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From Over the year, the Epsilon Pi chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma has participated in many events on the UC Riverside campus, and has been tremendously rewarded for its involvement and service in the community. We started off the year in January when we welcomed and transitioned the new leaders of the chapter during leadership day. This was a special time because the new officers were transitioning into their new positions and learned from the old officers everything their position entails. In February, the new chapter council was excited to start working on Parent’s Day which is a day where all the girls bring their parents together to show them what Kappa is all about. Our Parent’s Day was February 24, celebrated with brunch and set up by the Public Relations Chairman. Throughout the day, we awarded advisors and members for their dedication to the chapter, and had presentations about our chapter history. There were tables setup that displayed old archives like old composites, and scrapbooks for the parents to see. It was a great time for the members and their families to come together to take pictures, and learn Kappa’s history. We also had our sisterhood in February, where all the girls dressed in cute pajamas and went to the movie theatre where they had a viewing of Pitch Perfect. Many sisters came in matching pajamas, especially bigs and littles. The chapter even had a contest for the cutest pajamas, and the winner got a prize. Our biggest event in February would have to be Reading is Key, our philanthropy that is put together entirely by the Philanthropy Chairman. We went to a local elementary school, where we held many activities such as face painting and crafts for the kids to do. The theme for the day was “Under the Sea”, with many decorations and books set up for the day. The whole chapter came throughout the day and managed the different stations for the children to go through. Our goal was to show the kids how much fun reading and learning can be, so we had many books for them to see and an individual copy for them to take home. The kids were very excited and we even had a few sisters get on stage and do a reading of the books to the children. In March, we started the month with composites. All the girls met in the Highlander Union Building and got their portraits taken, which was set up by the chapter’s History Report: ScholarshipRegistrar. We ended the month with our semi-formal, set up by our Event Chair, where the whole chapter comes together for food and music. Our semi-formal was March 3rd in Downtown Riverside, where we celebrated a lovely evening with appetizers, a photobooth, group honors/and dancing. April was a very busy month with many fundraisers and awards. We kicked it off with winning Delta Gamma’s Anchor Splash, traditionswhere the members in the chapters won a dance and swimming competition. Our team came together and held many practices in order to make sure their routine was perfect. Not only did we participate in Anchor Splash, special eventsbut we also were involved with the blood drive, and held a yogurtland fundraiser for our philanthropy. Mid April, we held our scholarship dinner at Cheesecake Factory where the chapter was awarded with their academic achievements. Throughout the night, there were a lot of awards to give considering the drastic rise in our chapter’s GPA. This was put together by our VP Academic Excellence and there were different awards such as ‘Highest GPA’ or ‘Most Improved GPA’. It was a great way to celebrate the academic achievements of the chapter and recognize all the hard work we put into for school. We ended the successful month off with our participation in Powderpuff which is a greek soccer tournament held by Phi Kappa Psi. Prior to the Pillar’s Awards, we have Pillar’s week, which is a week of competitions that organizations do on campus as teams. We were the red team, changes and our panhellenic chair along with our chapter council made sure we participated in all the tasks they gave us. The Chapter Council and the President put in countless hours filling in the forms and requirements for Pillars week. The award accounted for many things such as how involved the chapter is on campus or within , how much attendance does the chapterhave at other organizations and philanthropy, overall nature and how well our academics and community service is. All the hard work paid off when our chapter won “Chapter of The Year” and the “Service Award”. It was a very exciting night that made the chaptervery proud of its accomplishments. In May, we got to celebrate our achievements at our Formal, which is a night of celebration for the seniors. The chapter goalscame together for food and dancing all put together by our Event Chair, where we handed out awards to all of the seniors for the end of the school year was approaching fast for them. We also kicked back and had our sisterhood, a kappa luau. Our VP Standards put together the luau where we hung out by