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|Founded= {{start date and years ago|2010|03|27}}
|College= [httphttps://www.northeastern.edu/ Northeastern University]
|Location= Boston, MA
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'''249 367 initiates (as of June 20152018)'''
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==Highlights of 2011-2019Chapter Awards== '''Fraternity Awards:''' Risk Management Award, 2014 Academic Excellence Award, 2016 Public Relations Award, 2018 '''Northeastern Panhellenic Awards:''' Chapter of the Year, 2013 Outstanding Sisterhood, 2013 Outstanding Scholarship, 2013 Chapter Excellence, 2013 Outstanding Scholarship, 2014 Outstanding Leadership, 2014 Achievement in Scholarship, 2014 Achievement in Leadership, 2014 Outstanding Philanthropy, 2015 Outstanding Academics, 2015 Chapter of the Year, 2016 Achievement in Philanthropy, 2016 Achievement in Scholarship, 2016 Chapter of the Year, 2017
==Highlights of 2012==
Our chapter chose to support the AstraZeneca Hope Lodge in 2013 because many of the women in the organization felt personal connections to the Lodge. We are all affected by cancer in one way or another and thought this would be the best place to devote our time. We are also able to do hands on work at the Lodge and we interact with the guests, instead of solely donating money and that was important to our chapter.
==Highlight of 2016==
Eta Omicron chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma had an exemplary 2016 school year. In January, we crafted five main goals that we hoped to accomplish within the year: to raise chapter GPA by 0.02 (to 3.4) by December 2016; to decrease unexcused absences by 50%, to have attendance of at least 12 women at Fraternity Sorority Life events and Panhel meetings, and further to have an appropriate number of teams at Panhel philanthropic events per the Panhel Chairwoman’s discretion; to increase understanding and appreciation of ritual; and to form a strong relationship with our new philanthropy.
In the spring we volunteered at our new local philanthropy, Christopher’s Haven, for the first time on January 28th. We go to Christopher’s Haven bi-monthly and help out wherever we’re needed. Christopher’s Haven is a home away from home where children can stay with their families while undergoing cancer treatments at Massachusetts General Hospital. Most of the time we hang out with the kids and families playing games, watching shows, and making crafts, but other times we help parents with chores they don’t have time to complete. We have volunteered with Christopher’s Haven eleven times thus far and we cannot wait to strengthen our relationship even further.
Northeastern welcomed Chi Omega as its ninth sorority on campus in the spring of 2016. For the first time in our chapter’s history we held an informal spring recruitment. It was extremely successful and we welcomed nineteen lively Thetas to our chapter on February 4th. During their new member period, they attended events with older pledge classes to get to know our chapter. They attended the annual new member retreat, which was held at Emily Horn’s house in Franklin, Massachusetts. The new members also attended other annual events such as Owl Prowl and our Pillow/Key Exchange with their new big/little pairings. We were proud to initiate all nineteen women on April 9th.
In Northeastern’s annual Greek Week this spring, we were paired with the gentlemen of Kappa Sigma fraternity. We participated in Greek Olympics and our annual dance competition, Greek Sing, finishing first in both of these events. Also, our sister, Dina Hagigeorges, won Greek Goddess. The entire chapter’s participation and involvement in Greek Week played an active role in our overall first place finish. At the end of Greek Week, we won the Silver Achievement Award as well as Achievements in Scholarship and Philanthropy. Over the summer, two of our sisters attended Kappa Kappa Gamma’s national convention where we won the Academic Excellence Award and received honorable mentions in greatest improvement and panhel.
We ended the spring semester with senior week - an exciting time to celebrate the hard work and dedication our sisters have put in during their college careers. Our chapter participated in events such as Senior Legacy Night and Senior Wills and Goodbyes. Our annual Tea Party was held at the end of the week, where we honored Adriana Levy with the Loyalty Award. The week concluded with us graduating 25 of our wonderful sisters. We also attended Formal on April 22nd on the Spirit of Boston. Our final spring GPA was 3.471, ranking first out of all sororities on campus.
Upon returning to campus in the fall, our sisters attended our annual sisterhood retreat. We held this event in campus classrooms, where we spent time bonding through games, activities, and recruitment workshops. Formal recruitment was held during the following two weekends. Eta Omicron successfully welcomed a new Iota class of 30 spirited women on September 26th. The new member period was filled with activities to integrate the newest pledge class into our chapter. We held our traditional events, such as our new member retreat, but also adopted new items to our new member curriculum, such as Every Member Education. I-week was successful in increasing sisters’ understanding and appreciation of our ritual. All thirty women were in good standing both financially and academically, which led to them being initiated at the end of their new member period on November 19th.
