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|Founded= {{start date and years ago|1930|10|25}}
|College= [httphttps://www.duke.edu/ Duke University]
|Location= Durham, NC
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'''2,396 485 initiates (as of June 20152018)'''
'''Charter Members:'''
Janie Elizabeth Carlton, Mary Elizabeth Craven, Frances Lelia Currin, Florence Roney Dailey, Katherine E. Mary Davies, Edna Kilgo Elias, Mildred Moore Guthrie, Virginia Lucille Hobgood, Martha Howie, Dorothy Cornell Leary, Katherine Markham, Nancy Elizabeth Roberson, Margaret Rogers, Nellie Louise Sellars, Erma Elizabeth Williams.
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'''Fraternity Loyalty Award Recipients:'''
Emily Pott 2014,Samantha Klein 2015,Kate Eastwood 2016,Katie Perlman 2017,Rachel Eastwood 2018
'''Fraternity Alumnae Achievement Award Recipients:'''
Shelley Moore Capito, 2016,
Chapter meetings are held weekly in a university lecture hall. In the fall of 2012, Duke University created designating housing for all sororities on campus for the first time in the university's history. The 2015 Pledge Class was the first pledge class to all live with each other in the "Kappa House". The Kappa House is university owned housing on Duke's Central Campus. The Kappa House is a large multi-unit apartment building with one main common room and 10 four bedroom apartments. We have one of the largest apartment buildings on campus which allows a total of 40 sisters to live in the house.
==Highlights of 2015==
We have many bright and talented sisters in Duke University’s Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter. For this spring semester we achieved a cumulative and average GPA of 3.625. We received recognition as a Gold Chapter within Greek Community Standards at Duke. Our former President Katie Chaplin won the Greek PanHellenic President’s Choice Award this past year. We ran multiple philanthropy events on campus to raise money for Camp Kaleidoscope, a local camp that allows terminally ill children at the Duke Hospital to go to camp for a week worry free. We also donated and read books with a local elementary school with Kappa’s national philanthropy Reading is Fundamental. One of our sisters, Ali Cox, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and is teaching English abroad in Madrid this year. Another sister, Dominique Beaudry, was awarded as a Truman Scholar. And many of our sisters went on to take jobs and complete internships at amazing places such as, Google, Facebook, the Boston Consulting Group, IBM Watson, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Teach for America, the U.S. Consulate in Nigeria, and the Federal Government. Further we have some amazing student athletes in our mix. This past semester, Mary Elizabeth Bender, Cassie Pecht, and Christina Gibbons made it to the National Championship for Division I Women’s Soccer and came in second place. Further, Jordan Tucker of the Women’s Volleyball team was named ACC Player of the Week. We successfully completed another Kappa Konfidential as a chapter, discussing an important issue we saw our girls facing on campus. And as a chapter we strived to get more members involved with the chapter, outpacing that goal and leading as an Executive Board and senior class, showing our commitment and how important Kappa events have been to us.
One of the biggest changes that our chapter had to deal with this semester was Duke’s changes to the housing rules on campus, which directly impacted the Kappa Kappa Gamma house. Duke implemented a new rule that a certain number of upper classmen must live in the house going forward, when it has been a traditional right of passage for sophomore Kappas to live in the house together and for seniors to live off campus. Our Executive Board, and particularly our House Chair and President worked tirelessly to create a better working system that would not significantly impact Duke Kappas traditions. We have resolved most of the issue, by working with housing at Duke to allow executive positions to live in the house in place of upper classmen and working with Kappa incoming upperclassmen to figure out what would entice them to live in the house as a senior. Our chapter is filled with girls who are loyal, fun, and incredibly intelligent. They are motivated and driven and genuinely care about other girls in the sorority. Thus we have a strong sisterhood within Duke, but also which follows us once we leave the school.
Chapter Philanthropy:
What organization(s) has your chapter historically/traditionally raised money for, or donated hours to, in your community?
Reading is Fundamental, Camp Kaleidoscope, and the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation
Why did your chapter choose this organization(s) to support?
Our chapter chooses to support Reading is Fundamental because this is the chosen philanthropy for Kappa nationally. And we chose to support Camp Kaleidoscope because it is a local initiative that allows us to help send terminally ill children to camp. We also chose this philanthropy because many of our sisters at Duke participate in Camp Chasm, which is a partner camp and philanthropy.
==Highlights of 2016==
The sisters in Duke University’s Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter are incredibly talented girls and continue to thrive in philanthropic, academic, and extracurricular endeavors. Over the summer several chapter members represented Delta Beta at the Kappa Kappa Gamma Convention in San Diego, gaining unique insight that they thus shared and transferred to the chapter upon return to Duke in the fall.
