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Why did your chapter choose this organization(s) to support?
Our chapter chooses to support Reading is Fundamental because this is the chosen philanthropy for Kappa nationally. And we chose to support Camp Kaleidoscope because it is a local initiative that allows us to help send terminally ill children to camp. We also chose this philanthropy because many of our sisters at Duke participate in Camp Chasm, which is a partner camp and philanthropy.
==Highlights of 2016==
The sisters in Duke University’s Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter are incredibly talented girls and continue to thrive in philanthropic, academic, and extracurricular endeavors. Over the summer several chapter members represented Delta Beta at the Kappa Kappa Gamma Convention in San Diego, gaining unique insight that they thus shared and transferred to the chapter upon return to Duke in the fall.
This fall we were bestowed the honor as the “Big Sister” chapter to assist in implement the NC State chapter. We successfully aided their fall recruitment process, Bid Day, and most importantly Fireside and Initiation. It was an incredibly rewarding experience to facilitate the colonization of a new chapter, as well as a great opportunity to enhance our Rituals.
Furthermore, throughout the year, we ran multiple philanthropy events on campus to raise money for Camp Kaleidoscope, a local camp that allows terminally ill children at the Duke Hospital to go to camp for a week worry free. First semester, we organized a Kappa 5K, as well as an event called Kappa Kappaccino, in which we sold coffee and donuts during finals week. All these proceeds went to Camp Kaleidoscope. In the spring, we donated and read books with a local elementary school with Kappa’s national philanthropy Reading is Fundamental. This year, we successfully completed two more Kappa Konfidentials as a chapter, discussing prevalent issues that our sisters confront on and off campus. Kappa Konfidential is always a great way to bring our sisters closer together as a chapter, as well as address important topics. Our weekly chapter meetings are held in a lecture hall on campus.
One of our sisters, Christina Gibbons, won the 2016 Women’s Soccer Senior Class Award and graduated a semester early to play on the Women’s National Soccer Team. Another sister, Carly Stern, was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship. Several of our other sisters returned in the spring from their semesters abroad, studying and exploring in South America, Europe, and Australia. This coming summer and post-graduation, our sisters have earned wonderful internships and jobs at, Google, Facebook, the Boston Consulting Group, Parthenon, IBM Watson, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, and Teach for America or have been accepted to Medical and Law School.
Duke’s housing policy remained one of our biggest challenges this year. Our Executive Board, and particularly our House Chair and President continued to work indefatigably to ease the burden from our sisters, but this policy will endure as an obstacle for our chapter in the coming years. Nonetheless, the sisters of Delta Beta are the most genuine, ambitious, fun-loving, and intelligent girls, who never cease to support and respect each other. This passion for life and adventure drives our incredible bond and sisterhood both on and off campus.
'''Chapter Philanthropy:'''
What organization(s) has your chapter historically/traditionally raised money for, or donated hours to, in your community? Reading is Fundamental, Camp Kaleidoscope, and the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation
Why did your chapter choose this organization(s) to support? Our chapter chooses to support Reading is Fundamental because this is the chosen philanthropy for Kappa nationally. And we chose to support Camp Kaleidoscope because it is a local initiative that allows us to help send terminally ill children to camp. We also chose this philanthropy because many of our sisters at Duke participate in Camp Chasm, which is a partner camp and philanthropy.
==Highlights of 2020s:==
