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'''Yale was founded in 1701 near its present site in New Haven, Connecticut.'''
'''Zeta Xi was founded in
'''740 initiates (as of June 2017)'''
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==Charter Members==
The special women who chose to become the pioneers of Kappa Kappa Gamma on the Yale University Campus are: Susan Elizabeth Anslow, Theresa Michele Babich, Ada Teresa Chun, Diane Mary Clerkin, Elizabeth Prince Donnem, Andrea Jane Goetze, Lori Ellen Gottlieb, Kristy Lynn Hasen, Michele Patrice Hernandez, and Stephanie Pearl Kingston. Also, Ashia Ann Lee, Karen Josephine Lindsley, Eve Rose Maremont, Jennifer Anne Maxwell, Elaine Michele Pofeldt, Mary Upton Quest, Mary Susan Schulze, Anandi Subramanian, Terry Kathleen Vance, Margaret Frances Webb and Hui Hsing Wong.
==Establishment and Installation of Zeta Xi Chapter==
Historic buildings, rich Gothic spires and sparse modern towers on the campus of Yale University symbolize a commitment to training America's leaders that began long before the American Republic. Last January, the shining golden keys worn by twenty proud Kappa initiates became a part of that scene, symbolizing the University's continuing commitment to meeting the special needs of its women students.
Yale, founded in 1701 near its present site in New Haven, Connecticut, is one of the world's leading universities. The student body, coming from almost every nation, includes 5000 undergraduates enrolled in over 70 academic disciplines and 5000 graduate students, studying under an outstanding faculty that includes many Nobel laureates.
Women, however, have only been permitted to register as undergraduates at Yale since 1969. Today, approximately 45 percent of the students admitted are female. While fraternities were prominent on the all-male campus of the late 19th Century, they were often identified (not always accurately) with many non-democratic attitudes prevalent during that period. These groups flourished into the 20th Century, but after the school upheavals of the Sixties and Seventies, only one survived.
Today, students are recognizing the advantages gained from fraternity membership. In January 1986, when Marjorie Matson Converse, ΓΔ - Purdue, Kappa extension chairman, responded to a call from Sara Church Dinkler, EO - California-Davis, a recent Yale Law School graduate, reporting of students' interest in Kappa Kappa Gamma, Marj found five male Greek organizations and Kappa Alpha Theta already on campus.
Marj returned to Council after a visit to New Haven and reported that students and the University were indeed interested in Kappa. The New Haven and Fairfield County Alumnae groups, under presidents Kelly Hall Silva, ΔN- Massachusetts, and Marjorie Koza Gasco, BT-Syracuse, were most enthusiastic about a Yale chapter. The Fraternity approved the proposal and the first colonization rush for Zeta Xi-Yale, was held in April, 1986.
In June 1986, Andrea Goetze, then a Zeta Xi Colony pledge, attended Convention in Philadelphia. Sheri Purvis, ΔΠ- Tulsa was appointed Zeta Xi's Chapter Consultant and Constance Engle, ΔA- Penn State, was appointed Chairman of Chapter Development.
The colony's founding members were joined by others in September 1986 when Kappa Kappa Gamma and Kappa Alpha Theta conducted Yale's first formal sorority rush. After rush, Sheri took the new members through pledge training while the Fairfield County and New Haven Alumnae set up Zeta Xi Advisory and House Boards.
Chapter Installation began on Thursday, January 15 with the arrival of Fraternity President Marian Klingbeil Williams, Θ -Missouri, Wilma Winberg Johnson, ΔN -Massachusetts, director of philanthropy; Jean Dale Brubeck, ΓK - William and Mary, then assistant to the council, (currently Fraternity Executive Director); Mary Clarke, ΔZ-Colorado College, traveling consultant; Marj Converse, Charlotte Walton Sargeant, M-Butler, installation chairman, and a host of other dedicated Kappas. A dinner for pledges and these guests was followed by a stimulating Fraternity talk given by Marian Williams.
Fireside activities, conducted by Wilma Johnson, were held in the paneled library of the Colonial-period house on New Haven's historic Town Green which houses the Yale Graduate Club. A limited-edition print of Audubon's "Snowy Owls" hanging above the fireplace made the room seem perfect for Kappa's needs. Undergraduates from our Rho Province chapters attended the ceremony, many of them anticipating the role they'd play as big sisters to our new members.