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==Highlights of 20172018== This year was our most successful philanthropy yet, raising $14,283 for Reading is Fundamental. In comparison to the previous year, we have tripled the amount of money raised. We hosted our first annual Fleur de Lis Fundraiser, a Kappa silent auction. It featured various gift baskets including spa gift certificates, tailgating gear, marathon tickets, a Glassy Baby raffle, and much more. The event was open to all friends, family, and alumni and was hosted during Kappa parents weekend. We hosted our annual Kristy's Kickball tournament and a talent show for all fraternities and sororities participating. We also hosted a Beechers Mac'N'Cheese feed at the Kappa house that was a huge success, selling out within a few hours. This year we hosted our annual Trick or Treat alumni event. The Sunday before Halloween, we host the children of Kappa alumnae. The children go from room to room trick or treating and we have festive Halloween crafts in the dining room that active members help with. There was a lovely Alumnae Brunch hosted at the Woodmark Hotel that our newest New Member Class '18 was honored to attend. We had the honor of recruiting a fantastic new member class and we initiated 38 ! Wr are very proud of them and cannot wait to see all that they accomplished in the next few years at Kappa. We really pride ourselves as always falling in the highest standings for academics among the sororities at UW. This year we tied for first in grades winter quarter. The following quarter we were ranked 6th. Academically, we pride ourselves on our dedication and success. Our winter formal this year was quite the event. We hosted the event in a yacht and designed t-shirts to commemorate the formal. Our spring formal was hosted at a local venue, Fred's Wildlife Refuge, where we had a fun photo booth, snacks, and cotton candy. This fall we had a Kappa tailgate GAD before one of the home football games. This GAD featured catered breakfast food and Kappa tailgate sweatshirts. We also had numerous sisterhoods. One was held at a yoga studio and another at a fun tie dying sisterhood. Kappa parents weekend was an absolute blast. Each new member class had an appetizers social at some of the local parents' houses.There was a brewery tour at the local Pike Place Brewery the following day. On the tour, the families learned and saw the process of making beer. All parents were invited to attend the first annual Fleur de Lis Fundraiser in which all proceeds go to Reading is Fundamental. As usual we had our annual Mother's Brunch hosted at the Woodmark Hotel. We celebrated our mothers and honored the senior Kappas. In UW news, our football team had a successful season 9-3. At the Apple Cup, we beat WSU. On an academic note, CNBC published an article ranking UW as one of the top best universities in the world.
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The Huskies were ranked 2nd inPAC-12 North. With one of our favorite victors being beating Washington St. 41 to 14 in the Apple cup. The Women’s basketball team also got 2nd in PAC-12 in the winter. GO DAWGS!
==Highlights of 2021==
Philanthropy Kappa Kappa Gamma went through a lot of changes in their philanthropic goals this year! Kappa Kappa Gamma changed their central philanthropy from Reading is Fundamental to now focusing on different areas of mental health. Nationals selected 6 charitable organizations for each individual chapter to collectively choose to support, and Beta Pi chose the National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA). To support our new philanthropy, some of our members attended a NEDA fundraiser walk in Seattle this fall. We also remain supporting the Northwest Sarcoma Foundation as our local philanthropy. We support the Northwest Sarcoma Foundation in honor of PC 07 Kristy Lemond and PC 20 Kylie Rodgers. Our main philanthropy event this year was our infamous KKG Grilled Cheese Feed in the fall. All of our members did amazing advertising in the days leading up to the event, and as a result we had the biggest turnout we’ve seen in years! People were lining up down the block to get some our famous Beecher’s grilled cheese and french fries, and we sold out before the night was over. The combination of the food, music and dancing made for an amazing night of raising money for our philanthropies. We also had shirts made for the feed which we sold to raise money in contribution to both of our philanthropic organizations, with cool graphics designed by PC 20 Ava Razavi. In total, we raised over 2500 dollars from the grilled cheese feed!Beta Pi’s annual Philanthropy week, including Kristy’s Kickball and our Fleur-de-lis auction, remained on hold for this year due to health and safety concerns in the community. Panhellenic Involvement Two of our PC 20’s, Leah Weiser and Madison Powell, served as this year’s representatives on UW Panhellenic’s Leadership