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Zeta Zeta prides itself on its numerous academic and social accomplishments on campus and in the community. Again, Zeta Zeta received the second highest grades in the entire Greek community in the Fall semester, participated in many Westminster activities, and excelled at intramurals. Westminster's Kappas continually take leadership positions across campus. All the sisters strive to live with the 5 virtues of Kappa (wisdom, sincerity, loyalty, inner beauty, and friendship) in their everyday lives here on campus and through everything they do. They strive to bring a welcoming and warming attitude to incoming and current students of Westminster College.
==Highlights of 2013==
Zeta Zeta began 2013 by holding chapter council elections and installing a new Chapter Council. During our Spring Recruitment we initiated four lovely and beautiful sisters into our chapter. We then had Father’s Weekend, where we had lunch and a silent action. Later we had our annual Sapphire Ball. We made monthly visits to the local Missouri School for the Deaf, where we had a Valentine’s party and several other days where we crafted and spent time with the children. Zeta Zeta participated in a number of philanthropy weeks, both at Westminster College and our neighboring school, William Woods University. These included: Fiji Islander and Sigma Chi’s Derby Day. In February, we hosted our local Reading is Key at the Fulton Public Library, in which our theme was Dr. Seuss. There we handed out books to the local children and had fun events to participate in during the morning. We were able to keep fit by participating in the college’s spring intramural sports, and winning the basketball intramurals.
Zeta Zeta prides itself in being very competitive both academically and with social accomplishments. Zeta Zeta earned first in several philanthropic events, as well as intramurals. We participated in many campus activities and won the Drosten Cup. Westminster Kappa’s are leaders on campus and excel at displaying the five virtues of Kappa: wisdom, sincerity, loyalty, friendship, and inner beauty. They strive to welcome and have a warm attitude to all those incoming students as well as with our fellow sisters.
==Highlights of 2014== Zeta Zeta began 2014 by holding Chapter Council elections and installing a new chapter council. During our Spring Recruitment we initiated one lovely and beautiful sister into our chapter. We then had Mom's Weekend, where we had lunch and a silent auction. Later on we had our annual Sapphire Ball. We made monthly visits to the local Missouri School for the Deaf, where we did arts and craft projects and played outdoors with the children. Zeta Zeta participated in a number of Philanthropy weeks throughout the year. In the spring we participated in Sigma Alpha Epsilon's, and Sigma Chi's Derby Days philanthropy week. In February we hosted our Reading is Key event at the Fulton Public Library, in which our theme was A Very Hungry Kappaillar. There we did arts and crafts, read books, and handed out free books to the children who attended. We also hosted A Very Hungry Kappapillar Pie Eating Contest in our school gym to raise money for Reading is Fundamental, and to get students on campus involved and more knowledgeable about the topic. This was a fun event to do with the student body and to help raise money. In April we partnered with Phi Delta Theta and put on an Easter Egg Hunt for the children of the Fulton community. Our Zeta Zeta girls stayed in shape by participating in various spring intramural sports including basketball, and volleyball. For the fifth year in a row the amazing ladies of Zeta Zeta received the Drosten Cup for our outstanding cumulative hours of community service. We pride ourselves on this award and strive to keep winning in it in the years to come. Fall semester began and we initiated 13 wonderful new sisters to our chapter. We volunteered in a variety of events on campus such as Homecoming Week, "Into the Streets", and Missouri School for the Deaf. We then hosted out seventh annual "Teeing Off for a Better World" Golf Tournament which turned out very successful. We continued to participate in fall intramural sports including futsal, and softball. We were able to grow closer as sisters in the fall with several social events including "If It Ain't Neon It Shouldn't Be On", our themed formal, and winter formal. A major event for our Chapter this year was a visit from President and Executive Officer of Reading is Fundamental Carol Rasco. She came and stayed at Westminster for a few days and during her stay she educated our Chapter on the importance of Reading is Fundamental, and was a guest speaker at a Lunch and Learn event on our campus. We were so grateful to have the opportunity for her to come to our campus. Overall, it was a tremendous year for the Zeta Zeta Kappas filled with many smiles and much success. We are looking forward to another wonderful year to come. Campus: Westminster College was founded in 1851 and continues to be a private, educational, residential, selective undergraduate college today. With a curriculum based on liberal arts, the college is based on reaching excellence through education and preparing graduates to become leaders of the future. Westminster is a very small college with a friendly and welcoming atmosphere that is small and personable. Westminster has great opportunities both academically and socially that will help students excel outside of college. Chapter: Zeta Zeta prides itself on being very competitive both academically and with social accomplishments. Zeta Zeta earned first in several philanthropic events, as well as