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Chapter Philanthropy: As a chapter, Beta Beta always supports and raises money for Reading is Fundamental every year. During the spring, we have a traditional event called “Kappasta.” At this event we charge $5 for an all you can eat pasta buffet. All the proceeded of this event go towards Reading is Fundamental. This past semester, the Beta Beta chapter collected children books from home and donated them to the Church School in downtown Canton. We have become more involved with the Church School and participate in a number of their programs, which is important to us considering they do not receive as much funding as the public schools in the area. As far as on-campus philanthropy goes, we spearheaded the Giving Tree Book Drive. This organization sponsors a child in needs Christmas present. We really enjoy helping out our community and participating in philanthropic events. These events not only bring our chapter closer together, but also allow us to become a support system for our community.
==Highlights of 2019==
January – we held a book drive, with all books and proceeds going to the Canton Public Library because they lost over 400 children’s books in a flood.
February – our officers attended the Kappa Leadership Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. They attended a series of workshops focused on building leadership skills like conflict-resolution, trust building, and problem solving. March – celebrated International Women’s Day on March 8 with a leadership building activity that our officers brought back from the Kappa Leadership Conference. April – participated in Peter Rabbit in the Park, a local event hosted for the youth in canton. The chapter helped with egg hunt and face painting with local canton children. We held our annual KAPPASTA event on April 19, with all proceeds going to Reading is Fundamental. September – we welcomed our 17 new women on Bid Day. October – helped with face painting and cookie decorating with the local children of canton at the Annual Phantom in the Park festival. December – Attended the Special Olympics that was hosted by our school. Helped facilitate events all day. Held a scholarship dinner, where we gave roses to all Kappas with over a 3.0 last semester to honor their hard work. Victoria O’heir, Katherine Hargrave, Alison Clarke, Elizabeth Heikkenin, and Sally Roberts all received scholarships. ==Highlights of 2020== Covid-19 had a significant impact on the chapter’s operations this year. All of recruitment was virtual and we all agreed it was harder for us to get to know the girls during rush events than in past years when rush has been in person. Our bid day was on September 19, and it was held virtually on zoom, where we all congratulated our new members for joining our Kappa family. For inspiration period, we held a virtual chapter wide trivia night. This was a great way for our chapter to bond and get to know the new girls better.Our initiation was on October 16, held on Zoom, where we initiated six new members. We had a Founders day ceremony earlier that same day. We had a virtual celebration and for people living in the house, we had our dinner catered by a local restaurant. We displayed a powerpoint with the history of Kappa Kappa Gamma. For those in the house, we did a kappa house jeopardy, which was tons of fun! For philanthropy, we did a fundraiser for Black Lives Matter and the George Floyd Fund. These both occurred over the summer. We also recently did a food drive for the Canton Food Pantry for the upcoming holiday season. We also did a book drive for Reading is Fundamental pre-covid (January), and donated the books to the local school. The Vice President of Academic Excellence cancelled our spring semester scholarship dessert ceremony due to covid. We are having a virtual ceremony this semester, on December 4, 2020. There were no scholarships given in the spring semester, and scholarships are not decided yet in this current semester. Because of Covid, all of our chapter’s events have been virtual. Although this isn’t as great as having our events in person, it’s worked as a nice alternative for all of us to “be together” and stay connected. We decreased our dues by $275 due to covid and put everyone on four installments to pay dues, but some sisters had a hard time remembering when to pay dues. When we elected our new chapter council at the end of the year, it was really great to see some of our newest members show interest and get voted into positions, such as Mimi Macintyre as Recruitment Chair, and Sam Conzelman as Treasurer. ==Highlights of 2021== Our chapter has had a transformative year as we’ve followed our action plan to becoming a more unified and fulfilled chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma. [[File:Beta Beta Chapter 2021.jpg|thumb|Beta Beta Chapter 2021]] We have all been partaking in serving our community in a multitude of ways such as philanthropic events and helping at local businesses. Our goals as a chapter include more communication with the national organization of Kappa, unifying our chapter leaders through open communication and teamwork, and to build a strong relationship with our university, St. Lawrence University. Our chapter supports the National Eating Disorders Association because we believe that restrictive eating and other forms of disordered eating are extremely prevalent within a college environment, especially among women, and so we would like to draw attention and help to prevent eating disorders within our community. This year, we participated in conversations concerning cultural appropriation during Halloween and attended a workshop where we identified and worked to prevent cultural appropriations in costumes. We are working to have a bias training workshop in the coming months and will continue conversations within our chapter concerning diversity, equity, and inclusions. In the spring of 2021, we had recruitment and initiation online which was a different experience than any of us have had before. This semester, we were fortunate to have an in-------------person recruitment and initiation with the use of masks. We are fortunate that most of our members live in the house together, so can meet in person, but we took precautions when there were outside members visiting.