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|Founded= {{start date and years ago|1989|05|01}}
|College= [httphttps://www.wlu.edu/ Washington and Lee University]
|Location= Lexington, VA
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Founders Day: We did not celebrate Founders Day. I did forward the email I received from the National Sorority regarding Founders Day is case anyone wanted to watch the live stream on Facebook.
=='''Highlights of 2020s''':==
From chapter’s History Report: ScholarshipThis past year, the Kappas at Washington and Lee have done a lot of great work amidst the pandemic. In January, we rushed 23 women into our sorority. Bid day welcomed our new sisters to the sorority. Following bid day, we had initiation, which I was in charge of. With the help our past president,Emily Moran, we had a successful initiation and fireside ceremony. We welcomed in four alumni to help host the initiation. As chapter marshal, it was my duty this past year to teach chapter ritual and tradition. After initiation, I hosted a ritual review with the new pledge class, so they could better understand the history of the ceremonies they just experienced. We went over the handshake, the password, and the different ritual songs. I also shared ritual nuggets with the pledge class. Thankfully, we were able to have initiation before we were sent home early in March. Because initiation happened before we were sent home, group honors/awardsmy job wasn't effected as much as the other jobs in the sorority. During the pandemic, traditionsthings slowed down a bit, special eventsbut people were still involved in chapter and philanthropy. This past semester, changes our sorority focused a lot on campus or within chapterspending meaningful time together in a safe and covid-friendly way. Our event chairman hosted a wonderful outdoor dinner with catered food. In addition, overall nature we did a drive-in movie event at one of the local theaters in Lexington. Because of the pandemic, all of our chaptermeetings were held virtually each week. Chapter has been great way for all of us to get together virtually, once a week to discuss expectations and schedules. One learning experience we all had this year was the seminar on sexual assault held by a Kappa volunteer. This was a great way for the women to have open conversations about sexual assault on our campus. This year, our chapter goalshas also made diversity and inclusion a major goal of ours. We had open conversations about changes that would need to be made to rush, so our sorority would be more inclusive to people of all races. We have a new diversity committee led by a woman in our sorority, challenges and we plan on creating a new diversity position on chapter council next semester. Our sorority also has created a new resource this year for women struggling with mental health. During the pandemic, it is more important now to address mental health issues on campus. Alice Gooding hosts a weekly meeting for anyone to join if they want to discuss how they were overcomefeel, or if they are worried for friends. Our standards committee has also worked on making their committee more open to positivity. The Kappas at Washington and Leedon't want to view standards as a place to go when you are punished, but as a place that is welcoming and there to help. Overall, etcit has been a great year despite the challenges of making things virtual. ''Philanthropy:''' The chapter supports Reading is Fundamental (RIF). In addition the chapter helps combat drunk driving through Concert for Kelsey. We chose RIF because of its mission. This organization's mission is to encourage and motivate young children to read. Through this organization, Kappas can help make reading a fun and beneficial part of everyday life for children who don't have exposure to books at home or at school. Concert for Kelsey supports the Kelsey Durkin Memorial Fund. Kelsey was a member of the sorority who died tragically in a drunk driving accident. We host a concert every spring term in order to raise awareness.
"Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" - Our chapter made diversity, equity, and inclusion a major goal this year. Led by one of our junior Kappas, Nico Sacci, we have created an open environment to discuss diversity and inclusion. As we rushed girls this past semester, Nico encouraged the whole chapter to extend friendships to people of all races. We plan on adding a new position to our chapter council that will be the head diversity and inclusion (DEI Officer). This position should go into effect next semester. In addition, the whole chapter participated in a diversity and equity seminar hosted by Washington and Lee. This training seminar helped make people aware of the current problems and gave ways to increase our inclusion.
"Sesquicentennial Celebration" - In order to celebrate Kappa's 150th anniversary, our chapter decided to make posts on the social media. Many women in the chapter posted on Instagram, and our PR chairman made lots of posts on the Washington and Lee Kappa Instagram as well. Because we couldn''Housing:''' t do any in person celebration because of there pandemic, our chapter thought the best way to celebrate would be through social media. We spread the word about 150 years and emphasized the importance of history. In addition, we spent time in chapter going over the history of KKG at Washington and Lee and the history of Kappa as a national foundation.
