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The construction from the new Environment and Natural Resources 2 building finally finished. The Trolley system that was finally completely last year has been running smoothing around campus and travels downtown, as well as to University Boulevard. This system travels along the street located in front of the Kappa house. As always, the University of Arizona is a beautiful and sunny campus with wonderful scenery. Most days out of the year, the weather is warm and inviting, encouraging students to spend time outside. Kappa Kappa Gamma is located directly behind the Student Union, making it extremely accessible for members. Due to its location and large size, the house is easily noticed for all too see and admire.
==Highlights of 2016==
During 2016 Gamma Zeta had an amazing year as a chapter. Gamma Zeta and its powerful Chapter Council provided great structure and support throughout the year. At our National Convention in June Gamma Zeta was recognized and awarded Outstanding Chapter with the National Ritual Award, along with Honorable Mention in Panhellenic, Standards, and Academics. During The University of Arizona's Panhellenic Banquet in December, Gamma Zeta was awarded with Outstanding Dedication to Philanthropy and Highest Attendance in Reflections. We were #2 out of 15 chapters for G.P.A. for the entire Panhellenic Council and #5 for G.P.A. for all of Greek life we and have been able to maintain this GPA for the spring and fall semesters of 2016-2017. Our chapter main focus is on the importance of grades and has implemented many different activities to maintain this high distinction including: Geek of the Week Awards, Smarties Pants Awards, Most Improved G.P.A., 4.0 Pearls, Academic Workshops, and Planner Parties. Our Panhellenic Delegate did an excellent job keeping the chapter involved with the Greek Community. Members are encouraged to participate in other chapters philanthropy events. We had a Monmouth Duo Tea Party with Sister Sorority Pi Beta Phi. While we were able to participate in events outside our chapter, the best events were the ones spent with our sisters. A couple events we help this past year include Kappa Kozy Christmas Party with Delta Delta Delta, Kappa Kappa Grammies Sisterhood Event, New Member Sleepover Sisterhood Event, Founder's Day Celebration and Brunch, Spring Fling with Alpha Epsilon Phi, Keys Overseas, Big/Little Mentorship Program, Homecoming with our neighbors Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and Sisterhood Movie Night where over 250 women attended. During chapter, we recognize those sisters who have gone above and beyond to help everyone with Supportive Sister Award (monthly), Sapphire Sister Award (weekly), and Kappa Kisses (weekly).
One of the most amazing things going on during 2016 was the preparation and planning we had to undertake as a chapter prior to the beginning of a multimillion dollar construction process that began in December. Everyone had to come together to accommodate each other, as women were moving out of the rooms being torn down and into different ones. The new construction is going to include new rooms, allowing more women to live in, new president and standards rooms, a new study room and tv room. A new and improved chapter room is the focus point of this construction. This new enlarged meeting area will provide improved technology and additional seating to encourage more members to attend meetings. We are so excited to see our beautiful home when completed in August 2017. We will be able to use all the new facilities when we return for recruitment and classes.
As Kappa Kappa Gamma, we are granted the privilege to choose an organization that has touched our chapter personally. After much deliberation over wonderful organizations, our chapter voted upon supporting the Pseudomyxoma Peritonei Research Foundation. In total we raised over $27,000 for PMP Cancer Reasearch. We also had our annual Kappa Con Queso event to support Kappa's national philanthropy Reading Is Fundamental. In total we raised $4,450, collected 450 books, and donated 60 hours to Reading Is Fundamental. As a chapter we raised $15,620 and donated this to The KKG Foundation. Gamma Zeta members spent 900 hours doing campus service projects and over 2,400 hours to community service projects.
After much deliberation over wonderful organizations, our chapter voted upon supporting the Pseudomyxoma Peritonei Research Foundation. Alumni Taylor Wood's father and a current member of Gamma Zeta Maddie Wood's uncle Dave Wood (a former University of Arizona football player) was unexpectedly diagnosed with PMP Cancer this past year. Because we found this to be one of the unexpected things in life that make us thankful for our sisterhood, we donated over $27,000 from our annual Hoops for Hope event to PMP Cancer Research. Hoops for Hope is Saturday morning/afternoon event in April we put on at a nearby school's basketball courts and has been our of our most successful fundraisers. Our chapter has continually made Reading Is Fundamental a part of our philanthropy projects throughout each year and have connected with our alumnae group to expand our efforts. In November of 2016 we had an extremely successful annual event called Kappa Con Queso, that all proceeds went to RIF. Kappa Con Queso is always a well attended event that we put on where everyone is invited into our chapter to join us for loaded and delicious nachos!
We meet in our chapter room inside our house located at 1435 E 2nd St, Tucson, Arizona 85719. Capacity issues in our current chapter room over the past years has lead us to have joint meetings with our house board and new construction of our house beginning December 2016- ending August 2017. These rennovations will include a new second story to the house and a new and improved chaper room that should service Gamma Zeta for many years to come. We are very excited about the rennovations and the new chapter room that will be able to house our chapter of over 350 girls comfortably. This new chapter room will help our chapter stand out among other houses who have had to turn to meeting in lecture halls as their chapter sizes have also increased. Holding chapter in our own house continues to keep the authenticity of ritual and binds our chapter together even more.
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