This year Babson’s Zeta Alpha chapter hosted Founders Day on October 15th. Active members of Eta Omicron and Eta Theta of Harvard were in attendance, as well as alumnae from various chapters. We celebrated our founding with brunch, presentations, awards, and engaging conversations.
Eta Omicron held numerous sisterhood events this year to strengthen the bonds in our chapter. Some events included crocheting, pumpkin carving, and a TITLE Boxing event. We had amazing chapter meetings, as well, including a speaker presentation about the It’s On Us campaign. We also participated in Northeastern’s Homecoming Week Events, which included our annual dance competition, Take it to the Floor, where we placed second with the brothers of Beta Theta Pi. Our sister, Savannah Knisely, ran for Mayor of Huntington Avenue.
The fall semester concluded with our Semi Formal and Senior Week. Semi Formal was held at Guilt Night Club in Downtown Boston on December 10th. Senior week celebrated our one December graduate. Unfortunately, the fall semester GPA was not available at the time of this report.
Our philanthropic endeavors were very strong in the 2016 school year. In the spring, we hosted our annual Lip Sync for Life Event with the brothers of Kappa Sigma and the sisters of Alpha Epsilon Phi where we raised $600 for Christopher’s Haven. Additionally, we attended Northeastern’s annual Relay for Life event on March 18th. As a whole, Northeastern raised over $260,000 and as women of Kappa Kappa Gamma, we contributed over $21,000 to this total. We were proud to be the top fundraising organization at Northeastern and we also surpassed our fundraising goal of $20,000. Furthermore, we made two trips to the Greater Boston Food Bank this year. During each trip, we made 6,000 meals possible and sorted through 9,000 pounds of food. We also held a Cards for Troops event with Delta Phi Epsilon. To support our national philanthropy, we held a RIF event on April 12th at the Samuel Adams Elementary School. We read The Giving Tree to three first grade classrooms and donated books to over 60 students. We held another RIF event at the same school in our fall semester, where we read Corduroy and did activities centered on the theme of the book. We gave each student a book and we donated the remainder of the books to the school. Also to benefit RIF, we had an ice cream truck come to campus and half of the profits went to RIF. Lastly, we held our annual Kappa Kickoff philanthropy event on October 23rd and raised $855 for Christopher’s Haven.
Our chapter meetings are held in rooms owned by Northeastern. Chapter meetings were held in 97 Cargill Hall and 200 Richards Hall in the spring and fall semesters, respectively. Our chapter does not have a house, lodge, apartment or suite and we have never had one in our history.
Achieving our goals was an essential part of our 2016 school year. We successfully raised our chapter’s overall GPA by booking study rooms and enforcing academic excellence goals. We decreased absences by enforcing rules with recording secretary and VPS check-ins, utilizing surveys to plan events, and taking attendance at all planned events. We increased our Panhel attendance by utilizing committees for panhel meetings. Also, our sisters gained a better understanding and appreciation of ritual through our two Inspiration weeks. Lastly, we have positively promoted our new philanthropy and logged attendance hours to ensure we are forming a strong relationship with Christopher’s Haven. Overall, the 2016 school year has been a year full of sisterhood and high achievements for the amazing women of Eta Omicron.
==Highlights of 2017==
The Eta Omicron chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma had a wonderful year in 2017. In early January, the Eta Omicron Chapter Council developed five goals for the chapter to move towards achieving throughout the year. These goals were to form a stronger relationship with the other Northeastern fraternities and sororities on campus and the greater Northeastern communities, to increase understanding and appreciation of rituals, bylaws, standing rules and history, to emphasize sisterhood in all aspects of chapter life and programming, to make better use of committees, and to increase study hours by 50%.
During the spring semester our chapter had many events to help strengthen sisterhood within our sorority as well as our relationships with other sororities on campus. We held events such as exercise classes and holiday celebrations within our sorority as well as with other organizations and chapters.