==Highlights of 2021==
'''Philanthropy:'''
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In the past year our chapter has done some great things even with the restrictions of the pandemic placed upon us. Academically speaking our chapter has done a tremendous job bringing up our chapter wide GPA and rank. This fall semester we were ranked 5 of 6 of all the sororities in average GPA. This past winter semester, we placed 2 of 6 with an average GPA of 3.659. We currently have 6 open Merit-Based scholarships. Operationally speaking, we have held some awesome fundraiser events that our DEI heads planned and are currently working to plan our yearly tradition philanthropy fundraiser event for the promise committee at our school which works to prevent drinking and driving on campus. Aside from this, we hope to hold a fun run philanthropy event in the fall. We had a solid rush year and received 4-5 quota additions taking in 30 new members. Following a solid recruitment, we held our ritual and initiation for all new members to be inducted into the chapter. We have an exciting senior kickball event coming up that is being held through our panhellenic council. This event is a fundraiser to donate to a Gofundme for a member on our campus who recently became paralyzed due to a serious accident. One of our chapter wide goals this year is to increase our DEI efforts and work to get some new and fun philanthropy and sisterhood events in!
'''Chapter Convention Awards:'''
Chapter Philanthropy
Our chapter supports the Children’s Literacy Foundation through fundraising events we hold on campus. Additionally, we work with the Rockbridge County and elementary schools to raise money for supplies and school supplies for children. We are planning to do a few events in the fall with organizations in the area that support DEI efforts as well.
With the recent shift to focus on mental health and well-being advocacy, our chapter has been working to brainstorm some new ideas for events to fundraise for and support some of these organizations. We are hoping to hold events in the fall to support Active Minds, NEDA, Jed Foundation, and Mental Health America. Some current plans we have is to hold a fun run, a “food fuel” event during our finals week, a yoga event and more! [[File:Zeta Tau1.jpg|thumb|sisters in yoga]]
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'''Note to Chapter Registrar:'''Diversity, Equity, and InclusionPlease refer While it was difficult to your operate as a chapter archives including chapter meeting minutes during the pandemic, we have really been working to get back to our normal operations and have been specifically focusing on DEI efforts and back issues of ''The Key'' philanthropy events. We plan to fill hold many philanthropy events in any gaps the fall since our philanthropy chair is currently abroad. As far as DEI, our chapter makes strong efforts to increase engagement in the above historical highlightsdiversity engagement and inclusion. If your Our DEI heads lead meetings every week following chapter archives are not completeto talk about a specific weekly topic which helps raise awareness around such topic. We also have done a collaboration with an organization campus to promote racial equity and inclusion. We held a fundraiser to raise money for children’s school supplies that promote all skin colors (crayons, please research your university libraryband aids, campus newspaper and yearbook archives etc) as well as posters for newsworthy information about your chapterthe classrooms. Please double check your work for accuracyWe are looking to do some other collabs this spring as well as in the fall. Contact Additionally, we have held chapter Advisory or House Board wide DEI events in the past year where some outside members, local Alumnae Association members, or your Province Director of Chapters for assistancecame to speak to our chapter on various topics.
Your efforts will ensure Operating in a complete and accurate history PandemicOperating during the pandemic was a challenge for our chapter. For a long period of your time, we were having to do everything virtually (chapter , rush workshop, rush, initiation, sisterhood events). It was most difficult to hold rush virtually due to the technical difficulties we encountered. The inorganic feeling of getting to know someone through a screen made it a challenge for future generations both our members and the PNM’s. While we tried to enjoy!make it as natural as possible, we felt the experience would have been much better for the PNM’s if it were in person. Chapter and other operations were tough to hold virtually as sometimes it was hard to have effective and solid conversation. However, I think our chapter did a great job trying to make some virtual sisterhood events fun so that we could relax and still get to be together as a chapter.[[File:Zeta Tau2.jpg|thumb|sisterhood]]