the part of the chapter cabins strengthening our sisterhood before returning to get to know our next LCcampus Sunday afternoon.
In Formal recruitment began the fall, over half of following Saturday and spanned two weekends. On September 25th our active chapter welcomed 41 excited new members received an academic distinction. We also celebrated Eta Tau's average GPA of a 3into our Kappa class.578. Throughout each semester, we provided chapter 2 members with a number of opportunities to excel academically our Kappa class were transfer students from Dickinson College and Marist College who were initiated into our sorority at their past colleges and professionalwere being welcomed into Eta Omicron with the new members. We booked private study rooms in hosted a Founders Day celebration at the library Northeastern Alumni Center on October 22nd for Kappa use only, debuted a number our sisters. Also in attendance were members of initiatives, such as the Study Abroad Spreadsheet, Major Buddies, Senior Coffee Chats, BIAA and KKG Alumni Network, members from the Harvard University and hosted Babson College chapters. We had a number of study breaks lovely ceremony and brunch to celebrate our fraternity. On October 29th our Nominating Committee met to slate sisters for our new Chapter Council. At formal chapter on Tuesday November 7th we selected our officers for members2017.
Furthermore, this year We hosted our chapter continued annual Owl Prowl on Wednesday November 1 to work towards the preservation of ritual provide another opportunity for active sisters and history despite our relatively new establishmentmembers to relax and get to know each other a little better. After our Registrar and Marshal reorganized and took inventory of our off-campus storage unit, we Our families were able very excited to purchase new white ropes for our 34 initiates to use grow at our recent Big/Little reveal that Friday, November 3rd. With initiation on approaching, our Inspiration Week began Sunday November 1112th. This was by far On Thursday, we held our most successful canvas/fleur de lis exchange for bigs and efficient initiation to date with every member of the Zeta pledge class being initiated togetherlittles. Three new members' moms were able to attend We held our Fireside ceremony that Friday November 16th after a week filled with sisterhood events and Initiation: Francesca Kehoe, Lindsey Schneider, and Peyton Shelburnebonding opportunities. Out of 34 new membersAfter Fireside, 28 ordered fraternity badges. Additionally, we now have a tthe soon-shirt blanket to use at recruitment that depicts the variety of events that our chapter has held over the past 4 years-be initiates and their bigs spent time bonding in a sisterhood cozy.
[[File:EtaTau2This year our chapter held 2 initiation ceremonies so that we could accommodate all of our new members and their busy schedules.jpg|thumb|Eta Tau at big-little revealOn Saturday November 18th we were ecstatic to initiate 38 new members into our chapter and pass 18 senior sisters through their final Red Room ceremony.]]During this ceremony, one new member was also initiated to the Delta Nu chapter of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. On Sunday November 19th, one senior sister went through her final Red Room ceremony and 2 more new members were initiated into our chapter. We could not be more excited to have welcomed 40 wonderful new sisters to our chapter!
In addition to welcoming 34 new members into our Our chapter this meetings are held in rooms owned by Northeastern. Chapter meetings were held in 201 Mugar Hall and 101 Churchill Hall in the spring and fallsemesters, Eta Tau has continued to make strides with our public relationsrespectively. This year public relations has increased dramatically as Our chapter does not have a house, lodge, apartment or suite, and we continue to build a positive relationship with the university administration. We have worked to ensure this by creating an online store to give members access to merchandise to represent never had one in our chapter on campus, designing and purchasing a banner to put up during all Kappa Kappa Gamma events, purchasing a camera for the chapter's use to increase history. Our last event of the photos that semester was our chapter hasSemi Formal, and increasing which was held at Guilt Nightclub in Boston on December 1st. Our sisters danced the understanding across the chapter of the importance of positive imaging online night away and across campus. Finally, we will be holding a hot chocolate event for celebrated all students during finals week as a stress reliever their triumphs and to exhibit achievements from the positivity that Kappa Kappa Gamma brings to Georgetown's campussemester.