intramurals. We participated in many campus activities and wont the Drosten Cup Award. Kappa's are leaders on campus and excel at displaying the five virtues of Kappa: wisdom. sincerity, loyalty, friendship, and inner beauty. They strive to welcome and have a warm attitude to all those incoming students as well as with our fellow sisters. Our Chapter holds its meetings in the Kappa Kappa Gamma lounge that resides in the basement of Weigle Hall which is a residence hall on campus. This lounge is owned by Westminster College. Zeta Zeta does not have a house on Westminster's Campus. We have a lounge where we meet for chapter and chapter council meetings, as well as sisterhood bonding events. This is also a place where members are free to come and hangout, do homework, or socialize any time. There is no designated place for Kappas to live but our sisters have a close bond and a lot of girls choose to live together even as a pledge in the on campus housing. This is the member's choice and it is nice to see that our members are close and choose to live together even though we do not have designated housing for Kappas. ==Highlights of 2015== Zeta Zeta started the year off strong this year with a great new Chapter Council. We began by attending our monthly trips to our local philanthropy at Missouri School for the Deaf. These trips are always so much fun seeing the smiles on the kid’s faces when we visit them. In February, we put on our annual Reading is Key event for Reading is Fundamental. This year our theme for this event was Kappily Ever After. We had so much fun making Disney themed crafts with the children of Fulton and reading to them. The kids had such a great time and were so excited they got to take home a free book. Throughout the semester we also supported the philanthropies of other Greek organizations on campus. We participated in Beta Theta Pi’s philanthropy week to support Chads Coalition and Phi Gamma Delta’s philanthropy week to support Special Olympics. For some more fun with our sisters we teamed up for volleyball and futsol intramurals. In April we had our annual Sapphire Ball which was a wonderful time spent dancing with our sisters. At the end of the semester we won the Drosten Cup for our outstanding cumulative hours of community service. We have won this award for the sixth year in a row; it is an incredible reward for all of our hard work! Each year we continue to strive to receive this award. We returned from summer break ready to take on recruitment. We had a successful recruitment and we welcomed eleven lovely new members to our chapter. These girls are the perfect addition to Zeta Zeta for they make our chapter complete. They joined right in to our softball and basketball intramurals. We continued our monthly trips to Missouri School for the Deaf. In September we held our eighth annual “Teeing Off for a Better World” golf tournament where we raised almost $5,000 for Reading is Fundamental and the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation. We had our first formal of the school year in October which was a themed formal. This year was a Decades theme and it was fun to see all the girls dressed up in all different decades. In the fall we participated in several philanthropy weeks for other organizations. We participated in Alpha Gamma Delta’s philanthropy week for American Diabetes Association, Beta Theta Pi’s for Chads Coalition, and Delta Tau Delta’s for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (Information JDRF). We joined in on Kappa Alpha Theta’s Queso for Casa event to help them raise money for their national philanthropy CASA. Westminster Greek life is known to be a very PanHellenic community and Zeta Zeta is always eager to support other Greek organizations in any way we can. After initiating our eleven new members this semester we held elections. Everything went smoothly and we elected a wonderful new Chapter council. These girls will carry our chapter to success throughout the next year. We closed the semester with our annual Winter Formal. It was a great way to celebrate a successful semester and bond with our sisters. We look forward to what the next year brings. Westminster College got a new President, Dr. Benjamin Ola Akande. Dr. Akande has been doing great things to improve Westminster’s campus. He also is supportive of Greek life and has been pushing to help us all grow. Our chapter is going through a process to get a floor in a residence hall for girls to live in since there are no sorority houses on campus. This is a work in progress but we hope that it will help our chapter grow in numbers, improve Greek life on campus, and some day lead to a house in the future. Our chapter has a positive outlook on the future and we are not only making changes to our chapter for ourselves, but also for future members to come. Chapter Philanthropy: What organization(s) has your chapter historically/traditionally raised money for, or donated hours to, in your community?Our chapter has traditionally raised money for Reading is Fundamental and Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation. We donate each year to the Rose McGill Holiday Sharing Program to help a person in need during the holidays. We do local and school wide service events yearly for instance Into the Streets where we clean up the streets of Fulton and Martin Luther King Service day. We also volunteer at the local soup kitchen. Why did your chapter choose this organization(s) to support?We chose these organizations because they match our virtues and we strive to always help our community in any way we can. ==Highlights of 2016== The Zeta Zeta Chapter returned to Westminster College for the spring