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This year, Gamma Epsilon had their first formal spring recruitment and informal fall recruitment. This past
calender year we gained Spring 2016 and Fall 2016, making wonderful additions to our chapter. We
received an award for parent and alumni engagement in Cathedral Standards of Excellence, as well
as a Standards award at the Kappa convention. We had several successful sisterhood events; in
October, we went to Sorgels, the local pumpkin patch, and in December, we had a holiday event
where we decorated the house for the holidays and decorated cookies.
This year, our chapter really focused on trying to become more involved both in our Greek comminuty and on our campus with other non-greek organizations. One way we showed a great deal of support for greek life was by participating in the University of Pittsburgh's annual Pitt Dance Marathon. There, we had seventeen of our sisters raised over one hundred dollars each for Children's Miracle Network by either participating as a dancer (participants who stood and danced for the full sixteen hours) or dreamers (participants who remained active for eight hours). Through this, our sisters spent the day dancing and raising money with other greek organizations in order to raise money for the kids. Gamma Epsilon also wanted to support other clubs outside of the greek community, and one way we achieved this goal was by supporting one of Pitts improvisation clubs,
Rukus. We collaborated with Rukus in order to support the arts and raise money for the club by sending almost half of our chapter to watch one of their performances and provide them with
monetary contributions, part of which they donated to us to help support our philanthropy.
'''Chapter Philanthropy'''
This year, Gamma Epsilon had many philanthropic accomplishments. At this years dog days fundraiser, we were able to raise a record breaking amount for our chapter of approximately $600.
We also had almost every sister make a dish or a treat to donate to our lunch-box auction, at which
through our philanthropy events, we also raised and donated money to Sigma Chi's Derby Day philanthropy event, which raises funds for research at the Huntsman Cancer Institute, and we came in second place for the event. Our chapter also partnered with the fraternity, Phi Delta Theta, for the 2016 Greek Sing competition where we placed third with our Cinderella themed performance.
We also chose to support Children's Miracle Network by participating in Pitt Dance Marathon and Greek Sing because it is the greek wide philanthropy. We pair up with the other sororities and fraternities on campus and collectively participate in events such as these in order to raise money as a community.
'''Chapter Facility'''
Our chapter has continued to hold its meetings in our on-campus, chapter-owned house. These occur once every Sunday at 8PM, with our chapter council meeting forty-five minutes prior to discuss weekly events and important news.
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