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==Highlights of 2016==
The Delta Alpha chapter had an outstanding year. We progressed academically and continued to strive for greatness in our academics. To go along with our outstanding honors, we also had a very successful recruitment process and welcomed 70 New Members this fall! Our new sisters are so proud to be apart of our sisterhood, and are very enthusiastic to be a part of Kappa Kappa Gamma’s wonderful traditions.
We gained a new THON family last year and are so excited to continue working with them. Our THON families have brought our chapter so much pride and excitement to have the opportunity to dance FTK and spend the most amazing weekend with all of them. In the past there were 3 canning trips per year. One of the challenges that our chapter faced this year was only having 2 trips. Canning trips are where a majority of our fundraising for THON comes from. To overcome this challenge, we needed to be creative and think of alternative ways to support THON and raise funds For The Kids. Our chapter overcame this challenge together and brainstormed effective way to fundraise. Our sisters all sent out extra THONvelopes, donation boxes were set up around numerous hometowns, and we are also holding fundraisers at local restaurants, such as Cold Stone.
We have also been working hard towards promoting our philanthropy Reading is Fundamental. We have been meeting with our RIF partners every week of 2016 and have goals to do more philanthropy for them this upcoming winter. This fall we created an annual philanthropy event called Kappa Kookoff. This event was very successful and all of the profits were donated to “Out of the Cold”, a homeless shelter in State College. We are very excited that this event was such a success and we are looking forward to continuing it in future years! We have been making remarkable achievements in 2016, but there is always room to improve and continue to grow! We are very excited for the year to come.
Our Penn State campus always seems to be improving in one way or another. Our impressive campus offers renovated housing for each sorority, and each sorority floor has a suite as well. The suites are perfect places for our sisters to meet up and study in, or just relax together after a busy day of classes. The Delta Alpha Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma has a sorority suite located in the renovated Ewing Hall in the South Residence area, which is also where we hold our weekly chapter meetings in the chapter room on the ground floor of Ewing.
Thirty-three sisters of the Delta Alpha chapter are given a chance to live on the sorority floor each fall. In the spring, many of our juniors travel abroad, and this gives a numerous amount of other sisters the opportunity to move onto the floor for the spring semester. Living on the floor is a wonderful fortune that our sisters value.
