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|Founded= {{start date and years ago|1875|11|13}}
|College= [httphttps://www.depauw.edu/ DePauw University, formerly Indiana Asbury University]
|Location= Greencastle, IN
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==Highlights of 2020==
Spring initiation was held virtually last school year. DePauw was sent home before Spring break, so the Iota chapter had to initiate our 22 new members virtually. This initiation included our entire new member class, as well as our marshal, new member chair, and president. This initiation was planned by ritual advisors. Fall recruitment was held virtually over zoom this year. Our chapter received one new member from fall recruitment. She was initiated virtually with our new member chair, president, and marshal. Two other Kappa Kappa Gamma chapters participated in the initiation, as well as our ritual specialist. Our bid night celebration, big little reveal, and blue and blue dinner were combined into one evening. We celebrated on our porch following COVID-19 guidelines. We dressed up and decorated the porch to welcome our newly initiated member! Our chapter has also continued to contribute to our philanthropy during this pandemic. We collected children’s books and wrote short letters in them. We distributed these books to a local elementary school in Greencastle, Indiana.
We have continued to have chapters every Monday, but all of our chapter meetings have been virtual. This includes formal chapters. We have been asking members to wear formal clothes and have cameras on during formal chapters, as we have continued to include ritual in these meetings. We have also continued to have CC meetings every Sunday evening, but these are also virtual.
Chapter Philanthropy. What organization does the chapter support?
This chapter supports reading is fundamental.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
We have a multicultural chair and an education chair at Iota. These positions have incorporated many diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives into our programming chapters this year. We have had a programming chapter on being an ally. This programming chapter focused on how to be an ally and was led by our multicultural chair and education chair. We have also had a programming chapter on understanding microaggressions. This programming chapter focused on understanding white privilege, tokenism, and microaggressions. This discussion was led by our multicultural chair, along with several sophomores. It was excellent to see the youngest members of our house leading a programming chapter on DEI.
3rd photo: A picture that was shared with the chapter in celebration of kappas 150th anniversary.
4th photo: Socially distant and mask wearing pumpkin painting sisterhood event.
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==Highlights of 2021==
We started off this year with virtual recruitment, leading to the eventual initiation of fifteen new
members. Following the process of recruitment, we were able to organize a fun virtual bid night
for all of the new members involving trivia and bonding games where new members and active
members were able to get to know each other better. We were able to hold a virtual initiation as
well and a virtual pinning ceremony. As the year progressed, we were also able to have a
couple of philanthropy events, which included donating dog toys to the local animal shelter,
signing and then donating books to the local elementary school, and completing individual acts
of service in the winter as well as having a fundraising event in the fall where we had games,
food, and a dunk tank. We also awarded the Sally Summer Flynn award to a member of the
2021 senior class that the chapter voted on as a whole. As for goals that the chapter had, one
main goal was to resume in-person chapter and committee meetings as well as have the
opportunity to have an in-person recruitment and initiation process. We have been able to start
having in-person chapter and committee meetings and we plan to have an in-person recruitment
and initiation process in the spring.
Chapter Philanthropy
Our philanthropy supports the organization of Mental Health Alliance. We support this
organization because we felt it was very applicable and relevant in the everyday life of our
members and was most strongly favored when voting on which philanthropy our chapter wanted
to support.
At the beginning of the fall semester we held a fundraising event to raise money for our
organization in which we had food, games, and allowed students on campus to dunk our
members in a dunk tank for donations.
We included diversity, equity, and inclusion in our chapter programming by having special
guests come to talk during programming chapters on topics of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
We also held virtual meetings where we watched educational films surrounding diversity, equity,
and inclusion and afterward held a discussion to debrief the film.
During the pandemic, we held virtual recruitment and initiation over zoom. We did recruitment
like usual with bump groups and one-on-one conversation with PNMs using break out rooms.
We also had virtual chapter and committee meetings until this fall semester when we resumed
in-person meetings. We also had virtual activity nights and general chapter meetings to help
reconnect with members not on campus or members not living in the house as social gatherings
in the house were not permitted at the time.