The Education Chair and programming committee have also become Philanthropy played a larger, more dynamic presence major role in our chapterthroughout the year. We partnered with Alpha Epsilon Phi to host our annual Lip Sync for Life event on March 20th. Every month there has been On March 22nd, our sisters volunteered at least one programming night per month the Greater Boston Food Bank, where we incorporate Georgetown's motto helped sort food and make many meals possible for those in need. On March 24th our chapter participated in Northeastern’s Relay for Life event, raising a total of cura personalis$21, or care 879 for the American Cancer Society and were proudly named the top fundraising team for the event. We held our Reading is Fundamental event of the whole personspring semester on April 1st at the Orchard Gardens K-8 Pilot School in Roxbury Crossing, into our programming eventsMA. For example, we've had personal gender based violence presentations, discussions about sexual assault, SoulCycle classes, documentary screenings, improv troupes leading us in team bonding exercises, and wellness workshops in order to try and foster a sense this event 13 of holistic well-being amongst our sisters. We have laughed, bonded, and learned visited the value school to read Fish Out of balance through these monthly eventsWater to the first grade students and brought them all books to take home with them.
In terms of senior programmingOn Sunday October 15th we held our fall philanthropy event, our annual Kappa Kickoff flag football tournament. The event started at 2 PM and we've placed had a large emphasis on senior sisterhood with manicure events and self-defense workshops, as well as a bonding-based senior orientationtotal of 42 teams. We were very excited to have also continued doing senior wills, senior gifts, family letters, and a then-and-now style slideshowraised just over $1, to celebrate 100 for our graduating sisterslocal philanthropy Christopher’s Haven. AdditionallyOn Friday December 1st, we've celebrated Founders Day in a meaningful way; we've partnered with surrounding alumna associations to commemorate held our founders with a chapter-wide dinnerReading is Key event of the fall semester. For this event, presentations on 15 of our sisters visited the six founders accompanied by trivia and giveawaysfirst grader classes at the Orchard Gardens K-8 Pilot School in Roxbury, and a thoughtful ceremonyMA. We continued used the tradition of doing Founders Day awards, where money we celebrate had raised throughout the traits of our 6 founders semester to purchase books to give to each student, and present handed them out at this time. We read The Giving Tree to the women students and engaged in a fun, educational activity with them. Their enthusiasm and gratitude was palpable, and our chapter who also possess those traits with commemorative posterssisters truly loved having the opportunity to bring more literature into these children’s lives.
Outside Achieving our goals was a vital part of our 2017 school year. We successfully formed stronger relationships with the other Northeastern fraternities and sororities on campus and the greater Northeastern communities by creating a sign up sheet for every Fraternity/Sorority Life event to ensure that members of our chapter were present at every event, collaborating with and senior programmingsupporting other organizations on campus, the committee has continued and doing our best to have a positive impact on hold an event each month with our chapter's culturePanhel pair. We have started a monthly book klubincreased our sisters’ understanding and appreciation of rituals, bylaws, Wellness-Wednesdaysstanding rules, our first annual Family Weekend Open House and history by presenting a bylaw/standing rule of the week at chapter and in the local coffee shopTWIK each week, our First Annual Secret Snowflake gift giving event, feminist role model presentations during electionspracticing a ritual song at every chapter, and moreemphasizing both Kappa and chapter history throughout the New Member period. By starting Our chapter emphasized sisterhood in all aspects of these new chapter life and programming by promoting standards as a resource to strengthen relationships and mediate conflicts, encouraging rearranged seating at informal chapter meetings, and offering one internal sisterhood- and empowerment- focused eventsevent per month. In order to make better use of committees, our chapter chose to give members of the education chair committees titles or roles when appropriate, host one committee bonding event per semester, and programming create a group agreement per committee have certainly increased including method of communication and goals. Our final goal was to increase study hours by 50%, which we worked to achieve by encouraging sisters to log their presence study hours on the Gin System, rewarding the sister/group of sisters with the most study hours at the end of each determined period of time, and creating study groups and teams by major. For the spring semester we had the highest GPA on campus for the 4th semester in a row. In conclusion, 2017 has been a year of many accomplishments and sisterhood for the incredible sisters of Eta TauOmicron.
