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Delta Delta welcomed twenty seven news members into our family during the Fall Recruitment.,. We are proud to say that this year our chapter enjoyed the best retention in years, as all the pledged new members were initiated!
Our Membership Chairman, Adrienne Bramson, ensured that we executed our strongest recruitment to date. This year's recruitment was smaller than last year’s- in which we pledged new members - because of the colonization of an Alpha Phi chapter at McGill University this semester..
The overall nature of our chapter did change as we played a large role in welcoming the founding women at McGill. Committees were set in place to help with the smooth transition and to support their growth at McGill.
The women of Delta Delta continue to support the Philanthropy events of other chapters on campus. We also noticed that Greek life is becoming more prevalent on campus as our chapters become more involved at McGill. Thanks to our Flair Chairman, Emily Yang, we are always in our letters on campus and showing the rest of the McGill community how brilliant our women are. Our chapter has continued with Delta Delta specific traditions like a modified Blue and Blue meeting during Inspiration Period, Black Formal meetings, "Nerd of the Week", "Fleur-de-Lys and Broken Keys"and "Hoots and Salutes", “Lady Minerva” scrapbook, and a “Supportive Sister” bra. We even started new initiatives like weekly prizes for people who come to meeting and a final prize to the woman with the best attendance this semester. The chapter also started Marshal Minutes during meetings where we highlight one or two aspects of our Ritual. Delta Delta Standards also has had a strong year, with many shining moments of sisterhood and improvements that have been implemented to improve how Standards can better serve our chapter.
Our sisterhood event in the winter was self-care themed, with yoga, make your own smoothies, and notes of love written by sisters. Over the Winter and Fall semester our VPS, Casey Osborne, worked closely with our President, Andrea Papini, her advisor Gena Boulay, and representatives from headquarters to increase Standards’s support of young women in the chapter who are struggling with their mental health. Delta Delta Standards began using the Alternative Standards Contract with girls who need support, and we have seen only positive results marked by increased overall attendance and less loss of membership.. Additionally, our VPO, Crystal Tian, sent out a weekly newsletter to the chapter members and meeting agenda to President and Recording Secretary, Mackenzie Akeson, until the Fall 2017 Leadership Consultant, Sydney Taylor, suggested a positive change in the system. We have implemented this change so that there is better communication between Chapter Council and the rest of the Chapter.
Our chapter GPA improved this year, bringing up to being named the sorority with the second overall GPA this semester. Our VPAE continued to do library crawls, rewarding women with the highest and most improved GPAs, and Nerd of the Week (which celebrates the woman who studied the hardest that week). She also created more specialized Period of Concern terms to help improve their areas of weakness. In addition, we are happy to share that one of our chapter members was a recipient of a scholarship from the Kappa Kappa Gamma foundation for this academic year!