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In 2004 Epsilon Delta received the Chapter/Advisory Board relations award (honorable mention).
In 2010 Epsilon Delta won the Standards award.
==Highlights of 2011-2019==
Adelphi Commons is a University dormitory facility that houses all of our Panhellenic Sororities. Each sorority has a “cluster” that is set up similar to a dorm, but is more private to each house. Our cluster houses 30 girls, with most girls living in a double room and sharing a bathroom with the adjacent room. We also have a full kitchen, study room/loft, and a chapter room that is utilized as a living room. We were very excited to have our chapter room redecorated at the end the summer (thanks to our House Board) before the next group of sisters moved in for the 2015-2016 school year. Members that live in Adelphi enjoy House Dinners monthly which provides another way to connect with sisters and build our sisterhood.
==Highlights of 2016==
This year the Epsilon Delta chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma has been hard at work. Our spring semester began in January with an all house retreat at a local mansion to help us strengthen our bonds in Kappa before beginning our Continuous Open Bidding process the following week. On January 31st, we had the delight of hosting Lesly Stern for a Risk Management workshop. In February we held our annual Kappa Krush date party, followed by hiking and lunch for Dad’s Weekend the next week. Our Vice President of Standards organized a sisterhood at a Phoenix Suns game that included unlimited food and time spent on the court post-game with our sisters. Spring big/little reveal and initiation was held in March along with Greek Week to close out the month. April was an exciting month as we held our spring philanthropy, Kappa Kickoff, which raises money and books for RIF. This year we included “Kappa Con Queso” where we raised money through sales of Nachos and Quesadillas from a local food truck. We also raised funds through apparel sales and penny wars throughout the week, concluding in our final event of a flag football tournament between participating fraternities. Next, we participated in Lambda Chi Alpha’s annual Watermelon Bust Philanthropy, benefitting Feeding America. We closed off the semester with a couple of events honoring our seniors: Senior Will Night and our annual Sapphire Ball.
Preparation for recruitment began in summer as our Membership Chairman, members of her committee and her adviser put in many hours to make recruitment run as smoothly as possible. This culminated in the beginning of August when work week began to help prepare the rest of the chapter for the recruitment process. Recruitment was a huge success and resulted in welcoming home 91 new members on bid day! We held a pool party bid day activity to celebrate our wonderful new members that was catered by Auntie Ann’s Pretzels and Rita’s Italian Ice. We held a Social Event with Sigma Tau Gamma where we dressed up as our favorite decade for the “Throwback Thursday” theme. Our annual Barn Dance took place on October 15th, and our final date party of the semester will be “Kappa Kappa Gatsby” on November 19th. We were thrilled to welcome the new members into our Kappa families on October 27th and are looking forward to Initiation on November 12th.
In addition to the fun social aspects of this fall semester, we have been working very hard on revamping our fall philanthropy and working closely with both our local and national philanthropies. Our new fall philanthropy is called “Key to Kappa”, which will continue to raise money for our local philanthropy, Sounds of Autism. A member from each participating fraternity will work to raise as much as they can through fundraising, apparel sales and percentage nights at Dave and Busters and Summits Yoga. Winners will be crowned on November 17th after participating in Sounds of Autism trivia, a Kappa apparel fashion show and a talent competition. On October 28th, we will be holding a RIF event at Vector Prep and Arts School where members will volunteer reading, face painting and crafting bookmarks with the kids. We are ecstatic about what we have accomplished this semester and are looking forward to our plans for next semester. Inspiration Week took place November 7th-12th where we initiated our new members and bonded over our beautiful ritual. We closed out the semester with electing our 2017 Chapter Council and are ecstatic to see them excel in the coming year.
==Highlights of 2020s:==