Overall, we look forward to the positive impacts that ==Highlights of 2018 Chapter Council and all members will make to continue this progress next year.==
During this past year, Eta Tau has engaged Omicron had an incredibly successful 2018! Early in philanthropy and service for others in a variety of ways both on and off campus. In addition January, we devised three main goals to continue to each member completing service hours that often included unique and interesting clubs outside of strengthen our chaptereven further: to improve accountability by increasing attendance, we have collectively partnered with other Greek better recruitment by refining organizational abilities and non-Greek organizations, raised awareness about important causesrefining recruiting skills, and donated money through fundraising effortsto ensure that there is respect and proper education for ritual.
In the fall March again proved to be one of 2017our busiest months. We started off with a spectacular sisterhood event at Rollerworld, where we spent most skated the night away in ‘90s fashion. As the beginning of Greek Week, a Monopoly-themed Relay for Life quickly came upon us. Through donations and our energy aiding Reading is Fundamental. We raised about Kappa Kaffeine booth, we were able to raise $800 dollars to go to 16,282 for the national RIF organization through American Cancer Society. Sister Cole Rifkin won Mayor of Monopoly, making our Family Weekend Brunch in addition to hosting a book drive that received about 250 books that will be going to DC Preparatory Schoolwhole chapter proud as we walked into the early hours of the morning. We crafted bookmarks With our Greek Week pairs, the brothers of Alpha Kappa Sigma and Lambda Phi Epsilon, we competed and placed second in both the spring annual dance competition, Greek Sing, and our sister Laura Shannon ran for Greek Goddess. During the fall which will Fraternity and Sorority Life Awards Ceremony, we were proudly honored to be going to DC Prep as well. Eta Tau also hosted a Reading is Fundamental station at named Northeastern’s Panhellenic Chapter of the Center Year for Social Justice’s Fall Fest where the entire chapter came second year in a row. Due to do Mad-Libsthe incredible efforts of the Chapter Council of 2017, we were also awarded the Academic Excellence Award, read fortunesearned the Highest GPA in Panhellenic, and play basketball with elementary school children in the CSJ’s tutoring programsour president, Sydney Smith, won Panhellenic Council Outstanding President.
Eta Tau has also been a helping hand We began to other organizations on campus this year. We purchased 50 books for close the Center for Social Justice last spring to help them finish their book wish list for tutors to read semester with studentsour Formal that was held on April 7th at the W. Our chapter members signed up Prior to run Sigma Phi Epsilon’s annual Halloween 5k formal, sisters gathered at a local restaurant for brunch in which preparation for the night of dancing ahead. During Senior Week, we celebrated all of the proceeds go to Doorways for Women hard work and Children, an organization that provides protection to survivors achievements of domestic violenceour seniors with Senior Wills and Legacy Night. We also hosted a bake sale held our Annual Tea Party at the 5k. Additionallyend of the week, where we participated in Delta Phi Epsilon’s collection of pads for honored Jessica Adrian with the homelessLoyalty Award. Our We officially transitioned 27 women into alumna status and completed the spring semester with a chapter collected a total GPA of 45 boxes of pads that went to N Street Village, a Washington D.C3. shelter that aims to empower homeless and low-income women596.
Our chapter has engaged Over the summer, three of our sisters attended Kappa Kappa Gamma’s national convention where we were awarded with other off-campus organizations by raising $1040 for a young Zambian girl named Advent through Save the Children in the springPublic Relations Award. We collected food donations received four honorable mentions for Washington DNew Member Programming, Excellence in Chapter Management, Gracious Living, and Academic Excellence.C. Capital Food Bank this Thanksgiving season. We collected For the second year in a row, we conducted a total of 113 boxes and cans of goods for the food bankSummer Health Challenge in which pledge classes competed to promote healthy living. We have also planned This challenge served phenomenally to sponsor nine children from the Georgetown School of Nursing Angel Tree to buy them presents for the upcoming holiday seasonimprove public relations as well as encourage keeping in touch over summer break.
