Changes
→Highlights of 2016
During our summer vacation our Kappa ladies went on awesome adventures, partook in internships, and volunteered in our communities. Our VPO (Deena Merrill) and Abi went to China at the beginning of summer for a school choir trip. Our Event and Risk Management Chairman (Paula) went to Scotland for a study abroad trip with our school. Kira attended Convention held in San Diego where Zeta Pi received an Honorable Mention for the Standards Award from the headquarters. Bridget Kernan had an internship at a legal office, where her supervisor was Attorney Ellen Smith, who is a University of Idaho Kappa alum.
With the start of a new school year brought about changes on our campus as well. One of our oldest dorms on campus, Voorhees Hall, is being renovated and should be completed by the end of January 2017. The campus is also experiencing the building of our new Cruzen-Murray Library which is set to be completed in January of 2018. All these changes on campus made us excited for the new changes in our chapter as well, through fall recruitment we were able to give bids to six lovely ladies, Katie Carns, Jade Green, Isabela Lete, Shanna Madsen-Stowman, Quin McLaughlin and Jess Meyer. The start of the new school year also brought up the start of a new club, Women’s Lacrosse. Anabel, Shanna, and Shelby Robinson played a key role in being the founding members of this new club sport. This school year is the first year of Rotary Club on our campus and Isabel, Coree and Shelby have participated in service projects around the campus as well as the Caldwell community.
During this school year, there are currently four sisters serving on our campus Student Senate (Anabel, Melanie, Morgan and Angel) as well as having three sisters as tutors in History (Melanie), French (Anabel) and Biology (Hailey). Shelby participated in this year’s Leadership Academy that took place in Ohio. The Zeta Pi chapter participated with the national anti-hazing campaign, and posted photos on our social media outlets. At the beginning of October our sister Bridget put on a program called behind the badge to show the campus and the community that there are more to our Campus Safety officers then just being there to unlock your door. Anabel and Melanie joined another new organization on campus called Phi Alpha Theta which is the scholastic honor society for history majors. We had two sisters participate in Sigma Chi’s Miss C of I, which was Disney themed this year, Deena received runner up, and our New Member Chairman Ashley Smith received Miss Congeniality as well as first place.