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|College= [httphttps://www.iastate.edu/ Iowa State University]
|Location= Ames, IA
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Additional Outstanding Delta Omicron Alumnae: Elva Allen, Graduate Counselor 1965-1966;Morgan Hulick, Leadership Consultant 2018-2019, Ritual/History Specialist 2018-
==Highlights of 2018==
This past year, Delta Omicron has accomplished many goals not only within our chapter, but in the greek community as a whole. Our first recognition as a chapter occurred in the Spring of 2018 when Kappa Kappa Gamma was awarded the title of Best Academic Programming and Best Social Justice Programming out of all of the sororities in the Panhellenic Community at our Vespers ceremony. These awards were due to the efforts of the 2017 Academics Committee and the Social Justice Chairman, who each implemented positive programming in order to better support our members and educate them on how to be successful in different facets of their lives. The Academics Committee continued to help women struggling academically in a one-on-one setting, celebrated academic successes through a scholarship brunch each semester, and implemented the Major Captain mentorship program along with a yearly motto to inspire our Chapter’s academic endeavors for the year. We also had a few of our women receive individual awards in the Spring Katie Nawrocki received recognition as the President of the Year and Elizabeth Garzon received recognition as Outstanding Service Woman. Over the summer, Delta Omicron was given the Standards Award at the Kappa Kappa Gamma National Convention due to the positive standards programming that our Standards Committee has implemented in the past few years. Delta Omicron also participated with Alpha Phi, Pi Beta Phi, and Farmhouse to compete in the annual varieties musical competition where we won first place overall as well as multiple caption awards.
At the beginning of the Fall semester, Delta Omicron participated in primary recruitment where we maxed out on our total and recruited at record return rates. Olivia Danner, our membership chairman, made both spirit week and recruitment a fun experience for everyone as we focused on values, sisterhood, and relationships with one another. This value based recruitment proved to be a huge success as we welcomed 44 new sisters into our chapter, and managed to have 100 percent new member retention throughout the new member period and the first semester.
The rest of the Fall semester was full of fun as Delta Omicron held a very successful philanthropy, Kappa with Queso, and performed well in traditional Homecoming activities. Our public relations chair, Julia Beswick, also held our second annual alumni event at the Iowa State alumni center, which consisted of dessert, conversation, stories and lots of laughs.
Our chapter has a consistently strong sisterhood and morale remains high among the women of Delta Omicron! Greek life on Iowa State’s campus continues to be looked on in a positive light as the members of the sororities and fraternities on campus work hard to change negative perceptions that can sometimes accompany the greek community.
Delta Omicron supports Reading is Fundamental, the KKG Foundation and Dance Marathon. Year after year Delta Omicron thoroughly enjoys supporting these organizations. Kappa with Queso, an all you can eat nacho bar, and Kappa Karnival, an elementary game night where children win books for prizes, are put on to support Reading is Fundamental and the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation, and Kakes for Kids, an all you can eat pancake breakfast, is put on to support Dance Marathon. Our chapter loves that we are able to experience first hand the difference that we can make in the lives of children through the Karnival and Kakes events.
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==Highlights of 2019==
==Highlights of 2020==
==Highlights of 2021==
This year Delta Omicron accomplished a wide array of tasks and continued to grow as a chapter. In the spring semester, we were awarded the second-highest GPA in the Panhellenic community out of 16 chapters. Our academic presence also flourished within the chapter by continuing our Geek of the Week programming, academic progress planning to support our struggling members run by our VPAE Lauren Swegle and her committee, and continuing to be active our kappademics Instagram page to hold contests, support, and motivate members during a trying time. Our chapter having the second-highest GPA was one of our highest/main honors this year. However, we also had 18 members receive a 4.0 GPA in the Spring of 2020.
Kappa Convention wasn’t held this year, therefore, we didn’t receive any awards. However, some of our members did have the opportunity to attend the Kappa Leadership Conference in January to interact with other chapters and gain insight on how to better our chapter. Our members recognized this as a great interactive opportunity and learned a lot about how to motivate our members, deal with difficult conversations and attend workshops on sisterhoods and burnout.
Our chapter continued to remember, learn and honor our traditions throughout the year by participating in rituals reviews, celebrating founders day in October, and initiating our newest members. This fall we successfully initiated 29 members into our chapter, spearheaded by our Marshal Lauren Price. We adapted to performing a Combined Service due to COVID-19 restrictions but did everything to make it special and memorable for each and every member. I-Week, or our inspiration period, was another great way to make our new members feel special and involve our initiated members through gift-giving and sisterhoods.
Our chapter also held and participated in a variety of special events this year such as Initiation, Recruitment, Greek Week, Homecoming Week, sisterhoods, socials, and a fall formal. Greek Week in the spring and Homecoming Week in the fall is a great way for our chapter to get more involved in the Panhellenic community and the Sorority and Fraternity community by being paired up with different chapters and competing in events, raising money for charities, and supporting one another. We had multiple leaders step forward during these times to serve our chapter and the communities at large.
Recruitment in August was another special time for our chapter as we were able to come together a week before to prepare and bond and then successfully recruit 29 members thanks to our Membership Chairman, Sidney Scott. We continued to uphold our valued-based recruitment and hold each other to a higher standard while bonding and meeting hundreds of amazing young women.
We also held multiple sisterhoods throughout the years to come together, boost morale and support each other. These sisterhoods included coffee trucks, trips to the pumpkin patch, DIY spay days, Easter egg dying and so much more courtesy of our VPS Emma Ver Steeg and her committee.
Hosting and attending socials with other sororities and fraternities and formals was reinstated this year after a brief hiatus because of COVID-19. All of these events were fun and engaging thanks to our Events Chairman, Natalie Rock, and executed safely and within all guidelines and restrictions thanks to our Risk Chairman Grace Stepanek and Cameron Quance.
At the beginning of 2021, our Chapter Council established goals of boosting morale, engaging the committees, and getting members more involved in and out of the house. After another successful year in Delta Omicron, I am happy to share we have accomplished that and are excited for years to come in this amazing chapter.
What local organization does the chapter support and why?
Children’s Miracle Network. We support this organization because it helps many families and children in need who are going through difficult times. The money we raise for this foundation goes towards Iowa Stead Family Hospital where many children and families stay for treatment. We raised money for this foundation through our event Kakes for Kids in the spring. This event looked a little different this year due to COVID-19 but we were able to host a successful cupcake drive-through to raise funds.
How did the chapter support Kappa’s philanthropy?
Our chapter supported Kappa’s philanthropy by hosting a philanthropy event in the fall called Chips, Cheese & KKG’s where we raised over $5,000. We donated that money to Mental Health America as well as the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation.
How did your chapter include diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in your programming this year?
Our chapter included DEI initiatives throughout the year in our social justice programming provided to our sorority by our Social Justice Chair, Brianna Nelsen. A survey was sent out to all of our members to ask what specific topics we are all interested in learning about/what we’re striving to be more educated on. This allowed us to narrow our educational programming and dig deeper into issues we all deal with. Our chair Brianna Nelsen also brought in a speaker from nationals to discuss Diversity, Equity and Inclusion specifically and how we can be better sisters and members of society.
How did your chapter operations change due to COVID-19
Our chapter’s operations looked different this year due to COVID-19 but were improved from the previous year. For example, every member of our chapter and the Panhellenic community was required to wear a mask during recruitment and respect the boundaries of others. Regarding initiation, we didn’t invite our new members to sleepover at the house and adapted to a Combined Service to avoid the close quarters of red rooms to make ensure everyone felt comfortable and to do our part in keeping everyone healthy.
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==Highlights of 2022==