FinallyFor the first weekend of the fall semester, our sisters attended our annual sisterhood retreat at YMCA Camp Beckett in western Massachusetts on September 8th and 9th. We focused on strengthening our sisterhood and put a large emphasis on ritual and the values we engaged were searching for with recruitment approaching so soon. Through high ropes courses and relay races, we were able to strengthen our local chapter of Relay for Lifebonds and return back to Boston on Sunday, exhausted but eager to start recruiting. Georgetown's Relay for Life, which Formal recruitment was held on April 21st and raised over $100during the following two weekends in Northeastern’s student center. On September 24th,000, $9,824 Eta Omicron excitedly welcomed the wonderful Lambda class of which was raised by 52 new members. We were thrilled to integrate a Kappa transfer from Syracuse University into our Eta Tau teamnew member class. At The new member period was filled with activities including the eventnew member retreat, many where women from our chapter painted faces, participated in the Luminaria Ceremony, their first Kappa Kozy and cheered on one of our own in the Survivors Lap. This fall, our team has already raised $605 for the 2018 Relay for Life eventwere able to get to know each other off campus.
Eta Tau looked both close to and far from home this year when selecting organizations to supportOn October 14th, we hosted a Founders Day celebration in Northeastern’s Alumni Center. While we hold our commitment to RIFWe were joined by alumnae, Relay for Life, and other Greek organizations constant year to year, Kahumanamembers of the BIAA, Georgetown's Center for Social Justiceas well as Gail Simpson Owen, Save the ChildrenFraternity President, Washington Dand Alpha District Director Andrea Stanfield who we were ecstatic to welcome to Eta O.CWe had a beautiful ceremony accompanied by a fantastic brunch and celebrated our fraternity with pride. Capital Food BankTo prepare for another successful year, and the upcoming Angel Tree were suggested nominating committee met on Saturday, November 3rd to slate our sisters for the new Chapter Council. At formal chapter by on Tuesday, November 13th, we elected our very own sisters. Working with organizations close to Chapter Council officers for the hearts of our members is a phenomemenal way to keep them involved in our philanthrophic pursuits2019 academic year.
Note The fall semester came to Chapter Registrar: • Please refer to your chapter archives including chapter meeting minutes a close with our Semi-Formal and Senior Wills. Semi-Formal was held on November 30th at Kingston Grille & Bar and back issues our sisters celebrated our accomplishments of The Key to fill in any gaps in the above historical highlights. • If your chapter archives are not complete, please research your university library, campus newspaper semester and yearbook archives for newsworthy information about your chapterdanced the night away. • Please double check your work Senior Wills was held for accuracythe twelve seniors who graduated in December. Contact The chapter Advisory or House Board members, local Alumnae Association members, or your Province Director of Chapters for assistancereminisced and was able to give the graduating seniors the sisterly goodbye they deserved. Your efforts will ensure These seniors were transitioned into alumnae status during a complete and accurate history of your formal chapter for future generations to enjoy!meeting on Tuesday, December 4th.
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|College= [https://www.northeastern.edu/ Northeastern University]
|Location= Boston, MA
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'''Eta Omicron, Northeastern'''
'''Northeastern University established in 1898 in Boston, Massachusetts'''
'''Chapter installed: October 26Founded March 27, 20132010'''
'''227 initiates as of (June 2018)86 charter members'''
'''367 initiates (as of June 2018)'''
'''Some of Eta Omicrons’s Outstanding Alumnae: (If you have chapter alumna who have received recognition in any of these three categories, please list them with the date(s) of recognition.)'''
'''Fraternity Alumnae Achievement Award RecipientsCouncil Officers:'''
'''Fraternity Loyalty Award Recipients:'''
==The Civil War (1861-1865) nearly closed Georgetown, as the student body dropped from 313 to 17 between 1859 and 1861. A total of 1,141 students and alumni enlisted in the war, serving in both the Union and Confederate forces. After the Second Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) in 1862, several campus buildings were turned into a temporary hospital. To celebrate the end of the Civil War, Georgetown students selected the colors blue (Union) and gray (Confederate) as the school’s official colors in 1876.Early Years:==
Outstanding Scholarship, 2013
Achievement in Leadership, 2014
==Highlights of 2013==
Founder’s Day was hosted on our campus and alumni, including recent graduates from our chapter, joined us for a brunch celebration. Our annual Kappa Kickoff philanthropy event had its biggest turnout yet, with 47 teams signed up, and raised more than $1,000 for Hope Lodge.