Council! Leah and Madison went to meetings every other week with two members from every other UW sorority where they would represent the voices of their member class, foster leadership development skills, and learn about how to get further involved in either Panhellenic or the University of Washington as a whole. It is an amazing community of strong women and leaders that want to be change makers in our community. Every year Kappa’s have loved this opportunity to network with new people and play a larger part in the Panhellenic community. Our very own PC 19 Chloe Bieraugel was a representative for her PC last year, and this year she was our Panhellenic Delegate on Council as she loves the network of unique and independent women that these positions provide. During Formal Fall Recruitment there was another all-Panhellenic sisterhood with games and food to relieve the stress of recruitment and come together as one. Social This past year we had a couple sisterhoods that allowed everyone to get a break from the craziness of school and bond with Kappas across each PC. We had an ice cream sundae sisterhood in the spring, a pumpkin decorating sisterhood in the fall, and a bracelet-making sisterhood during Inspiration week to bond with PC 21 before Initiation in November.Alumnae Relations Direct alumnae relations with Beta Pi have been put on a brief pause due to health and safety concerns in the community, but our nearby alumni networks in Seattle and Bellevue remain active! We have an amazing team of advisors and enjoyed an end-of-the-------year holiday celebration at Kappa with our advisors and succeeding council members to celebrate another successful year of Council. A variety of appetizers, gingerbread houses, and other holiday treats were provided. It was a great way to kick of the holiday season! '''Note In the fall, our New Members attended a virtual Founders Day ceremony where active members did traditional readings about our original founding members. It was a great way to Chapter Registrar:''' celebrate the founding of Kappa and its original sisters!Please refer to your chapter archives Recruitment In the spring we taught our PC 20’s the basics of the recruitment process, including chapter meeting minutes acknowledgement of both in-person and virtual components of recruitment that were adopted by UW Panhellenic this year. It went off without a hitch, and the practice made us very prepared for when Formal Fall Recruitment came around. We welcomed 24 new members into our home in September who were then initiated in November, and back issues we couldn’t love them more! PC 21 is a group of The Key unique, genuine and supportive women who have already brought so much life and love into Kappa! We couldn’t be happier with how seamlessly they have situated into life at UW and we can’t wait to fill in any gaps watch each of them grow and thrive, both as students at UW and as Beta Pis.This year Beta Pi is also participating in Continuous Open Bidding! So far, we have recruited two additional members who have already moved into the house and seem to love it as much as the rest of us!Academics UW Panhellenic recently made the decision to stop sorority grade rankings, but that didn’t stop the Kappas from trying their best and having outstanding academic performance all year long! In the spring Kappa had an average GPA of 3.49. In the above historical highlightsfall we had an impressive average of 3. If your chapter archives are not complete52, please research your university library, campus newspaper with an all-sorority average of 3.44 and yearbook archives for newsworthy information about your chapteran all undergraduate women average of 3. Please double check your work for accuracy4. Contact chapter Advisory or House Board Our memberslove the friendly competition of grade tracking, local Alumnae Association membersbut more importantly, or your Province Director they understand the importance of academics and try to utilize all available resources in order to succeed.Parent’s Weekend We had our unofficial Parent’s Weekend in the fall on the weekend of Chapters the homecoming football game against UCLA. On Saturday morning we had a casual Parent’s Weekend brunch at Kappa where families could eat and mingle before tailgating for assistancethe big game. Your efforts will ensure UW NEWS GO DAWGS!!! What an interesting year for the Huskies. Our football team is in a complete rebuilding phase with some new coaching staff and accurate history of your chapter bright hopes for the future generations . Regardless, our members were at every home game cheering on our beloved team at “The Greatest Setting in College Football.” Our men’s soccer team, however, has had a wildly successful year as they came as close as they have ever come to enjoya national championship! They recently competed in the College Cup finals and unfortunately fell 0-2 to Clemson, but we couldn’t be more proud of our Huskies!!