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→Highlights of Fall 2014
On the 27th of October, we joined the Fraternity and Sorority Council for the Sisterhood Soiree for any women who were interested in becoming part of Greek. Our very own Nomination Committee presented the slates of new officers for the year of 2015 to the chapter on November 2nd. We as a whole participated in the Greek Week that was organized by FSC to promote Greek unity with Omega Delta Phi in the week of November 3rd. We also held our very first Kappa Kookoff Chili contest for the first time in the light of the accident and hoping to help out our sisters in need. The following date, November 16th, we voted and finalized the positions of officers as a chapter during our formal chapter meeting. On the 21st of November, we also had our amazing and exciting Thanksgiving Mixer with Sigma Alpha Epsilon. On December 1st, we finished the officer installation during our last formal chapter of the semester. Before the stressful finals week, on the 5th of November, we held our very first distress sisterhood event and the event definitely brought all of us closer and strengthened the bond of sisterhood. We ended our amazing semester at UC Merced with the budget presentation during chapter on the date of December 7th.
==Highlights of Fall 2015==
Before we started a new school year for our chapter, Eta Xi, on the 17th of January, had a leadership day for all the newly elected officers. We had recruitment throughout the days of the 23rd and 25th, and we were more than excited to welcome our new sisters to our chapter. On January 30th, we had our new member retreat for all the new members for our chapter. Needless to say, all of us were grateful for this opportunity to get to know the new members better.
On the day of February 5th, some of our sisters volunteered to go to support our UC Merced basketball game, pink out. The game brought us closer to each other and followed by the 7th, we celebrated all the Kappa Kappa Geniuses by inviting them to our Academic Excellence banquet. We had the pleasure to connect and mingle with the gentlemen of Sigma Chi on the 13th of February. We had our big and little reveal on the 22nd of February and soon after that, on the 8th of March, we had Sigma within the Delta marking the start of our initiation week. On the 10th of March, blue and blue had sent many wishes from the bigs to the littles prior to the initiation. On the 13th of March, we concluded our inspiration week with fireside and new member sleepover and we couldn’t be more excited to initiate all on the 14th of March, followed by a brunch after and gave us a chance to catch up with our alumnae. On the 18th of March, we hosted our annual event with the Girl Scouts and helped them raise money through the sales of delicious girl scout cookies; nothing made us happier that day than the smiles on everyone’s face.
We welcomed our leadership consultant on the 5th of April and we received tremendous help from her experience with kappa, and we are thankful for all the support we received from her as well. On the 10th of April, we had the chance to meet and greet the brothers from Kappa Sigma Fraternity. And we also had a great turn out at the bobcat day, the 11th of April by mingling with the potential new students of UC Merced. On the 15th of April, many of sisters didn’t hesitate to chop their hair off for a great cause, beautiful length. And we said goodbye to our seniors on the 18th and had a blast later the day at our annual formal, sapphire ball. Our sisters also enjoyed our very own sisterhood event that was hosted by education chairman and standards. We also concluded our semester with a composite photo shoot on the 3rd of May and our last chapter.
On the 23rd of August, we decided to have a CC retreat to plan ahead for the semester as we prepared for our first fall informal recruitment. On the 3rd and the 4th of September, we had our first two events for the fall informal recruitment and we couldn’t been more excited to get to know them more as we had our third informal recruitment event on the 11th of September as well.
On the 12th of September, in order to celebrate the hard work of each ladies, we invited the Kappa Kappa Geniuses who achieved a 3.0 or above to our Academic Excellence banquet. We had our alum mixer followed by the 13th and bid night for the new members who went through fall recruitment on the 14th. On the 18th, we hosted a new member retreat and we also pinned our new members on the 20th of September. We had our annual sisterhood retreat on the 26th of September and it was filled with laughter and great food.
We also welcomed the Leadership Consultant’s visit through the 27th to 1st of October. On the 2nd of October, we had our very own mixer with the gentlemen of Omega Delta Phi and we celebrated our Founders’ day on the 10th of October and got a chance to connect with several alums who came down to visit. We also had our new member retreat on the 16th followed by big and little reveal on the 18th of October. Kappa Lemonade stand on the 22nd of October definitely brought joy to the campus through the planning of Public Relation, and we couldn’t be happier to celebrate the beginning of Fall by going to Pumpkin Patch on the 24th. On the 29th of October, our chapter won the first eco-fest that was hosted by UC Merced for being the eco-champion.
On the 1st of November marks the beginning of initiation week with Sigma Within a Delta. We also elected our nomination chair for the chapter on the day of 1st as well. As we sent of the best wishes from the bigs to littles at Blue and Blue on the day of November 3rd, we also had our annual philanthropic event Kappa Kup from the 12th to the 14th of November. After a successful thanksgiving event that was hosted by the Event committee, we initiated our new members at Fresno State on the 21st of November. We had election for new officers on the 22nd of November and we also installed the officers on the 30th of November. On the 6th of December, as we said goodbye to our sisters, we had the opportunity to bond with them at the sisterhood event. And the Public Relation Committee decided to give back to the UCM community by hosting our annual Kappa Koffee Break.
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