During homecoming week, we were paired with the gentlemen of Sigma Phi Epsilon, and won the annual dance competition, Take It To The Floor! Our new member period was eventful, with programming including a “Kappa Key-esta” for new members to meet actives, a Minute-to-Win-It game night, and a key and pillow exchange for bigs and littles. I-Week included many events such as our yearly Owl Prowl dinner, and culminated in the initiation of 31 sisters on November 24th.
Our philanthropy committee ran a t-shirt fundraiser and donated the money raised to the Kappa Foundation. We ended the semester with our Sapphire Ball, held at the Back Bay Hilton on December 7th. Our chapter’s GPA for Fall 2013 was unavailable at the time this report was submitted.
==Highlights of 2014==
2014 was an exhilarating and action-packed year for Eta Omicron! Some of our main focuses this year were to strengthen our sisterhood and further our philanthropic efforts. We began continued to go to our local philanthropy AstraZeneca Hope Lodge twice a month to play Bingo, bake cookies and talk to the year welcoming 47 new members into patients and guests. Some other philanthropic events we participated in were Cards for Troops with the ladies of Delta Phi Epsilon, the Muddy River cleanup, The Johnson & Johnson Games and serving food at the Beta pledge classNew England Center for Homeless Veterans. Bid Day occurred on FebOur sisterhood events included a trip to SkyZone, pumpkin carving, movie nights, a J. 2nd Crew shopping event, a workout at Pure Barre Boston, and the first annual post semi/post formal Brunch at Pour House. The 2014 spring semester was a great way to start the year. Our sister, Jennifer Cordero, was an exciting afternoon filled with laughterelected the first Panhellenic Secretary from our chapter. At Fraternity and Sorority Life Awards, our sister Kayla Arruda won “Outstanding Scholar” and our advisor, smilesJan Larson, won “Outstanding Advisor”. Our chapter achievements included “Achievement in Scholarship” and “Achievement in Leadership.” We also won awards for “Outstanding Scholarship” and picture taking“Outstanding Leadership. Then ” Overall we had big little reveal on Feb 27thwere ranked Bronze in Chapter Excellence. During Greek Week, which was one we were paired with the gentlemen of both Sigma Beta Rho and Beta Gamma Epsilon. We played an active part in the most fun evenings of last year! Nextweek’s activities, we had our philanthropy event participating in Greek Sing and placing 2nd overall for the semesterweek. We went to were also involved in Northeastern’s Relay for Life and were the top fundraising team, raising $12,386, for the second year in a local elementary row. At the end of the week we hosted our Reading Is Fundamental event at Samuel Adams Elementary school in DC where we . We read “The Rainbow Fish” to kids first-graders, played fish-themed bingo, decorated bookmarks, and donated books every child received a book of their own to take home. Formal was held on April 5th at Venue in Downtown Boston. As the semester came to their schoolan end seniors participated in Senior Week (S-Week) events as we graduated our last Alpha class members. It One event called Alpha Bid Day was inspiring held in honor of all the Alphas who never had the chance to see so run into the arms of loving sisters on bid day. We invited back as many Kappas passionate about helping Reading is FundamentalAlphas who were in the area for the event. Then we had We concluded the spring semester with our annual Love and Loyal Tea Party. Our chapter GPA for the spring formal, which semester was a blast! Next was initiation3.4, a special time for everyone as which surpassed the Beta class officially joined all woman and all sorority average. We had the family2nd highest-ranking GPA of all 8 sororities on campus. Over In June, 5 of our sisters attended the summer, we sent five girls to represent 2014 biennial Convention where Eta Tau Omicron won the Risk Management award and Honorable Mention in the Kappa Convention in Houstonareas of Ritual, Education, Academic Excellence, Texas. The girls learned so much about their respective positions and how to benefit the chapter as a wholePublic Relations. Beginning We started off the next 2014 fall semesterwith our sisterhood retreat at Camp Burgess in Cape Cod. In accordance with our yearly goals, we went extended the retreat to the Founders Day event two nights so that we could devote an entire day to sisterhood bonding after a long summer away from school. We also prepared for the local