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==Highlights of 2021==
We started off this year with virtual recruitment, leading to the eventual initiation of fifteen new
members. Following the process of recruitment, we were able to organize a fun virtual bid night
for all of the new members involving trivia and bonding games where new members and active
members were able to get to know each other better. We were able to hold a virtual initiation as
well and a virtual pinning ceremony. As the year progressed, we were also able to have a
couple of philanthropy events, which included donating dog toys to the local animal shelter,
signing and then donating books to the local elementary school, and completing individual acts
of service in the winter as well as having a fundraising event in the fall where we had games,
food, and a dunk tank. We also awarded the Sally Summer Flynn award to a member of the
2021 senior class that the chapter voted on as a whole. As for goals that the chapter had, one
main goal was to resume in-person chapter and committee meetings as well as have the
opportunity to have an in-person recruitment and initiation process. We have been able to start
having in-person chapter and committee meetings and we plan to have an in-person recruitment
and initiation process in the spring.
Chapter Philanthropy
Our philanthropy supports the organization of Mental Health Alliance. We support this
organization because we felt it was very applicable and relevant in the everyday life of our
members and was most strongly favored when voting on which philanthropy our chapter wanted
to support.
At the beginning of the fall semester we held a fundraising event to raise money for our
organization in which we had food, games, and allowed students on campus to dunk our
members in a dunk tank for donations.
We included diversity, equity, and inclusion in our chapter programming by having special
guests come to talk during programming chapters on topics of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
We also held virtual meetings where we watched educational films surrounding diversity, equity,
and inclusion and afterward held a discussion to debrief the film.
During the pandemic, we held virtual recruitment and initiation over zoom. We did recruitment
like usual with bump groups and one-on-one conversation with PNMs using break out rooms.
We also had virtual chapter and committee meetings until this fall semester when we resumed
in-person meetings. We also had virtual activity nights and general chapter meetings to help
reconnect with members not on campus or members not living in the house as social gatherings
in the house were not permitted at the time.