semester on January 11, 2016. The year became busy right off the bat with a Greek Leadership Workshop where several of our members learned how to be influential leaders in the Greek community at Westminster College. At the end of January we held COB and gave a bid to our sweet Jenny Blake. We had a Hawaiian-themed Bid Day celebration a few days later where we ate kabobs and had a wonderful time. Inspiration Week quickly followed at the beginning of March, and Jenny was initiated on March 5th at Washington University. Additionally, we held our annual Reading is Key event which benefitted Reading is Fundamental. Throughout the semester we participated in many service events including: our monthly trips to Missouri School for the Deaf, the local food bank, the Panhellenic Dance-a-thon, and others. We also participated in Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s annual philanthropy week in which we took first place! A few weeks later, Zeta Zeta also partook in Phi Delta Theta’s annual philanthropy week. On March 12, we had our biannual Mom’s Weekend; we spent the day visiting with our moms and painting canvases. The end of March brought about our annual Easter Egg Hunt, which we co-hosted with the men of Phi Delta Theta. Numerous children from the surrounding community came to The Hill to hunt for eggs and we had a blast. In April we hosted our first annual philanthropy week, and it was hugely successful. It was jungle themed and the participants had an awesome time helping us raise money for Reading is Fundamental and The Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation. Over the summer, three of our sisters went to the National Convention in San Diego. They had an exciting, eventful time, and brought home good news. Zeta Zeta was awarded for being the most improved chapter history reportsof 74 members or less in academic excellence in the biennium; additionally, we were awarded for the greatest giving of any small Kappa chapter to the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation. The Kappa floor in Weigle Hall was also renovated to prepare for the upcoming school year. We ended the semester with our annual Sapphire Ball at a beautiful venue, and graduation on May 7th. Zeta Zeta began the fall semester with formal recruitment. On August 28th, scholarshipwe welcomed 20 beautiful, group honorsbright new faces at our donut-themed Bid Day celebration. Our new members were pledged in and began New Member Programming which they completed before an exciting Big/awardsLittle reveal and Inspiration Week in mid-October. On October 23rd, we welcomed them into our beautiful sisterhood and they now wear the golden key. We also held our two annual fall semester formals, Kappa Krush and Winter Formal, and participated in Delta Tau Delta’s philanthropy week and took home first place! Additionally, we hosted an extremely successful golf tournament, Teeing Off for a Better World, traditionswhere we raised over $8, 000 for Reading is Fundamental and the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation. We are extremely happy with 2016 and we cannot wait to grow stronger together in the years to come. Over the summer of 2016, the second floor of Weigle Hall, as well as the common lounge and our chapter lounge, were renovated extensively. Zeta Zeta now has our own private floor where several of our members live. This change has brought our chapter closer together and we are confident that we will only continue to grow stronger and closer due to this new change on campus. Historically, Zeta Zeta has supported many organizations including: The Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation, Reading is Fundamental, Missouri School for the Deaf, and the various philanthropies of our fellow Greek organizations in Fulton. We choose to support Missouri School for the Deaf because it is a hands on experience where we can see our chapter making a difference in our own local community. No matter the nature of one’s day, they cannot leave MSD without a smile on their face. The children adore the days we arrive to spend time with them and form special relationships.Additionally, we support the various organizations that other Greek organizations support in order to bring the Greek community together more so we can all make an even larger impact on the world. Zeta Zeta holds chapter meetings in the basement lounge of Weigle Hall at Westminster. Our lounge was renovated over the summer and we have many new, donated pieces of furniture and art from Zeta Zeta alumni. [[File:Zeta Zeta facility - Weigle Hall 3.png|thumb|Zeta Zeta facility - Weigle Hall]] [[File:Zeta Zeta facility - Weigle Hall 2.png|thumb|Zeta Zeta facility - Weigle Hall]] [[File:Zeta Zeta facility - Weigle Hall 1.png|thumb|Zeta Zeta facility - Weigle Hall]] ==Highlights of 2017== he Zeta Zeta Chapter returned to Westminster College for the spring semester on January 16, 2017. Throughout the semester we participated in many service eventsincluding: a Westminster blood drive, a Circle of Sisterhood philanthropy week, Cupcakes for Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), Sexual Assault Week, and more. We also participated in Kappa Alpha Order and Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s annual philanthropy weeks in which we took first place for both! A few weeks later, Zeta Zeta also partook in Phi Delta Theta’s annual philanthropy week. We hosted our Reading is Key event in February at the Fulton library where we read books and made crafts with children of the local community. On March 11, changes we held our biannual Dad’s Weekend; we spent the day visiting with our dads and playing yard games. The end of