the pool, got snacks, had cute hawaiian decorations and took pictures. It was a great way for our sisters to bond under the sun. We ended May with our second biggest philanthropy, A Day in the Life, which is also entirely put together by the philanthropy Chair. We had local middle schoolers come to UC Riverside, where we took the kids on tours, played fun games with them, and answered all their questions about college life. First we welcomed the kids to the campus, and played games with them to get know their names and interests. We then started by taking them on tours, based on their different teams, challenges and ended the day with snacks and refreshments for the kids. The chapter showed them how they were overcomegreat school and education can be, etcand hoped to inspire them to pursue a higher education.:
'''Philanthropy:'''As June started, the school year was coming to an end and many sisters went home for summer vacation. While some sisters were doing internships, or going on cool vacations, the girls that stayed in town started working on recruitment. The membership chairman along with her committee spent many days tabling meeting the new students of UC Riverside, and answering all their questions about our chapter. Before the start of school, the chapter came together for recruitment workshops where we all learned songs and recruitment etiquette. It was five days of practice that really brought the chapter together in time for welcoming the potential new members into recruitment. When school finally started again, it was time for Formal recruitment which was all managed by the Membership Chairman. The chapter was so excited to welcome home the class of Beta Eta at our olympic themed bid day put together by our New Member Chairman. Following Bid Day, the new members got a weekly sapphire that guided them throughout their first few weeks in the chapter. One important event in October was our Founder’s Day, put together by the Education Chairman. On October 10, the chapter came together at the Canyon Crest Country Club, where we celebrate with brunch and presentations of the founding of Kappa Kappa Gamma. We remember the six founders and the symbols that make Kappa so special to all of us.
'''Chapter Convention Awards:'''==Highlights of 2020s==
-----------------------We support our local Elementary School Madison Elementary which is in an under served community.We chose this school, to only because we’ve worked with them many years prior, but also because a alumna from Epsilon Pi Chapter hasworked as a teacher there in the past and explained how our chapter could positively impact the students
'''Note We appointed a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion chairman and she aided in all the programming that was being planned as well as sent out little reminders throughout the quarter on how to Chapter Registrar:''' Please refer to your chapter archives including chapter meeting minutes be inclusive and back issues of The Key how to fill in any gaps in be more conscious through the above historical highlights. If your chapter archives are not complete, please research your university library, campus newspaper and yearbook archives for newsworthy information about your chapter. Please double check your work for accuracy. Contact chapter Advisory or House Board members, local Alumnae Association members, or your Province Director of Chapters for assistancegroup me.
Your efforts will ensure We appointed a complete sesquicentennial chairman who would kept us updated on new and accurate fun stuff from HQ as well as would share various chapter history PowerPoints and we were so lucky to have been visited by the Minnie Steward Van to celebrate such an amazing milestone! During Founders Day we joined on zoom together as a chapter and did our Founders Day ceremony and then join the zoom call with all of your chapter for future generations our sisters nationwide to enjoy!share this special moment in history.
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'''1,108 127 initiates (as of June 20172018)'''
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'''Fraternity Council Officers:'''
Kyle Donnelly, Fraternity Treasurer, 2022-2024
'''Fraternity Alumnae Achievement Award Recipients:'''
'''Additional Outstanding Epsilon Pi Alumnae:'''
Kyle Donnelly: Fraternity Finance Committee (2006-2008), Province Director of Chapters (2008-2011), Assistant to Fraternity Treasurer (2011-2014), Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation Finance Committee (2011-2012), Scholarship Reader (2015-2018), Fraternity House Board Chairman (2018-2020).
Ella Gaumer Vieria: Traveling Consultant (2000-2001), Province Director of Chapters (2005-2009), Technology Committee (2009-2010), Regional Director of Chapters (2010-2012, 2012-2014), Long Range Planning Task Force (2013-2016), Assistant to Director of Chapters (2014-2016), Public Relations Content Director (2016-2018), Leadership Education and Development Committee (2018).
Yvonne Kim: Province Director of Chapters (2011-2015).