In March, Northeastern had its annual Greek Week, for which we were paired with the gentlemen of the Pi Delta Psi and Beta Gamma Epsilon fraternities. We participated in Greek Sing and Greek Goddess as part of the Greek Week festivities. During the Fraternity and Sorority Life Awards Ceremony, our chapter was incredibly honored to be named Northeastern’s Panhellenic Chapter of the Year for 2016.
In April, we celebrated our soon-to-be graduates and all their accomplishments and the hard work they had put in throughout their years at Northeastern with Senior Week. We held events including Senior Wills and Legacy Night, and arranged other fun events for the seniors to celebrate together as a graduating class. We had our annual Tea Party on Sunday April 2, where we honored our sister Emily Horn with the Loyalty Award. We graduated 30 incredible sisters at the end of this week. Our Formal was our last event of the semester and was held on April 22 at the Taj Hotel rooftop in Boston. Our sisters had a great time celebrating all of their hard work and achievements with one another after another great semester before parting for the summer.
On the first Saturday of the fall semester, September 9th, our sisters attended our annual sisterhood retreat, located for the first time at YMCA Camp Beckett in Beckett, Massachusetts. Sisters spent time bonding and enjoying each other’s company by playing games such as Red Rover and mastering the high ropes course the camp had to offer. Our sisters spent the night in cabins strengthening our sisterhood before returning to campus Sunday afternoon.
Formal recruitment began the following Saturday and spanned two weekends. On September 25th our chapter welcomed 41 excited new members into our Kappa class. 2 members of our Kappa class were transfer students from Dickinson College and Marist College who were initiated into our sorority at their past colleges and were being welcomed into Eta Omicron with the new members.
We hosted a Founders Day celebration at the Northeastern Alumni Center on October 22nd for our sisters. Also in attendance were members of the BIAA and members from the Harvard University and Babson College chapters. We had a lovely ceremony and brunch to celebrate our fraternity.
On October 29th our Nominating Committee met to slate sisters for our new Chapter Council. At formal chapter on Tuesday November 7th we selected our officers for 2017.
We hosted our annual Owl Prowl on Wednesday November 1 to provide another opportunity for active sisters and new members to relax and get to know each other a little better. Our families were very excited to grow at our Big/Little reveal that Friday, November 3rd. With initiation approaching, our Inspiration Week began Sunday November 12th. On Thursday, we held our canvas/fleur de lis exchange for bigs and littles. We held our Fireside ceremony that Friday November 16th after a week filled with sisterhood events and bonding opportunities. After Fireside, the soon-to-be initiates and their bigs spent time bonding in a sisterhood cozy.
This year our chapter held 2 initiation ceremonies so that we could accommodate all of our new members and their busy schedules. On Saturday November 18th we were ecstatic to initiate 38 new members into our chapter and pass 18 senior sisters through their final Red Room ceremony. During this ceremony, one new member was also initiated to the Delta Nu chapter of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. On Sunday November 19th, one senior sister went through her final Red Room ceremony and 2 more new members were initiated into our chapter. We could not be more excited to have welcomed 40 wonderful new sisters to our chapter!
Our chapter meetings are held in rooms owned by Northeastern. Chapter meetings were held in 201 Mugar Hall and 101 Churchill Hall in the spring and fall semesters, respectively. Our chapter does not have a house, lodge, apartment or suite, and we have never had one in our history.
Our last event of the semester was our Semi Formal, which was held at Guilt Nightclub in Boston on December 1st. Our sisters danced the night away and celebrated all their triumphs and achievements from the semester.
Philanthropy played a major role in our chapter throughout the year. We partnered with Alpha Epsilon Phi to host our annual Lip Sync for Life event on March 20th. On March 22nd, our sisters volunteered at the Greater Boston Food Bank, where we helped sort food and make many meals possible for those in need. On March 24th our chapter participated in Northeastern’s Relay for Life event, raising a total of $21,879 for the American Cancer Society and were proudly named the top fundraising team for the event. We held our Reading is Fundamental event of the spring semester on April 1st at the Orchard Gardens K-8 Pilot School in Roxbury Crossing, MA. For this event 13 of our sisters visited the school to read Fish Out of Water to the first grade students and brought them all books to take home with them.
