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Our sisters are staying as involved as ever representing Florida State University as well as the Panhellenic community. We continue to have involvement as serving executive positions on all three major philanthropy events: Light the Night, Dance Marathon, and Relay for Life and look forward to continuing to serve as active participants in these organizations excelling as top fundraisers for all three. In the Panhellenic community we have sisters representing the greatness of Epsilon Zeta through sharing their passion for empowering women as serving various executive roles through Panhellenic. We have also had an abundance of sisters serving to help potential new members find their homes as rho gammas and team leaders.
In the spring we partnered with our sister sorority across the street, Pi Beta Phi and held our first carnival themed event called Carnival for a Cause where we had cotton candy and fair games on Jefferson Street to support our philanthropies that both involve supporting children’s literacy. We also held our annual nacho bar, Chips for Cheese with KKG’s which is always a huge hit. We continue to volunteer in the spring at Gretchen Everhart where we read and play with the special needs students in what we like to call “Owl Read with You.”
This last fall, after our hard work and fun during recruitment, we had the honor of initiating 72 new members of PC 19 into our sisterhood and feel so grateful to share our values with them as they begin to grow during their time here in Kappa and Florida State.
We are proud of our involvement outside our chapter as well, serving in leadership positions and being active members in other clubs and organizations that fuel our passions. To mention a couple: Student Government Association, Best Buddies, Global Scholars, Big Bend, Florida State Alternative Breaks, Design for America, American Sign Language Association, Stryke Magazine, Clutch Magazine, and Garnet and Gold Scholars Society. Panhellenic also now has a magazine called Philia that offers articles on all things happening within our chapters at Florida State and we are proud to read the issues that our own sisters have contributed to.
We celebrated Kappa’s 149th birthday and are excitedly waiting to honor the 150th year this next October. Sisters have participated in celebratory social media contests and the songwriting competition for the “On the Road to 2020” to ring in Kappa’s 150th birthday.
In the fall, we switched up our philanthropy event to goat yoga! We went to Goat House Farm here in Tallahassee and invited friends to come “Relax for Reading” benefiting our philanthropy, Reading is Fundamental. This event was a true success as we graciously surpassed our fundraising efforts from years past.
Speaking of success, Kappa was given the honor of being placed as Florida State’s Homecoming award winner. Through our sisters partaking in school-spirited events throughout the week, the points we earned led us to first place where we were awarded a trophy for our recognition.
This upcoming Spring as we transition into our new Chapter Council, we will be following a new organized layout of executive positions. Our chapter has been chosen by Nationals to adopt this new chapter council setup that will offer more opportunities to get involved in leadership positions. We are excited for the chance to have more support from our sisters!
Our passion for one another and our own individual interests is the driver for our success and we could not have done it without the support of our sisters. We look forward to another incredible year being able to showcase our inspiring sisters.