Vicki Hill Carrigan: Kappa Trainer (2010-2016), Publications Committee (2010-2014), Technology Committee (2010-2014), Leadership Academy Facilitator (2012, 2016, 2017), Betty Brady Award (1995), Coordinator of Chapter Support (2014-2016), Convention Committee - Music Chairman (2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022), Adviser Academy Facilitator (2016), Kappa Leadership Conference Facilitator (2018-2019), Ritual & History Specialist (2019 - 2024).
Jessica Coffield: Nominating Committee (2014-2016), Standards Specialist (2016-2020), Kappa Leadership Conference Facilitator (2018-2019), Standards Director (2020-2024).
Traci Evans: Programming Specialist (2016-2018), Kappa Leadership Conference Facilitator (2018-2019), District Director (2022-2024).
Stephanie Hammond: Public Relations Specialist (2019-2021).
Kim Braun Padulo: Province Director of Chapters (1987-1988), Province Director of Alumnae (1989-1990).
Hailey Grisel: Leadership Consultant (2015-2016), Philanthropy Specialist (2016-2017).
Meredith Hutcheson Reuter: Chapter Consultant (1990-1991), Province Director of Chapters (1993-1995).
Lise Haxton: Traveling Consultant (1993-1994), Chapter Consultant (1994-1995), Chapter Support Committee (2004-2005)
Small "get to know each other" parties were held at the Bannockburn pool, so that all the women could get to know each other better and create stronger sisterhoods. They also held exchanges. Epsilon Pi had an annual "walkout" in which the pledges would plan to "kidnap" actives and have them do funny antics like sing Kappa songs and Kappa Dances at different stops on campus like the library, residence halls, and classrooms. Every stop would earn them a clue that would lead them to the location that the pledges had chosen to host them for dinner. They experienced the debut of MTV and this spurred lip-synching contests in the dorms, which were a blast!
After just a few years of being established Epsilon Pi was honored to participate in founding of a new chapter chapters of Kappa Kappa Gamma at the University of California, Irvineand University of California, San Diego.
Epsilon Pi held many different Philanthropy events such as making rabbit-like Easter baskets to give to the Sunshine School in Riverside, dressing up around Halloween in costumes and visiting the Riverside Community Hospital patients with candy. One popular tradition was a "Grandparent Adoption" from convalescent homes where the chapter women would visit their adoptee twice a month and bring them carnations and homemade spice ropes.
Chapter Convention Awards:
==Highlights of the 1990s==
Epsilon Pi choses to support this organization because it gives us the opportunity to work hands on with the youth in our area. It is amazing to see our service and donations impact the the lives of the future of our community. Epsilon Pi prefers the face to face interaction that we get from our events such as Day in The Life and Reading is Key, rather then simply just raising money and handing in a check. It is so rewarding to see how our philanthropy affects these young students for the better.
