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• Our sister Hayley McGlone, the Events Chairman of our chapter, has her great great aunt’s badge. This beautiful badge belonged to Martha Douglas and has the date 4-16-27 engraved in the back.
==Highlights of 2015==
Winter Semester:
Delta Delta conducted informal Winter Recruitment on the 19th, 20th, and 23rd of January. The first night was an apple cider, pate, and cheese mixer. The second round was a relaxed sugar cookie decorating event. The final night was a formal evening in which all sisters were dressed in black formal attire. Our chapter Initiated two sisters – Miyah and Abigail – on March 21st.
During our Winter Retreat we had Big & Little Reveal and several sisterhood activities. We shared special facts about ourselves and the sisters had to match each unique fact to the respective girl. Some of them included: "I have a fear of butter", "I am a black belt", and "I am 22 years old and have been to 22 different countries".
We are proud to say that Delta Delta was featured on the “Positive Public Relations” webinar on February since we created a new website for our chapter (http://mcgill.kappa.org) The website has helped us showcase our chapters’ activities and has been a great tool during recruitment for potential new members to see what we represent.
Our annual even “Spaghetti for Spelling” happened on February 13th to raise funds for First Book Canada and the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation. The event took place at the house of our brothers of Gamma Lambda Sigma Chi. Comrades from the Greek community and other friends of our sisters fought through the -30 °C temperatures of Montreal and attended the home-made Italian buffet. Overall, the event was a success and we were able to raise seven hundred fifty dollars!
Sapphire Ball at the Omni Hotel on March 14th.
Some sisters volunteered at the Mission Bon Accueil-Welcome Hall Mission by teaming up with some brother of the Alpha Sigma Phi chapter. This organization donates groceries, serves warm meals, hold workshops, and provides shelter for Montreal's homeless.
Fall Semester:
Our chapter conducted Fall Recruitment during a week in mid-September. We welcomed twenty-two new members to our chapter! On Bid Day we painted "KKG" letters, cooked some burgers and hot dogs on a barbecue to enjoy the warm weather, and had a great day doing ice-breakers and activities to bond as Kappa sisters. We initiated twenty sisters on November 15th and will be initiating the other two new members in our Winter Initiation.
We celebrated Founders Day yet again this year, but it was even more special since we pinned our Kappa alumna Gloria with her 65th year badge!
Delta Delta participated in McGill’s Right to Play’s Spin-a-thon on October 7th. Several of our sisters did spinning for six hours at the Y-intersection on campus next to a couple other fraternities, clubs, and varsity teams of our university. We were able to raise over four hundred fifty dollars for children’s educational programming.
Our philanthropic event “Kappa Klothing Drive” occurred during the final two weeks of October. It consisted of a clothing recollection for the Women’s Center of Montreal. With the help of fellow organizations in the Greek Community and our sisters’ loved ones we were able to fill twenty large bags with coats, shirts, sweaters, pants, hats, scarves, etc. just before winter comes!
We also partnered with McGill’s Homework Zone Organization on November 2nd to volunteer at the Pierre Elliot Trudeau School. At the school, our sisters read and held writing workshop for several children in the Fourth Grade. Fun activities were incorporated into the workshops and we provided each child with a book at the end of the activity to inspire the love of reading.
This semester we continued our support for ALS research by hosting our philanthropic dance-a-thon event “A Little Shuffle for ALS” on November 22nd. We collaborated with the brothers of Sigma Alpha Epsilon at the McGill Gymnasium Complex and raised one thousand two-hundred dollars for the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Society of Quebec. We had a dance instructor lead a class, and four Greek organizations choreographed different shows.
At the end of March we participated in McGill’s Winter Greek Week and won first place overall. Also, we are proud that Kappa Kappa Gamma was the organization who donated the most for the Benedict Labre House – a day center which provides meals, clothing, and several programs and services for the homeless in Montreal.
During the Fall Semester’s Greek Week – which took place from November 16th-20th - we partnered with the brother of Alpha Epsilon Pi and Alpha Delta Phi. We raised funds in a by-donation bake sale and won first place overall for the second consecutive time!
The Greek community in McGill University continues grow. This Fall Semester Sigma Alpha Epsilon established a colony on campus and the women of Delta Delta are proud to support the Fraternity’s expansion to Montreal.