DC Kappa Alumni group hostedupcoming recruitment. It Due to feedback from the Panhellenic community, the recruitment structure was so amazing to see how ladies are so passionate about Kappa even beyond their college yearschanged again. Then we had our winter formal in December and Instead of having recruitment held over two weekends, it was brought back to being four days in a row. Recruitment proved to be very successful and we welcomed 36 wonderful evening full new members into the Zeta class of sisterhood and friendsour chapter on September 23rd. Now for our chapter goals. We first off wanted to improve knowledge of ritual across the entire chapter. We worked hosted Founder’s Day on this goal by our Marshal having office hours where she let people learn more about it campus and answered any questions active members might have hadof Eta Omicron and Zeta Alpha (Babson) chapters as well as alumni attended to celebrate with a brunch. During Homecoming Week we were paired with the gentlemen of Phi Delta Theta. We also wanted participated in the week’s events and won second place in the semester’s annual dance competition, Take It to improve sisterhood within the chapterFloor. The new member period was very eventful. We worked on this goal by increasing the number of sisterhood There were many events per month including “Kappa Kandy Land” and thinking of creative of fun activities Family Feud for the new members to do as a whole chaptermeet and socialize with the active sisters. For example, During Inspiration Week we held our VPS scheduled a Kappa Halloween pumpkin carving activity one night 2nd annual Pillow-Key Exchange for the bigs and littles and the annual Owl Prowl. The week culminated in October that all the initiation of our sisters loved! 36 new members on November 7th.
==Highlights of 2015==
Eta Omicron chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma had a delightful 2015 has been huge for Eta Tau! In this past school year. We started the year we saw with five main goals: to increase organization within committees and allow members the addition opportunities to gain more leadership; to focus on individual well being of two new pledge classes, sisters and strengthen the Gammas sisterhood of EtaO; to improve internal organization and structure of Chapter Council leadership; to increase Panhellenic involvement and visibility on campus; and to foster growth and the Deltasunderstanding and appreciation of Kappa. We were able to achieve all of these goals, for example by restructuring how we hold second chair position elections, adding lovely new sisters holding countless bonding sisterhood events and implementing a Chapter Council bonding initiative to our growing chapterhelp the council realize and appreciate each other’s skills and leadership endeavors. We were so excited are also proud to expand support our chapter sister Sneha Pandya who was elected to be Panhellenic President at Northeastern for the upcoming 2016 year. Some examples of the sisterhood events we put on included a kickboxing event, movie nights, pottery painting, ornament decorating with other chapters on campus, and J Crew and its crazy to see how much Brandy Melville shopping events. The Spring semester of 2015 started wonderfully for Eta Omicron as we have grown won “Outstanding Philanthropy” and “Outstanding Academics” for our chapter in just two short yearsthe annual Fraternity and Sorority Life Awards. We now have over 130 membersOur sister, Ashley Karsenty served as the Panhellenic Secretary as well. At the end of the school year, four of our sisters attended the biannual Province meeting.
We started out 2015 with recruitment were also very active in Januaryour school’s Greek Week, which went great! We especially enjoyed participating in Greek Sing and placing second overall in our Greek Week competitions where we were paired with the gentlemen of Delta Tau Delta and the help ladies of our LC SEDelta Phi Omega. She went own to visit us multiple times including initiation to help us set up As a perfect welcome kickoff to our new membersGreek Week we also participated in the annual Relay for Life on campus. In February we hosted a casino night philanthropy event that was a huge success, thanks to our philanthropy chair of We won the time, Tiana Chan! Now it was time Double Dare Competition and received $500 for initiationour team, which went was bringing our total fundraising as a wonderful time filled with kappa ritual and sisterhood bonding, all thanks team to our marshalover $16, Charlotte Kirks000.