Epsilon Pi typically meets once a week for chapter meeting in a larger classroom or lecture hall on campus. ==Highlights of 2017== In 2017 Epsilon Pi Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma achieved many things and participated in many philanthropic and social events within our greek community and the real community surrounding Riverside. At our Pillars Award ceremony, hosted by Panhellenic, we were rewarded with the award of Best Chapter Management honoring our Chapter Councils hard work in managing our chapters affairs. Starting slow in January with fewer events following our winter break, we kicked the year off with the Scholarship Dinner which was held on January 26th. Our Scholarship Dinner was put on by our Vice President of Academic Excellence with the help of her committee. It was held at the Old Spaghetti Factory in Downtown Riverside. Every girl was provided with dinner along with our advisors and various alumnae who attended. Throughout the night the Vice President of Academic Excellence gave out awards based on members' various academic achievements the previous year. This event celebrated members who may have had great academic improvements ad promoted the importance of academic achievement in our chapter. In the following month Epsilon Pi was a bit more busy. The first event in February was a sisterhood event which was put on by our Vice President Standards. This sisterhood was held at Build-a-Bear where members each made two bears. One for the member to take home and one to donate to Loma Linda Children’s Hospital. This sisterhood was a good way for members to get together and bond as well as do something good for the community. The following weekend on February a team of Kappa sisters participated in Gamma Phi Beta’s annual Moonball which is a volleyball tournament that helps raise money for Gamma Phi Beta’s philanthropy. Not only did members play in the tournament, they also came out to support and cheer on their sisters who played in the tournament. February 10th is when Epsilon Pi held their annual winter philanthropic event, Reading is Key. During this event the chapter went to a local elementary school, Madison Elementary, and decorated their multipurpose room up to the theme which was carnival. First grade classes got to come to the MPR throughout the day and the chapter facilitated many activities for the kids to do. These activities were things such as face painting, coloring, and the final station being chapter members reading a book to the children. At the end of the day each child got to go home with a book of their own. Also, the chapter donated books to the school as well. The final event Epsilon Pi held in the month of February was a sisterhood with Gamma Phi Beta. The chapters came together and decorated cookies for Valentines Day. The chapters also did Ice Breaker games and just bonded. Lastly, in the month of February chapter elections were held. The new chapter council was elected and joint Chapter Council Meeting was held the last week of February. March of 2017 kicked off strong with a sisterhood held with the girls of Delta Gamma. Our chapters got together and tie dyed shirts together and hung out at a local park. This sisterhood allowed our chapter to bond with a Panhellenic sister which we don’t often get to do much with strengthening our Panhellenic bonds. On March 3rd a group of Epsilon Pi members volunteered for Read Across America at a local elementary school. They got to spend the day reading and promoting literacy to the children in our surrounding community. Later that evening on March 3rd, we held our Semi Formal put on by our Event Chairman along with the help of her committee. It was held at a local country club and many Alumni joined and it was a successful event barring a few mishaps along the way. Following Semi Formal Leadership day was held for the new and old Chapter Council members on March 5th. Leadership day was planned by our Vice President of Organization in order to allow the time for old Chapter Council members to teach new Chapter Council members what their new job entailed and all the responsibilities their new job required. At the event all the advisors for the various Chapter Council positions were there and also met with their new officer. Also the new Chapter Council got to discuss goals that they wanted to achieve in their time in office and all the things they wanted to improve within the chapter. Many things were discussed that day and the new Chapter Council got a great start and great motivation from each other and the advisors to start their position strong and make some good changes within the chapter. The following meeting the new Chapter Council members were installed into their positions. Throughout the next couple of weeks Epsilon Pi was involved in a philanthropy called Miss Minerva held by a fraternity on our campus, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. This was a pageant type fundraiser that helped raise thousands of dollars for their philanthropy with the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. Kappa helped in this by having one girl volunteer to represent our chapter and do various fundraisers throughout the weeks leading up to the competition. Epsilon Pi also participated in a similar philanthropy held by another fraternity, Delta Tau Delta, titled Delta Queen this philanthropy helped raise money for the City of Hope Cancer Research Foundation. Both the representatives for both events held many small events to raise money for each chapter’s philanthropies. These events varied from holding fundraises at local restaurants to coming up with small clever fundraisers to do on campus at letters. One