This fall we were bestowed the honor as the “Big Sister” chapter to assist in implement the NC State chapter. We successfully aided their fall recruitment process, Bid Day, and most importantly Fireside and Initiation. It was an incredibly rewarding experience to facilitate the colonization of a new chapter, as well as a great opportunity to enhance our Rituals.
Furthermore, throughout the year, we ran multiple philanthropy events on campus to raise money for Camp Kaleidoscope, a local camp that allows terminally ill children at the Duke Hospital to go to camp for a week worry free. First semester, we organized a Kappa 5K, as well as an event called Kappa Kappaccino, in which we sold coffee and donuts during finals week. All these proceeds went to Camp Kaleidoscope. In the spring, we donated and read books with a local elementary school with Kappa’s national philanthropy Reading is Fundamental. This year, we successfully completed two more Kappa Konfidentials as a chapter, discussing prevalent issues that our sisters confront on and off campus. Kappa Konfidential is always a great way to bring our sisters closer together as a chapter, as well as address important topics. Our weekly chapter meetings are held in a lecture hall on campus.
One of our sisters, Christina Gibbons, won the 2016 Women’s Soccer Senior Class Award and graduated a semester early to play on the Women’s National Soccer Team. Another sister, Carly Stern, was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship. Several of our other sisters returned in the spring from their semesters abroad, studying and exploring in South America, Europe, and Australia. This coming summer and post-graduation, our sisters have earned wonderful internships and jobs at, Google, Facebook, the Boston Consulting Group, Parthenon, IBM Watson, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, and Teach for America or have been accepted to Medical and Law School.
Duke’s housing policy remained one of our biggest challenges this year. Our Executive Board, and particularly our House Chair and President continued to work indefatigably to ease the burden from our sisters, but this policy will endure as an obstacle for our chapter in the coming years. Nonetheless, the sisters of Delta Beta are the most genuine, ambitious, fun-loving, and intelligent girls, who never cease to support and respect each other. This passion for life and adventure drives our incredible bond and sisterhood both on and off campus.
'''Chapter Philanthropy:'''
What organization(s) has your chapter historically/traditionally raised money for, or donated hours to, in your community? Reading is Fundamental, Camp Kaleidoscope, and the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation
Why did your chapter choose this organization(s) to support? Our chapter chooses to support Reading is Fundamental because this is the chosen philanthropy for Kappa nationally. And we chose to support Camp Kaleidoscope because it is a local initiative that allows us to help send terminally ill children to camp. We also chose this philanthropy because many of our sisters at Duke participate in Camp Chasm, which is a partner camp and philanthropy.
== Highlights of 2017 ==
The year of 2017 was another outstanding one for the young women of Duke’s Delta Beta chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma. Both on an individual and collective level, our sisters have excelled as leaders in our community, with outstanding strides made in fraternal, philanthropic, academic and professional spheres. From a fraternal standpoint, our chapter of KKG received Gold Status at the end of our spring 2017 semester in addition to being recognized for Outstanding Fraternal Values. Furthermore, senior sister Rachel Eastwood was honored with the 2018 Nan Schiebel Award for exemplifying remarkable loyalty to the chapter and the fraternity at large. Sophomore sister Emma Schmaltz also represented all of the sisters of Delta Beta KKG at this year’s Kappa Leadership Conference. We have also continually worked to better our ritual practices, which have dramatically improved with the help of our fun-loving, optimistic and hard-working ritual chair Camille Hayward.
[[File:Delta Beta 2017.jpg|thumb|The sisters of Delta Beta celebrate the 2017 holiday season.]]
In addition to striving for fraternal excellence, the women of our chapter banded together for another year of fantastic philanthropic work. We continued our strong partnership with Camp Kaleidoscope, a local camp that allows terminally ill children at the Duke Hospital to go to camp for a week worry free, by organizing several fundraising events to support the organization close to our hearts. Over the course of the year, we both organized a Kappa 5k as well as an event called Kappa Kappaccino, in which we sold coffee and donuts during finals week to busy students, and donated all proceeds from the two events to the camp. Alongside these efforts, the young women of Delta Beta KKG also reinforced our commitment to RIF, our national philanthropy Reading is Fundamental, by donating books to the local Boys & Girls Club of Durham, NC. However, not only did we just share books and a few hours of our time with them this year as has been done in the past, but throughout the course of both 2017 semesters, our sisters made volunteering at the Boys & Girls a weekly event, returning time and time again to spend afternoons with the children there. With our incredible philanthropy chair Natali Rey, it was undeniably an outstanding year for the fraternity in this area of focus.
Our chapter chooses to support Reading is Fundamental because this is the chosen philanthropy for Kappa nationally. And we chose to support Camp Kaleidoscope because it is a local initiative that allows us to help send terminally ill children to camp. We also chose this philanthropy because many of our sisters at Duke participate in Camp Chasm, which is a partner camp and philanthropy. We have also developed a strong relationship with Camp Kaleidoscope at this point and wish to continue that in years to come.