On Sunday October 15th we held our fall philanthropy event, our annual Kappa Kickoff flag football tournament. The event started at 2 PM and we had a total of 42 teams. We were very excited to have raised just over $1,100 for our local philanthropy Christopher’s Haven. On Friday December 1st, we held our Reading is Key event of the fall semester. For this event, 15 of our sisters visited the first grader classes at the Orchard Gardens K-8 Pilot School in Roxbury, MA. We used the money we had raised throughout the semester to purchase books to give to each student, and handed them out at this time. We read The Giving Tree to the students and engaged in a fun, educational activity with them. Their enthusiasm and gratitude was palpable, and our sisters truly loved having the opportunity to bring more literature into these children’s lives.
Achieving our goals was a vital part of our 2017 school year. We successfully formed stronger relationships with the other Northeastern fraternities and sororities on campus and the greater Northeastern communities by creating a sign up sheet for every Fraternity/Sorority Life event to ensure that members of our chapter were present at every event, collaborating with and supporting other organizations on campus, and doing our best to hold an event each month with our Panhel pair. We increased our sisters’ understanding and appreciation of rituals, bylaws, standing rules, and history by presenting a bylaw/standing rule of the week at chapter and in the TWIK each week, practicing a ritual song at every chapter, and emphasizing both Kappa and chapter history throughout the New Member period. Our chapter emphasized sisterhood in all aspects of chapter life and programming by promoting standards as a resource to strengthen relationships and mediate conflicts, encouraging rearranged seating at informal chapter meetings, and offering one internal sisterhood event per month. In order to make better use of committees, our chapter chose to give members of the committees titles or roles when appropriate, host one committee bonding event per semester, and create a group agreement per committee including method of communication and goals. Our final goal was to increase study hours by 50%, which we worked to achieve by encouraging sisters to log their study hours on the Gin System, rewarding the sister/group of sisters with the most study hours at the end of each determined period of time, and creating study groups and teams by major. For the spring semester we had the highest GPA on campus for the 4th semester in a row. In conclusion, 2017 has been a year of many accomplishments and sisterhood for the incredible sisters of Eta Omicron.
==Highlights of 2018==
Eta Omicron had an incredibly successful 2018! Early in January, we devised three main goals to continue to strengthen our chapter even further: to improve accountability by increasing attendance, better recruitment by refining organizational abilities and refining recruiting skills, and to ensure that there is respect and proper education for ritual.
In the spring, we were able to accomplish a remarkable amount, strengthening our sisterhood, philanthropic relationships, as well as our relationships with the other sororities and fraternities on campus. Philanthropically, we continued our bi-monthly visits to Christopher’s Haven, our local philanthropy, as well as hosted and co-hosted several events throughout the semester. In January, we partnered up with the brothers of Kappa Sigma to craft cards for those with chronic illnesses. In February, we visited Community Servings with the gentlemen of Alpha Kappa Sigma and prepared meals for those in need. We also hosted our annual Lip Sync event with the women of Alpha Epsilon Phi, raising $1,123, half of which went towards Christopher’s Haven.
March again proved to be one of our busiest months. We started off with a spectacular sisterhood event at Rollerworld, where we skated the night away in ‘90s fashion. As the beginning of Greek Week, a Monopoly-themed Relay for Life quickly came upon us. Through donations and our Kappa Kaffeine booth, we were able to raise $16,282 for the American Cancer Society. Sister Cole Rifkin won Mayor of Monopoly, making our whole chapter proud as we walked into the early hours of the morning. With our Greek Week pairs, the brothers of Alpha Kappa Sigma and Lambda Phi Epsilon, we competed and placed second in the annual dance competition, Greek Sing, and our sister Laura Shannon ran for Greek Goddess. During the Fraternity and Sorority Life Awards Ceremony, we were proudly honored to be named Northeastern’s Panhellenic Chapter of the Year for the second year in a row. Due to the incredible efforts of the Chapter Council of 2017, we were also awarded the Academic Excellence Award, earned the Highest GPA in Panhellenic, and our president, Sydney Smith, won Panhellenic Council Outstanding President.
We began to close the spring semester with our Formal that was held on April 7th at the W. Prior to formal, sisters gathered at a local restaurant for brunch in preparation for the night of dancing ahead. During Senior Week, we celebrated all of the hard work and achievements of our seniors with Senior Wills and Legacy Night. We held our Annual Tea Party at the end of the week, where we honored Jessica Adrian with the Loyalty Award. We officially transitioned 27 women into alumna status and completed the spring semester with a chapter GPA of 3.596.