example of a small fundraiser held by our Delta Queen was titled Kolor a Kappa where people paid money to throw paint at members of our chapter. Although it doesn’t sound very eventful it was a vey successful event help on our campus. Epsilon Pi itself helped raise a large amount of money that we donated to each chapter’s philanthropies. These events also strengthened our ties within our Panhellenic community because every chapter had a representative and all the chapters competed against each other hopes to win the pageant. April was a rather slow month compared to March aside from the various activities going on with both Miss Minerva and Delta Queen. April 22nd Epsilon Pi held a social event with fellow Fraternity on campus, Delta Chi. Members of both organizations got together on Earth day and volunteered at our campus garden the R’garden. Members planted plants and tended to the garden at our school. The following week Epsilon Pi had a visit from a Leadership Consultant. She stayed with our Vice President of Organization. While she was here she attended our chapter council meeting and visited with each member of Chapter Council to see how they were adapting to their new position. The Leadership Consultant was very helpful to our chapter giving the Chapter Council guidance onto how to deal with the problems in our chapter. On April 25th Epsilon Pi held another sisterhood event which was a kickboxing class held at the local UFC gym. The members of Epsilon Pi all joined together sweated and laughed while working out all together. On April 29th Epsilon Pi was involved in Alpha Chi Omega's annual philanthropy the Carnation Carnival. Epsilon Pi held a both making Kappachinos and a both doing a coin toss at the event. Sisters volunteered to work both booths throughout the day. The following day Epsilon Pi participated in Delta Gamma’s annual philanthropy titled Anchor Splash. A group of girls got together to compete in various competitions throughout the day. Epsilon Pi winning one of the events which was synchronized swimming. All in all the busy weekend was a success for Epsilon Pi. May 2017 was a very busy month for Epsilon Pi starting off with Salads with Seniors an event for the seniors and alumnae to get together and to have a lunch starting the seniors' transition from active member toan alumnae. On May 5th Epsilon Pi participated in a powderpuff football tournament held by Fraternity Phi Kappa Psi. A group of sisters got together and formed a team competing against other chapters in a football tournament. On May 11th Epsilon Pi’s annual Sapphire Ball was held at a local venue in Downtown Riverside. This event was thrown by our Event Chairman throughout the night seniors got recognized and celebrated as this is their last formal Kappa event of college. On May 17th Epsilon Pi held another philanthropic event called Day in the Life. At this event Epsilon Pi bused over 6th grade students from Madison Elementary, the same elementary school that was collaborated with for Reading is Key, and did many activities with them. The 6th graders were given a tour of our campus and done various smaller activities with. This philanthropy is very near and dear to our hearts because it allows us to promote higher education to kids who may have no knowledge of what college is like or why it is important. Parents' Day was held on May 21st at Indian Hills Golf Club. Thrown by the Public Relation Chairman, Parents' Day was a brunch for both members of Epsilon Pi and their parents. During the brunch, awards were given out to outstanding members of our chapter. Also, during the brunch presentations were given to the parents from various Chapter Council members, such as registrar and education chairman, about the history of Kappa Kappa Gamma as a whole and Epsilon Pi Chapter itself. Overall Parents Day was successful in showing the parents why Kappa Kappa Gamma is such an important organization and what it does for their daughters. The week of May 22nd was Pillars week where our whole Greek community comes together to do various activities throughout the wee, some competitive activities and others to raise money. At the end of this week a banquet is held to give out awards to chapters for various achievements throughout the year. Epsilon Pi was awarded with Best Chapter Management celebrating our Chapter Council's recent achievements. On May 24th the Education Chairmen held a final sisterhood for the seniors. This sisterhood was held at a local trampoline park, Skyline, where the seniors were allowed to jump and hang out with each other one last time all together. The sisterhood retreat was held on May 27th and 28th at a house in Corona. Sisters got together and had a giant sleepover at a house. During this sleepover sisters bonded doing various ice breaker activities and watching movies and such. It was very successful in the bonding of our chapter. The next week starting May 30th through to the beginning of June was sports week for our Greek community. Epsilon Pi participated in many of the sports such as football, soccer, and volleyball it was very successful having teams in every event throughout the week. June 3rd was another philanthropy that Epsilon Pi held in order to raise money to donate to Reading is Fundamental. This philanthropy was a Kappa Karwash. Sisters got together at a local burger joint and washed cars in order to raise money for Kappa’s national philanthropy. The next few weeks of June events died down because it was the end of the quarter and finals were nearing but our Vice President of Academic Excellence did hold a Kappa Study Party on June 11th for all our members. She rented out a study room at one of our campus