Eta Omicron chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma had an exemplary 2016 school year. In January, we crafted five main goals that we hoped to accomplish within the year: to raise chapter GPA by 0.02 (to 3.4) by December 2016; to decrease unexcused absences by 50%, to have attendance of at least 12 women at Fraternity Sorority Life events and Panhel meetings, and further to have an appropriate number of teams at Panhel philanthropic events per the Panhel Chairwoman’s discretion; to increase understanding and appreciation of ritual; and to form a strong relationship with our new philanthropy.
In 2017March, Kappa Kappa Northeastern had its annual Greek Week, for which we were paired with the gentlemen of the Pi Delta Psi and Beta Gamma Eta Tau has continued to develop through a variety Epsilon fraternities. We participated in Greek Sing and Greek Goddess as part of opportunities both on the Greek Week festivities. During the Fraternity and off campus and seeks Sorority Life Awards Ceremony, our chapter was incredibly honored to make be named Northeastern’s Panhellenic Chapter of the chapter increasingly more inclusiveYear for 2016.
In the spring of 2017, we focused primarily on Kappa Karnival which took place in April. For were able to accomplish a remarkable amount, strengthening our annual Kappa Karnival on April 1stsisterhood, philanthropic relationships, we secured a co-sponsorship as well as our relationships with Georgetown University Hawaii Club the other sororities and donated all of the proceeds to Kahumanafraternities on campus. Philanthropically, a nonwe continued our bi-profit in Oahu whose mission is monthly visits to co-create a healthyChristopher’s Haven, inclusiveour local philanthropy, as well as hosted and productiveco-hosted several events throughout the semester. In January, farm-based community we partnered up with the brothers of Kappa Sigma to craft cards for those with homeless familieschronic illnesses. In February, people we visited Community Servings with disabilities, the gentlemen of Alpha Kappa Sigma and childrenprepared meals for those in need. We raised and donated $2000 to Kahumana. The also hosted our annual Lip Sync event itself was a huge success, as we had with the biggest turnout women of any of our Karnivals to dateAlpha Epsilon Phi, raising $1,123, with participation from all half of Georgetown's Greek organizations as wellwhich went towards Christopher’s Haven.
The fall was also filled with several events that deepened our bonds as sisters. We went apple picking at Brooksby Farm in Peabody, MA, attended an Xtend Barre class, carved pumpkins, relaxed together during a spa night, and even returned to Rollerworld and had even more fun the second time. We participated in Homecoming Week with our partners, the brothers of Phi Delta Theta, and competed in Take It to the Floor, the annual dance competition. Bigs were finally revealed to eager littles on November 4th, right before we hosted our annual Owl Prowl on November 7th. Here new members and active sisters were able to mingle and get to know each other better. This action-packed week was followed by Inspiration Week, where bigs and littles exchanged pillows and fleur de lis on Thursday night and we prepared for initiation with the Fireside ceremony on Friday night. After the ceremony, bigs and littles held a cozy in order to emotionally prepare for the upcoming ceremony in the morning. The following morning, Saturday, November 17th, we initiated the fifty-one new members.
In addition to all of our sisterhood events, philanthropy was one of our main focuses throughout the fall. We hosted our annual Kappa Kickoff event, a flag football tournament that we open up to the entire university. This year we were able to raise $1,356.13 for Christopher’s Haven. Through t----------------------shirt sales, we were able to raise $310 for Reading Is Fundamental. We organized a fundraiser for the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation at Love Art Sushi, raising $37.87. With the brothers of Alpha Epsilon Pi, we crafted card for the Boston Homeless Veterans Shelter and with the brothers of Delta Tau Delta, we created cards for Remy, a patient undergoing treatment at Boston Children’s Hospital. To support our national philanthropy, we visited Orchard Gardens Public School for our Reading Is Fundamental event on November 30th . Ten of our sisters read Make Way for Ducklings and bonded with the students. We are very proud of our philanthropic endeavors this year and we are excited to continue to watch our relationships flourish.