March brought about our Kappa Kappa Gamma philanthropy week which was Disney themed where we raised $1848 for Reading is Fundamental and the Special Learning Center. The chapter started off April with our annual Easter Egg Hunt, which we co-hosted with the men of Phi Delta Theta. Numerous children from the surrounding community came to The Westminster Hill to hunt for eggs and we had a blast. And we were proud to send a delegate to attend the Kappa Kappa Gamma Leadership Academy, where she brought back numerous ideas to share with our chapter. We ended the semester by participating in the Beta Theta Pi philanthropy week and we hosted our annual Sapphire Ball at a beautiful venue. We also joined a new local philanthropy called the Special Learning Center, an educational institution for children with developmental delays and disabilites. We have visited with the children several times since partnering with them and donated a total of $924 from our previous philanthropy events. Zeta Zeta began the fall semester with formal recruitment. On August 25th, we welcomed 11 beautiful, bright new faces at our Vegas-themed Bid Day celebration. Our new members were pledged in and began New Member Programming which they completed before an exciting Big/Little reveal and Inspiration Week on campus the first of October. On October 8th, we welcomed them into our beautiful sisterhood and they now wear the golden key. We also held our two annual fall semester formals, Kappa Krush and Winter Formal, and participated in various service events throughout the fall semester such as: Mac n Cheese with Alpha Gamma Deltas, a Special Learning Center Trunk or within Treat, a Westminster Blood Drive and a Special Learning Center Parent’s Café, where we cared for the children so that the parents could have some time to themselves. Additionally, we hosted an extremely successful golf tournament in September, where we raised $7,070 for Reading is Fundamental and the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation. Ending the semester, we just handed out a bid to a wonderful woman and she is going through her New Member Programming. We are excited to be initiating our new member in the beginning of the Spring Semester, due to special request. We are extremely pleased with 2017 and we cannot wait to grow stronger together in the years to come. Over the summer of 2016, the second floor of Weigle Hall, as well as the common lounge and our chapter lounge, were renovated extensively. We continued to update this floor with new decorations and personalized the name boxes for the new members to live on the floor for the fall of 2017. The first year we had this floor there were 11 members living there but for 2017, we have 18 members living in and this change has brought our chapter closer together as majority of our chapterare housemates. We are confident that we will only continue to grow stronger and closer due to this new change on campus. Historically, Zeta Zeta has supported many organizations including: The Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation, Reading is Fundamental, Missouri School for the Deaf, overall the Special Learning Center and the various philanthropies of our fellow Greek organizations in Fulton. We recently chose to support the Special Learning Center (SLC) because it is a hands on experience where we can see our chapter making a difference in a nearby local community. No matter the nature of one’s day, they cannot leave SLC without a smile on their face. The children adore the days we arrive to spend time with them and form special relationships. Additionally, we support the various organizations that other Greek organizations support in order to bring the Greek community together more so we can all make an even larger impact on the world. Zeta Zeta holds chaptermeetings in the basement lounge of Weigle Hall at Westminster. Our lounge was renovated over the summer and we have many new, donated pieces of furniture and art from Zeta Zeta alumni. ==Highlights of 2018== ==Highlights of 2019== The Zeta Zeta Chapter returned for the spring semester on January 14th. This year we decided to change our normal winter formal from December to January and started our semester with a Kappa New Years formal which our chapter goalsenjoyed. Later on, March 2nd we hosted our biannual Dad’s Weekend where we spent the day visiting with our dads, eating delicious food, challenges and playing yard games. At the beginning of April, we held our final formal event of the semester, Sapphire Ball at Canterbury Hill Winery near Jefferson City. On April 10th our chapter participated in an annual community service day known as Campus Beautification at Westminster College where our sisters helped to make our campus look better while helping the environment. Our Alum weekend was that next weekend and on April 13th we hosted our yearly Alum event where we performed ritual with our alum and then went to our lounge where we chatted and ate lunch together. Ending our semester, we hosted a Reading is Fundamental event at the public library where there was lunch and we got the chance to read and hand out books while making crafts with children in the community. Our chapter returned to Westminster College on August 16th in preparation for work week and recruitment. We had 15 girls move onto our floor to live on for this academic year which helps to bring our chapter closer together. During this week we held many fun sisterhood bonding events such as a photoshoot, themed dress up days, and prizes given out at the end of each work day. We started with floor tours on the 22nd and recruitment lasted until August 25th where we welcomed 7 beautiful new faces