libraries and held a study party for all our members. At the study party she provided many things for our sisters such as scantrons, blue books, and pencils sisters might need for their finals. During the moths of July and August sisters were home for the summer, yet the recruitment chair along with the help of her committee started to prepare for recruitment. In September the week before school started recruitment workshops were held September 21st through the 26th. At these workshops sisters learned songs and practiced all the things that needed to be perfected before formal recruitment. Formal recruitment was held October 5th through the 8th. Bid day was then held on October 8th at a fellow sister's house welcoming home our new pledge class Beta Zeta. That following Monday, October 9th, the new pledge class was formally pinned and their new member education began. October 14th our Founders Day brunch was held at Canyon Crest Country Club. It was a brunch held by our Education Chairman in which celebrated our Founders Day. It was a very successful first event with our new pledge class setting the tone for them for the rest of the year. In the following weeks new members got to meet with the sapphires weekly leading up to big and little week which occurred the week of October 23rd. That Friday, October 27th, big and little reveal was facilitated by our New Member Chairman on campus. Following reveal the new members were driven to an active's house where they had their first sleepover as a pledge class. They bonded with the New Member Chairman and with each other throughout the night. Sunday October 29th was Epsilon Pi’s October Sisterhood which was held at The Pumpkin Factory, a local pumpkin patch. Sisters got to bond with their new littles and with the new pledge class. The Week of October 29th through November 3rd Epsilon Pi was visited by another Leadership Consultant who checked up with Chapter Council’s progress that they have made this year. The Leadership Consultant also was able to come to chapter meeting to meet with new members and give a presentation to the whole chapter on the importance of attendance. The Leadership Consultant visit was successful in that she was able to help out chapter council with any guidance they needed leading their way into initiated the new pledge class.
On November 4th Epsilon Pi participated in a philanthropy held by fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon. This philanthropy was a soccer tournament for the various sororities to compete against each other and raise money Epsilon Pi had two teams competing in the event and took both second and first place in the tournament. On November 10th Epsilon Pi competed in another sports related philanthropic event held by Phi Kappa Sigma. This event was titled The Phi Kap Olympics in which teams competed in various activities and games. Epsilon Pi also took first in this philanthropic event as well. Inspiration Week started on November 13th, this being the period before initiation where girls sit back and think about Kappa and the true meaning and values that Kappa instills in each of its members. Throughout that week our Philanthropy chair held Epsilon Pi’s first philanthropy event for the school year being a Kappa Canned food drive. Epsilon Pi collected cans and donations from various greek organizations on our campus with an incentive that the organization that donates the most cans will get a $100 check written out to their philanthropy. This however was a bigger success than our philanthropy chair had expected with around two thousand of cans donated and around $350 raised. On Thursday November 16th Epsilon Pi held their Big and Little Night put on by our Marshall. Big and Little Night was held at a local ice rink, IceTown, where sisters skated and bonded with their family lines. November 17th Fireside was held for the new members followed by initiation the next morning. On November 27th chapter elections will be held for the new Chapter Council. On November 30th Epsilon Pi held their Date Party at a minor league basketball game. On December 3rd Epsilon Pi’s Vice President of Academic Excellence planned a Kappa Study Party so sisters can get together and study before finals in our on campus library. On December 6th the Education Chairman held a senior sisterhood where the seniors meet at a sisters house and decorated ornaments and cookies to celebrate the holidays. Through all these success for Epsilon Pi Chapter throughout 2017 the chapter’s morale has gained strength. All in all 2017 was a good year for Epsilon Pi.
==Highlights of 2020s:2018==
The new members finally got to find out who their bigs were during big and little reveal. During that week, bigs decorated their little’s rooms and gave them secret hints as to who they were. The bigs decorated cute boxes and popped out of them to surprise their littles, and the boxes had cute themes to them. In the month of November, the chapter had big and little night, which was put together by the Marshall and was held at a roller skating rink. Bigs and littles spent the night roller skating around and taking cute pictures in their matching outfits. We ended the month off with our participation in Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s soccer tournament to raise awareness for cancer. We had our strongest soccer players compete against other sororities and we were able to win first place. It was a great way for the chapter to come together, and for the Greek community as well to raise awareness for the cause. In the last meeting, November 26, elections were held for the new chapter council, and the chapter spends one last meeting together before the year ends.
