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This summer was a great summer for all of our chapter members as they went off and worked internships and took classes all over the world. This summer was also great, because it was the Kappa Kappa Gamma General Convention. We sent three sisters to the convention this year to learn, meet new people, and vote on our important bylaws. This was a wonderful experience and opportunity for the three girls. Not only did they learn from the convention, but they brought back tools and tips to teach the other women in our chapter about leadership, inclusiveness, and sisterhood.
After a wonderful summer, we started off with a great chapter meeting and bonding event where we made fleur-de-lis waffles and played games in our cottage. This was a great way to everyone to come back together and talk about their adventures over the summer. In September, we had our annual Red White Blue and Blue social which was a great way to show our Kappa and American pride! The week after, we had our fall philanthropy, Kappa Kourtside, where we raised $2580. We donated this money to RIF and to an organization called the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention was very important to us this year, because we had multiple members affected by suicide and we wanted to do everything we could to support them.
At the beginning of October, we celebrated our very special Founders Day with a Founders Day quiz, a feast, and pumpkin decorating! This Founders Day was very fun and we got to show off our love and apperception for Kappa. Soon after, we decided to do continuous open bidding and gave bids to four amazing women who embody Kappa in so many different ways. We had a great new member period with them where we went out to dinner with them, watched movies, ate bagels in the cottage and more. We were so excited when we got to officially initiate them on Friday, November 16th.
After our Thanksgiving break, we decided to have one last bonding event. We had a holiday party where we had tons of food and we did a secret Santa. The last thing we did in December before saying goodbye to everyone for winter break was vote on our new CC and it was a huge success! We will officially vote on those members and do our transitions next semester. This was a great year for the Zeta Omicron chapter and we cannot wait to see what 2019 brings us!
Highlights of 2019
This year was an extremely exciting year for the Zeta Omicron chapter at the University of Richmond. On January 20, we started our formal spring recruitment and we were able to welcome 37 new women into our chapter! During this week, we not only enjoyed meeting our potential new members, but also welcoming back our members in the class of 2020 as they returned from their study abroad programs from the following semester. Our Bid Day theme this year was Nascar! Our current and new members all represented Kappa in fun t-shirts. After hanging out in our Kappa cottage, taking tons of pictures, and getting to know our new members, we all went to a Go-carting facility and enjoyed dinner together. Soon after recruitment week, we all celebrated our Junior Ring Dance with our Kappa families. This was an awesome time getting to know the Junior's family members and being there to support them through the next step in their lives.
After four weeks of our new members having temporary families and getting to know everyone in the chapter better, we finally had big/little reveal week. This week was filled with tons of snacks, smiles, crafts,and of course sisterhood! After the an exciting week of big/little reveal, we had our week of inspiration period. After rock toss, flower side, and fireside, and a pizza night, we had a wonderful initiation. We were so excited to officially call our our new members sisters. After our initiation, we had a delicious catered brunch got to experience their first social which was from Baker's Crust. At the end of March, our new sisters got to experience their first social which was Gatsby themed. This was a great way to end the semester before our final exams.
After a wonderful summer, we started off with a great chapter meeting and bonding event where we made fleur-de-lis waffles and played games in our cottage. In September, we had our Red White and Blue social which was a great way to show our Kappa and American pride. The week after we had our fall philanthropy, Kappa Kourtside, where we raised $3500. We donated this money to RIF and to an organization called the Pastoralist Child Foundation. This organization is extremely close to the heart of one of our sisters, Sofia. We were all extremely excited to support her through Kourtside.
At the beginning of October, we celebrated our very special Founders Day with a Founders Day quiz, ritual ceremony, and cake! We got to show off our love and appreciation for Kappa. Before Thanksgiving break, we decided to have a bonding event. We had a progressive Thanksgiving Dinner. Everyone brought different sides such as Mac n Cheese, Brussel Sprouts, and Pie. It was so fun to celebrate the holiday season with our sisters. We had a holiday party where we had tons of food and we did a secret santa. The last thing we did in November before saying goodbye to everyone for winter break was vote on our new CC and it was a huge success! This was a great year for Zeta Omicron chapter and we cannot wait to see what 2020 brings us.
Chapter Philanthropy: RIF and the Pastoralist Child Foundation. The Pastoralist Child Foundation is an organization that works to prevent child marriage through education and scholarships to young women. One of our sisters has worked closely with this organization for a long timer and support this organization was something special to her.
Founders Day: This year we celebrated Founders Day with a history presentation, ritual ceremony, and cake. It was really fun to celebrate the founders who in some way brought us all together.
Sesquicentennial Celebration: The chapter has begun to celebrate Kappa's 150th anniversary by beginning to talk about the donation we will be donating to honor the anniversary.
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