Finally, from academics to extracurriculars to professional opportunities, our sisters have made tremendous accomplishments in 2017. Several of our sisters are writers and editors for Duke’s newspaper, The Chronicle, while many others teach their own house courses in the spring semester. We have Robertson Scholars and division I athletes, as well as four incoming teachers for Teach for America. Many of our brilliant Delta Beta KKG sisters have completed theses in their respective fields, worked in research labs throughout all departments of the university, and have accepted future jobs with incredible employers including Facebook, J.P. Morgan, Google, Ozy, Jet, and many more! It has been another amazing year with our sisters and we can’t wait to see what’s to come next for them all.
==Highlights of 2018==
Delta Beta held our annual 5k to benefit Camp Kesem, a summer camp for kids whose parents have or have had cancer. This organization is very important to many Duke students at large, and many sisters are counselors themselves. We also had “Kappa Kappuccino” to benefit the Kappa Foundation; many sisters tabled around campus selling coffee and donuts. Our biggest challenge of the semester was when one of our sisters was diagnosed with lymphoma this fall and Delta Beta came together to become “Team Maddie”. Almost the entire chapter participated in “Light The Night” to support the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Maddie has finished her treatment, almost fully recovered, and will be graduating next fall. Overall, this semester we practiced many of our traditions, embraced some new ones, and definitely came together to overcome challenges.
This was the last year that Duke’s central campus, home to Kappa’s section and many other Panhellenic sections, existed. The university is knocking the entire campus and all Panhellenic and IFC sections (where our common rooms are and where our sophomore class lives) are being moved to different dorms all throughout campus. Because of Delta Beta’s excellent standing with the university, we were placed into a newly renovated building in the heart of our iconic west campus. The chapter has embraced this change and our newest class is definitely excited to enjoy our new home.
==Highlights of 2020s:==
(Excerpts from chapter history reports.) Scholarship, group honors/awards, traditions, special events, changes on campus or within chapter, overall nature of the chapter, chapter goals, challenges and how they were overcome, etc.:
'''Housing:''' This semester we moved to our brand-new section on West Campus. The sophomore pledge class is living there and they absolutely love it. They love being able to wake up and walk right to class- a much shorter commute than we are used to from the now torn down Kappa section on central campus. Watching it get torn down was very sad and we all reflected on the amazing memories we had there but we are definitely excited about the brand new, bigger and better section on the heart of Duke's campus. With our new section on West Campus, we are now neighbors with a Duke coed selective living group called "Mirecourt". There was initially some tension between the two groups but as the year went on, many Kappas and "Mirecreations" have become unlikely friends. '''Philanthropy:'''Camp Kesem - we host an annual 5k for Camp Kesem because Kesem is an organization very close to many of our member's hearts. Especially as one of our own has recently beat cancer. We feel very connected to Kesem's cause to help children whose parents are fighting cancer. A corner stone of this semester was GIRLS Academy, a Kappa national event held by selected chapters working with local middle school girls surrounding why it's awesome to be a girl, inspirational women, respect for one self and others, leadership and service. This event went awesome for our chapter and made real impacts on the lives of 40 girls from Stanback middle school. We have begun planning Duke campus visits as well as other activities to continue this connection and influence on each other's lives. Founders Day: We had the most amazing Founders Day. We went to the beautiful historic "Hill House" where we hold Founders Day and Initiation every year. We gave away some monumental pins. On March 26, 1954, Kitty Harrison was initiated into the Beta Xi Chapter. Her mother was also a Kappa and when she was initiated, Founders Day didn't even exist. Kitty went on to be a tennis legend and icon. She served as the UNC women's tennis coach for 22 years and was inducted into the USTA Hall of Fame in 2004. She coached teams to 4 Atlantic Coast Conference team titles and 8 National top 25 finishes during her tenure and was recognized as the all-time most winning coach in ACC history in terms of dual match victories at the time of her retirement. This Founders Day, Duke and UNC put aside their differences, as the Duke Delta Beta Chapter was absolutely honored to present Kitty with her 65 year pin. Our president Rebecca Ross received the Nan Schiebel Loyalty Award. Sesquicentennial Celebration: We have been doing "Marshal Minutes" where I share some of the history and traditions of the Delta Beta before us. We are hoping to get a visit from the Minnie Stewart Van. Every year the biggest event at Duke and UNC is the UNC-Duke Basketball game. With Carolina Blue vs Duke Blue: for the day Blue and Blue takes on a whole new meaning. We really want to set up a blue and other blue themed birthday party where we get together to celebrate the blues that bring us together, rather than the blues that set us apart '''==Highlights of 2020=='''