Over the summer, three of our sisters attended Kappa Kappa Gamma’s national convention where we were awarded with the Public Relations Award. We received four honorable mentions for New Member Programming, Excellence in Chapter Management, Gracious Living, and Academic Excellence. For the second year in a row, we conducted a Summer Health Challenge in which pledge classes competed to promote healthy living. This challenge served phenomenally to improve public relations as well as encourage keeping in touch over summer break.
For the first weekend of the fall semester, our sisters attended our annual sisterhood retreat at YMCA Camp Beckett in western Massachusetts on September 8th and 9th. We focused on strengthening our sisterhood and put a large emphasis on ritual and the values we were searching for with recruitment approaching so soon. Through high ropes courses and relay races, we were able to strengthen our bonds and return back to Boston on Sunday, exhausted but eager to start recruiting. Formal recruitment was held during the following two weekends in Northeastern’s student center. On September 24th, Eta Omicron excitedly welcomed the wonderful Lambda class of 52 new members. We were thrilled to integrate a Kappa transfer from Syracuse University into our new member class. The new member period was filled with activities including the new member retreat, where women participated in their first Kappa Kozy and were able to get to know each other off campus.
On October 14th, we hosted a Founders Day celebration in Northeastern’s Alumni Center. We were joined by alumnae, members of the BIAA, as well as Gail Simpson Owen, the Fraternity President, and Alpha District Director Andrea Stanfield who we were ecstatic to welcome to Eta O. We had a beautiful ceremony accompanied by a fantastic brunch and celebrated our fraternity with pride. To prepare for another successful year, the nominating committee met on Saturday, November 3rd to slate our sisters for the new Chapter Council. At formal chapter on Tuesday, November 13th, we elected our Chapter Council officers for the 2019 academic year.
The fall was also filled with several events that deepened our bonds as sisters. We went apple picking at Brooksby Farm in Peabody, MA, attended an Xtend Barre class, carved pumpkins, relaxed together during a spa night, and even returned to Rollerworld and had even more fun the second time. We participated in Homecoming Week with our partners, the brothers of Phi Delta Theta, and competed in Take It to the Floor, the annual dance competition. Bigs were finally revealed to eager littles on November 4th, right before we hosted our annual Owl Prowl on November 7th. Here new members and active sisters were able to mingle and get to know each other better. This action-packed week was followed by Inspiration Week, where bigs and littles exchanged pillows and fleur de lis on Thursday night and we prepared for initiation with the Fireside ceremony on Friday night. After the ceremony, bigs and littles held a cozy in order to emotionally prepare for the upcoming ceremony in the morning. The following morning, Saturday, November 17th, we initiated the fifty-one new members.
In addition to all of our sisterhood events, philanthropy was one of our main focuses throughout the fall. We hosted our annual Kappa Kickoff event, a flag football tournament that we open up to the entire university. This year we were able to raise $1,356.13 for Christopher’s Haven. Through t-shirt sales, we were able to raise $310 for Reading Is Fundamental. We organized a fundraiser for the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation at Love Art Sushi, raising $37.87. With the brothers of Alpha Epsilon Pi, we crafted card for the Boston Homeless Veterans Shelter and with the brothers of Delta Tau Delta, we created cards for Remy, a patient undergoing treatment at Boston Children’s Hospital. To support our national philanthropy, we visited Orchard Gardens Public School for our Reading Is Fundamental event on November 30th . Ten of our sisters read Make Way for Ducklings and bonded with the students. We are very proud of our philanthropic endeavors this year and we are excited to continue to watch our relationships flourish.
The fall semester came to a close with our Semi-Formal and Senior Wills. Semi------------------------------'''Note to Chapter Registrar:'''Please refer to your chapter archives including chapter meeting minutes Formal was held on November 30th at Kingston Grille & Bar and back issues our sisters celebrated our accomplishments of The Key to fill in any gaps in the above historical highlights. If your chapter archives are not complete, please research your university library, campus newspaper semester and yearbook archives for newsworthy information about your chapterdanced the night away. Please double check your work Senior Wills was held for accuracythe twelve seniors who graduated in December. Contact The chapter Advisory or House Board members, local Alumnae Association members, or your Province Director of Chapters for assistancereminisced and was able to give the graduating seniors the sisterly goodbye they deserved. Your efforts will ensure These seniors were transitioned into alumnae status during a complete and accurate history of your formal chapter for future generations to enjoy!meeting on Tuesday, December 4th.