Ultimately, it has been a very successful year for Epsilon Pi. Not only did we win many awards, but we were very involved with other philanthropies and fundraisers. Our philanthropies main goal is to encourage kids to learn, read, and pursue a higher education. We do that by emphasizing the importance of reading and going to college, for these kids to understand that education is very important.
Starting out our Winter Quarter of 2020, on January 5th our newly elected chapter council had their first chapter council meeting as well as the following day, January 6th, we had our first formal meeting of the quarter where new officers got formally transitioned into their positions. On January 11th, we scheduled and attended our first leadership day where we invited advisors, outgoing cc, as well as incoming cc to create a smooth transition for new positions. On January 26th our newest pledge class had their new member retreat where they got to rock climb on the ropes course at UCR. On January 31st we were so fortunate to celebrate our 150th anniversary of the organization by being visited by the Minnie Stewart van! On February 6th we held a social with a Panhellenic organization, Alpha Chi Omega. On February 26th, we held our annual Reading is Key event at Madison Elementary where it was Alice in Wonderland themed and we read and did crafts with the 1st grade classes. On March 1st we held our Semi-formal event where we danced the night away with all of our sisters. On March 2nd, we participated in a joint philanthropy event with Sigma Pi Epsilon at a local elementary school reading to kids. On March 6th we held our Winter Sisterhood event at Hangar Trampoline Park. During the week of March18-22nd, we began our finals week while transitioning to a complete remote learning environment. Although many of us assumed we would be coming back after spring break, we ended up coming to terms that we would be having both our Spring and Fall Quarters completely online. On April 1st we held our first virtual meeting through zoom. On April 14th we began to review and evaluate the best and worst case for the budget with the treasurer. On April 26th we began to reevaluate and get on the same page for tackling the actions on our action plan. On April 29th we supported Denim Day virtually through our platforms. On May 27th we decided on the budget proposal and to put all of our members on a payment plan due to pandemic circumstances. On June 16th we raised and donated $2,700O to act able. On September 26th we began recruitment workshops every day until to 30th. On October 8th through the 11th we held formal recruitment through zoom. Although this process did look a bit different than usual years, everything ran very smoothly as we conducted conversations and voting on zoom and in break out rooms. On October 11th, we welcomed our newest pledge class, Beta Iota to the chapter as the bid day theme was Kappa and Co. We held our New member pinning ceremony on October 12th. On October 13th we all joined the zoom call with our chapter first to go over some history fun facts as well as conduct our founders day ceremony then joined the zoom call with our sisters across the nation to help celebrate our 150th milestone! On October 12-16th our lovely leadership consultant Cait Berosh held a virtual meeting with a majority of our chapter council members. On October 18th we held a virtual committee night.
On October 22nd we held a virtual COB night where we welcome a few more members to our new member class. On October 25th we were visited by a facilitator from HQ for a Aspiring to a higher type of Sisterhood Workshop. On October 29th we held a Spooky fall quarter sisterhood where we all carved pumpkins together. On November 4th, we held a sisterhood where we made fun PowerPoint on random topics. On November 13th we held big little reveal where a majority of new members got their bigs. On November 16th-20th we began Inspiration week where we did various writing prompts to reflect on our values as well as had big little night on November 18th. On November 18th the rest of the new members who were COBs got their bigs as well. On November 20th, our new members were officially initiated into our chapter. On November 16th we were presented with the slate from the nominating committee. On November 23rd, we held chapter elections where we elected prospective new officers. On December 4th we held a virtual baking sisterhood with a Panhellenic organization Gamma Phi Beta. On December 7th, we held our last meeting of 2020 and the quarter and after finals we will begin winter break.