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|Founded= {{start date and years ago|1935|12|06}}
|College= [httphttps://www.lsu.edu/ Louisiana State University]
|Location= Baton Rouge, LA
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'''Louisiana State University established in 1860, Baton Rouge, Louisiana'''
Our chapter supports St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital because we believe that these children deserve the chance to receive the treatment that they need. While these families already have to deal with the struggles that come with the sickness, we attempt to alleviate financial issues by donating our philanthropic funds. Kappa Kappa Gamma also supports Reading is Fundamental because this program benefits the children that are here in our own community. We donate money and books to the children at undeveloped schools. Members of our chapter visit these schools and have one-on-one time to meet and interact with the children that these books are going to. It is so rewarding to see where our money is going and how much joy it brings to the children and their families.
==Highlights of 2019==
Our Chapter President, Dani Hebert received the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation Scholarship this past year. Anna Duplechin and Helen Mason recieved the LSU Accounting Scholarship. Sarah Crump, Mary Oliver, and Rainey Charbonnet were elected to the Interior Design Club executive board. Caroline Mitchell received the Kappa Kappa Gamma Scholarship. Anna Huthnance received the Ruth Vordenbaumen Award. Elizabeth Cole received the NWLA SHRM Scholarship. We participated in a tradition we have had here at LSU with Phi Beta Phi called "Monmouth" where we do a friendly field day competition. Our goal was to put on a successful recruitment and get a great pledge class. WE are in a temporary house, while our new Kappa house is being built, and we did a great job and reached our goal. We had a few girls attend the convention in Atlanta with one of our advisors.
The recent changes on campus include the new instated rule of no hard alcohol at Greek life
events. Since there was a death of a fellow Greek like fraternity member on LSU's campus,
this rule has been in place. There is also a new hazing policy and there is a zero tolerance for hazing on
LSU's campus. The chapter's overall nature is cooperative with these new rules in place
and we understand why these are important rules to keep all of Greek life safe.
The Delta Iota chapter supports the St. Jude's Dream Day Foundation. We choose to support this because the
co-founder Ms. Marty, was an LSU Kappa herself. We help put on an event on her farm in Clinton, Louisiana for St. Jude's patients and their Families.
To celebrate Founders Day this year, we rented the ballroom at the student union and had a sit down catered lunch. The whole chapter, our House Mom, and advisors come to celebrate Founders Day! We ate lunch and then we had a short reading about the Founders (Chapter council members read the parts of the Founders). This year we started the tradition of giving an award for each founder and the girl who receives it is someone who embodies their attributes. We also honor all of our members who got a 4.0 GPA or higher in the previous semester. We kicked off the sesquicentennial, 150th anniversary at Founders Day this year. There will be more celebrations to come next year from the new Executive Board, as our chapter pilots the new officer structure for the Fraternity.
==Highlights of 2020s==
Spring 2020 was an exciting and unpredictable one. Members were able to enjoy our spring formal on February 14th and participated in exchanges before the chapter and university closed due to the pandemic. Following the closure of the University and Delta Iota, communication became even more important than before with meetings and classes being conducted virtually. The summer also proved challenging as it was unclear what the formal recruitment process would look like until the University’s Panhellenic office decided to make the shift to a totally virtual recruitment. Although many things were done differently, the spirit of Kappa remained the same this fall. Some of the major activities held included virtual recruitment, bid day, virtual initiation and ritual ceremonies, “pod” events, and the excitement of a brand new house! Despite the roadblocks put in our path, Delta Iota has worked hard to excel in academics, sisterhood, communication, and Panhellenic involvement, which we hope to continue and to put to use once we are able to return to normal. Our “pod” events were used as a replacement to larger sisterhood events due to in person limits of 10 people. These “pods” were available to all and allowed members from different member classes to interact in ways they may not have been able to before, such as, going bowling, getting manicures, carving pumpkins or just grabbing dinner and a movie! Women from all four member classes stepped up as pod leaders and organized an event each week with a given budget. These events allowed for deeper connections between different ages to be made due to the more intimate group sizes and all those who participated enjoyed attending these events! Hosting virtual events proved to be a challenge at first but was managed with grace. Chapter President, Grace Gardere ’17 and Primary Recruitment Director, Alyssa Bellelo ‘17, had the opportunity to put on Delta Iota’s first virtual recruitment and get our chapter’s largest new member class of 106 impressive new Kappa women! Our Ritual and History Director, Reese Kelso ’18 and Founders Day Coordinator, Anna Harris ‘18, worked together to host a ‘Which Kappa Founding Member Are You? Founders Day raffle and celebrate Kappa’s 150 year anniversary. The two also planned and coordinated Delta Iota’s first ever virtual initiation, successfully initiating 104 New Members in a new way, while maintaining the beauty and integrity of an in person ritual ceremony. The chapter was incredibly eager to see the new house and those that currently live in the house were anticipating move-in day all summer! The house not only meets, but exceeds the Chapter’s needs; it is spacious, elegant, functional, and Delta Iota is so grateful that we get to call it our home. Although we were not able to have large groups come to the house this year for sisterhood events or chapter meetings, we look forward to hosting these at the house in the future. Academically, the chapter continues to improve. The current chapter GPA is 3.718, which is higher than the All-Sorority and LSU All-Women GPA averages. Our members received a variety of internships and scholarships over a wide range of disciplines as well. COVID may have changed the way the chapter operates, but Delta Iota took this chaos and improved in spite of a hectic year.
Delta Iota chose to support the St. Jude’s Dream Day Foundation because the co-founder Ms. Marty, was an LSU Kappa and the Chapter enjoys supporting her Foundation. We help put on an event at her farm in Clinton, Louisiana each year for St. Jude's patients and their families called “Dream Day”.
Delta Iota added a DEI officer, Karen Assenga, to inform and promote the chapter’s members on this topic. Karen has done an exceptional job covering topics such as: cultural appropriation, bias, and prejudice. She is knowledgeable and approachable and has improved Delta Iota’s knowledge about DEI. We look forward to seeing how this position continues to teach the chapter and help us grow more by upholding values of inclusion, celebrating diversity and ensuring equity.
This year we held an informative session with facts about our Founders and held a Founding Member themed raffle. We also celebrated by looking at pictures from alumnae of Delta Iota. Founders Day was the largest celebration of our Sesquicentennial.
==Highlights of 2021==
Delta Iota supports the St. Jude’s Dream Day Foundation who sponsors an annual Fishin’ Galore Day right here in south Louisiana. This organization was founded by a Delta Iota Kappa and we are happy to continue to support and attend the event each Spring!
Delta Iota donated a third of its fundraisings from the Kappa Klassic Golf Tournament to the KKG Foundation and another third to Mental Health America. We look forward to exploring the opportunities our new Fraternity Philanthropy brings to us in the upcoming spring semester.
In the Spring of 2021, we held a chapter wide DEI Programming event that was very informative on properly including diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in our chapter events, as well as our in individual lifestyles. This fall we changed our DEI chair into a slated Director position and Peyton Harvey was elected as our first ever DEI Director in December of 2021.