at our Ice themed Bid day celebration. Our members were pledged in the following day and began New Member Programing. On September 14th we held our annual Kappa Klassic golf tournament where we grossed $7,150 for Reading is Fundamental and the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation and later that month, we had the chance to participate in a Behind Happy Faces, a presentation where we all discussed and brainstormed various ways to help with mental health in our chapter. October was a busy month for the Zeta Zeta chapter as we kicked it off with Inspiration (initiation) week with a Friends themed Big/little reveal on October 1st and ended the week with the initation of our new members as well as a banquet in the afternoon of October 6th. We then celebrated Founder’s Day as a chapter by taking out older composites and scrapbooks and having dinner together while playing Kappa trivia games in our lounge. We also enjoyed our annual fall Kappa Krush formal that was Cowboy vs. Alien theme. To end the month, members of our chapter participated in a trunk or treat event help by our campus for local kids as well as held a dodgeball tournament for the local adoption center for dogs/animals in our area where we raised $200. To mark the end of the year, we held our annual leadership/transition day where as a chapter we bonded over leadership skill training in groups and discussed how they to better our chapter for our future CC and all members. We concluded our last chapter of the semester with a sisterhood bonding gift exchange. Throughout the year we had a couple of LCs’ visit our chapter, Becca and Kat who provided us with excellent advice that we have applied to our chapter to make it run more efficient and cohesively. We also had the opportunity to send a representative to the Kappa Leadership Academy where she brought back many ideas to share to better our chapter and grow our leadership skills. For founders day, we met in our chapter lounge to have dinner together. We brought out old composities from our zeta zeta chapter as well as scrapbooks and then played a trivia game regarding which famous and succesful women were overcomeKappa alum. We also participated in many philanthropy events on campus such as Alpha Gamma Delta’s Taco Tuesday to help battle child hunger, Cupcakes for Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), pancakes with FIGI (USO Nonprofit), and KA and AGD’s Poker for Pearls (Child hunger and Muscular Dystrophy Association). Our chapter was involved in other campus events such as intramural sports like volleyball, futsal, and softball. We also participated in philanthropy weeks for Kappa Alpha Order, etcSigma Alpha Epsilon, Delta Tau Delta, Phi Delta Theta and Beta Theta Pi where we took first place in all! Besides campus philanthropy’s, we also went to our local philanthropy, the Special Learning Center numerous times. SLC is an educational institution for children with developmental delays and disabilities. It is a hands-on experience where we can see a direct difference we make in our community. We get to spend time with the kids during parent cafes where the parents can have some time to themselves.We also participated in a Trunk or Treat event near Halloween where we decorated a car and passed out candy to kids at SLC. In preparation for the sesquicentennial (150th)celebration of Kappa, our chapter welcomed the Minnie Stewart Van on November 17th where our sisters got to experience a virtual reality representation of the start of Kappa and got the unique chance to see artifacts from the first couple charter chapters. This was a great experience that was so special to us as we were reminded of the significance of our ritual and chapter history. We got to reflect on why we were here and our purpose within Kappa. We invited alumnae to lunch with the chapter the day of the visit. Our Zeta Zeta chapter met new milestones this year with one of our members being awarded a Kappa scholarship. Our chapter also had the highest grades for any Greek organization on campus for the Spring semester of 2019. We recently implemented Sunshine Chair into our weekly chapter meetings where one person is appointed to tell the chapter something positive that happened to them over the course of the previous week. The chosen sister then chooses another girl to be it next week. This has brought our chapter closer together as we get to hear about each other’s weeks as well as keeps us in a positive mood during chapter. On campus we know have to implement a financial transparnecy part of recruitment as well as no longer have a full philanthropy week. Our chapter has been very postive and hard working as we hold many philanthropy events and particpate in other events as well. We also partiicpate in many intramurals and hold the highest grades in any greek organization on campus. Our local philanthropy is the Special Learning Center in Jefferson City. The focus of this school is to help younger kids grow with their disabilties or developmental delays and to be able to expand their abilities that every child has. Being able to donate our time to a wide array of kids dealing with different disabilities and coming from all differnent backgrounds allows the parents to then have time to get groceries or other tasks that may seem simple to others but are a big deal to them. or founders day we met in our chapter lounge to have dinner together. We brought out old composities from our zeta zeta chapter as well as scrapbooks and then played a trivia game regarding which famous and succesful women were Kappa alum. ==Highlights of 2020== ==Highlights of 2021==
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