This year , our chapter operations changed drastically because of COVID-19 and Duke University's strict social-distancing regulations. Because Duke discouraged all campus groups from meeting in person, we were not able to have any formal in-person gatherings. However, that didn't stop us from continuing chapter traditions and spending time together! We were able to shift all of our chapter meetings and events online, and we were even able to put additional focus on new chapter goals. This semester, our most important goal was focusing on diversity, equity, and inclusion within our chapter, and we worked hard at internal reforms to better our chapter's traditions. A large part of these efforts came from our education chairs, who spent a lot of time researching and implementing a more effective education program within our chapter. We had a chapter dedicated to implicit bias training, particularly targeting biases toward low-income students, heteronormativity, and skin color. Moreover, we decided to restructure our executive council to strengthen each member's voice and allow younger Delta Beta members to be more involved with council. This new structure involves
committees instead of individuals - a committee for internal affairs, external affairs, operations, and education - with one member heading each committee. We hope this will improve communication and further strengthen our bond as an executive council. There were also many efforts made to restructure and reform new member recruitment this year, but in light of COVID-19, we were not able to have any form of in-person recruitment. We are still finalizing what virtual recruitment will look like within Delta Beta and across all Panhellenic chapters at Duke. Socially, we had quite a fun semester, despite it being virtually! Our social chair did an incredible job putting together ZXoom events like funny trio games, and she placed everyone in the chapter on smaller groups we call "Blue Krews" a Delta Beta tradition. These groups were mixed with members of all ages and it allowed us to coordinate our own smaller group gatherings to get to know each other better. While our greatest focus was DEI and internal reforms within our chapter, we also put a great deal of effort into building our community and supporting each other as sisters during these isolating times.
=Chapter Philanthropy= We supported Step Up Durham. Step Up Durham offers free employment readiness training, personalized job coaching, employer referrals, and services to job seekers. They have helped over 600 families with children in need who have benefitted from employment raining. We chose Step Up Durham because in the past, the majority of our philanthropy efforts have beeline-day commitments or raising money. However, this year we decided to focus on a long-term, more sustainable commitment specific to the greater Durham community. We thought volunteering with Step Up would be a great way to continuously spend time with the organization over the next year, especially over Zoom and online, instead of a one-time event. Our roles as volunteer workers will include working as employment counselors, helping people research and community job leads, prepare people for interviewers, and help build resumes with one-on-one mentorship. We felt that as Duke students, we have access to so many pre-professiona resources, and we wanted to put our knowledge to its best by giving back to the Duke community.
=Diversity,Equity, Inclusion= As mentioned in our chapter summary, a great sum of our efforts were centered around diversity, equity, and inclusion across all facets of our chapter. Within the financial sector of our chapter, we were able to eliminate many of the costs to be a Delta Beta member. Our treasurer was able to get our dues down to $0, and PNMs who want to take part in recruitment will no longer have to pay a participation fee in the Spring. Regarding ritual, our President was nominated to serve on a committee of 16 people who worked to completely reframe legacy and implications of legacy policies in recruitment, as they have historically negatively impacted minorities. We are awaiting Duke Panhellenic guidelines before making any final decisions about what our recruitment process will look like with regard to DEI reform. Socially, we worked with other panhellenic chapter at Duke to put together an initiative that implements better accountability towards preventing sexual assault and misogynistic behavior among IFC/all-male organization on campus. To make an even greater impact on DEI and the greater social justice movement across the country this summer, our chapter also put together a Black Lives Matter 24-hour sprint in which we spent 24 hours fundraising, signing petitions, and calling government officials. ?Finally, our chapter also put forth lots of effort to get involved with this year'''Philanthropy:'''s presidential election. We sent out voting information to all Delta Beta members over the course of the semester, and as a chapter, we pledged the Duke Votes student group pledge. As an organization, awe pledged have 100% of eligible members register and vote, as welk as provide resources to all our members. We even offered office hours weekly for any chapter members who had questions about voting, from registration to sending i absentee ballots.
=Sesquicentennial Celebration=Our chapter didn't do anything on our own to celebrate the anniversary, but we extended the invitation to the National virtual ceremony to everyone in our chapter, and we were happy to have Delta Beta advisors and members join.
==Highlights of 2021==
The Delta Beta chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma set goals this year were to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion, which our amazing DEI chair planned and carried out several events and presentations on behalf of. We also had two incoming pledge classes over the course of the 2021-2022 academic school year, so recruitment and rush was a very important process. Fall 2021 recruitment brought in a pledge class of 36 sophomore members, followed by a Spring 2022 recruitment that brought in a new pledge class of 38 freshmen and 1 sophomore. Initiation for both of these pledge classes has been completed and we are very excited to announce that we have an incoming junior chapter member attending the National Kappa Convention.