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'''Chapter Convention Awards:'''

2012 was a landmark year for the Zeta Pi Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma. The Chapter received recognition at the 2012 convention, receiving the Recruitment Award, Chapter Management Honorable Mention and Panhellenic Honorable Mention for Zeta Pi's size category. 2012 marked Zeta Pi Chapter's 25th year on the College of Idaho campus. Zeta Pi celebrated this important landmark with an anniversary celebration for the campus community, which saw attendance from several other Greek organizations, as well as a few recent alumnae. In addition to celebrating Zeta Pi's 25th, members of the chapter were also busy with preparations to host the Spring 2013 Province Convention, for which they organized special fundraisers, like a hot wings eating contest, "Too Hot to Handle." The chapter continued the KKG tradition of philanthropy with the annual Kappa Casino and Salvation Army Giving Tree, which provided books for two third grade classrooms at a local elementary and 125 gifts for local children, respectively.

6/22/2012

Recruitment Award

Chapter Management Honorable Mention

Panhellenic Honorable Mention

In the spring of 2012, the College of Idaho reinstated the football program in an effort to increase the student population. The first season the college will play begins in the fall of 2014. The college also instated a three year residency policy in an effort to keep tuition costs at a minimum and to promote greater campus community involvement.

The Chapter worked to absorb the extraordinary growth from Fall of 2011, even while still growing through Spring recruitment and then a successful Fall 2012 recruitment, which added eight new members. The huge increase in chapter membership allowed overburden officers to be relieved with a new crop of officers starting in January 2012. Offices that were combined the previous year were able to be separated, and officers were better able to direct their actions into specific areas. The chapter continues to grow and become a more vibrant component of the C of I community as its members become more and more diversified and gain leadership positions within the school.

~~6/22/2012~~While the chapter was able to relieve the loads of overburden officers thanks to the increase in chapter members from the pledge class of fall 2011, this resulted in a Chapter ~~Management Honorable Mention~~Council makeup of almost entirely new officers, many of whom were still relatively new to Kappa. But under the strong leadership of the president, herself a junior, chapter officers were able to assimilate to their new positions of responsibility. Despite losing a few officers, including philanthropy and VPAE, over the course of the summer vacation, new officers were elected at the start of the fall semester, and were able to hit the ground running.

~~6/22/2012~~Zeta Pi Chapter has also faced the challenge of preparing to host the Iota Province meeting for spring of 2013. Given that Zeta Pi does not own a fraternity house, the usual preparations have required some alterations. The chapter formed a special Province committee to help plan the activities that will take place during the March Province meeting. These have included finding ways of incorporating some of Idaho's quirks into the convention through desserts--ice cream potatoes--and also in connecting Province with a local charity, Hope's Door, a shelter for battered women and children. Province attendees will have the opportunity to donate their hotel provided toiletries (shampoo, conditioner, etc.) in care packages to women and children who have sought shelter at Hope's Door, and may be without basic amenities. ~~Panhellenic Honorable Mention~~Province also posed a significant financial burden to the chapter, whose budgets have been increasingly tight. But when active members of Zeta Pi attended the annual Founder's Day Brunch with the Boise Valley Alumnae Association, alumnae were offered the opportunity to donate to Zeta Pi in an effort to help send as many active Zeta Pi members to Province as possible. The Boise Valley Alumnae were extremely generous, and greatly helped reduce the financial burden on Zeta Pi.

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