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In addition to the fun social aspects of this fall semester, we have been working very hard on revamping our fall philanthropy and working closely with both our local and national philanthropies. Our new fall philanthropy is called “Key to Kappa”, which will continue to raise money for our local philanthropy, Sounds of Autism. A member from each participating fraternity will work to raise as much as they can through fundraising, apparel sales and percentage nights at Dave and Busters and Summits Yoga. Winners will be crowned on November 17th after participating in Sounds of Autism trivia, a Kappa apparel fashion show and a talent competition. On October 28th, we will be holding a RIF event at Vector Prep and Arts School where members will volunteer reading, face painting and crafting bookmarks with the kids. We are ecstatic about what we have accomplished this semester and are looking forward to our plans for next semester. Inspiration Week took place November 7th-12th where we initiated our new members and bonded over our beautiful ritual. We closed out the semester with electing our 2017 Chapter Council and are ecstatic to see them excel in the coming year.
==Highlights of 2017==
The Epsilon Delta Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma kicked off the new year with our first sisterhood event on January 27th, which was held in our housing facility; Adelphi. We had a pretzel truck come to supply snacks while we all watched a movie in our chapter room with our sisters! Our annual formal event, Kappa Krush, on February 10th was also a major success. Our sisters got to craft matching paper hearts for them
and their dates to wear for the night. Shortly following Krush, we had an amazing philanthropy event with the East Valley alumnae association on the 27th. We worked with UMOM, an organization that provides shelter for homeless families and individuals in the Phoenix area. At this event our girls and the alumnae were able to read to the children staying with UMOM, to help take their mind off the stressors and struggles that are associated with being homeless.
On March 18th, we had our Annual Phired Up workshop with KJ, who is an amazing speaker and mentor. Our girls absolutely adore her and it is always a joy to watch her speak about sororities and the way we can continually grow within our chapters. The next day our chapter participated in Lambda Chi Alpha’s Philanthropy, Watermelon Bust! On March 22nd we held our 2nd annual Kappa Con Queso event alongside our annual philanthropy, Kappa Kickoff. Both events were greatly successful! March was Jam packed with philanthropic events, as we also participated in Pi Kappa Phi’s Bikeathon from March 28th to the 30th in support of The Ability Experience. Our sisters signed up for time slots to ride stationary bikes throughout the day, and well into the night! We also bought tickets to see one of our own participate in the “Ability Queen” Pageant.
We started the month of April off right with Mom’s Weekend! Our ladies were able to spend the weekend bonding with their moms and sisters over some lunch and bowling. The week following mom’s weekend was ASU’s greek week; where all the ASU organizations compete in events to raise money for Valley of the Sun United Way. We were paired with Sigma Tau Gamma and Sigma Pi fraternities. We participated in window paintings, a book drive, and a Greek sing competition! While we didn’t place in Greek Sing, we are proud to announce that our chapter raised the most money in raw donations; over $7,000! On April 22nd, we participated in the Kappa Sigma Splashdown Philanthropy on April 22nd that we WON for the third year in a row! That evening we had our annual Sapphire Ball; our event that honors the graduating class each year. This year's sapphire was absolutely wonderful. The evening started with a catered dinner, then allowed our guests to enjoy some time on the dance floor, and then ended the evening with senior awards to honor all of our amazing seniors. During the first week of may standards held multiple study sessions at Hayden library and Adelphi for finals before sending our sisters off for summer!
So then summer came along! And although our Kappa sisters were not all together, Epsilon Delta did some amazing things individually. Many of our girls spent the summer abroad, either studying in Prague, backpacking through Europe or hiking glaciers in Iceland. Others, spent their summer interning all over the country. Paramount Pictures in Hollywood, CA, Aloha Medical Supply in Hawaii, the St Louis Zoo in St.
Louis, Missouri, just to name a few. This summer we were also offered a spot in the new Greek Leadership Village that is coming in Fall of 2018 to ASU’s campus. We accepted that offer and are thrilled to move in with the other Greek organizations next fall!
On August 7th sisters moved into Adelphi Commons; our sorority housing! Class Council also had their first meeting of the new semester that evening. During 9-11th of August we had our “polish week” to put finishing touches on the upcoming recruitment! On the 18 of August we had our Greek Block Party, where we got to meet tons of new PNMs and represent Kappa! The 25, 26, 27 of August marked our first week of
recruitment. During the first week of September we finished off our second week of recruitment. Tuesday September 5th was our bid day where we welcomed 80 new amazing new members into our chapter! The reveal was at Adelphi Commons, and our bid day celebration was held at a private pool; where we went swimming, ate dinner and bonded with our new sisters! September 21st we held our first social with the members of Sigma Pi Fraternity, where we dressed in our best thrift shop outfits and spent the night skating and eating pizza with our sisters and friends.
On September 30th we participated in Chi Phi’s Philanthropy which was a capture the flag tournament! On October 11th we had a fundraiser at Chipotle for our Golden Key Gala Supporting Ryan’s house; a local organization that provides respite care to children with life-altering disabilities. That same night we had our big little “speed dating” event; where active members got to know a bunch of new members in leu of our
big little pairing week! That Friday, October 13, Parent’s weekend commenced! We kicked off the weekend with our brand new fundraising event; the Golden Key Gala, supporting our brand new Charity, Ryan’s house. The event was a huge success and we are happy to announce that we raised over $5,900 for Ryan House that evening. This night was made even more special because sisters were able to share the chapters’ activities and our love for Ryan’s house with our families. Family weekend continued on the 14 & 15th and sisters continued to bond with their families!
The next week was a ton of fun as we began the process of matching big and littles. Reveal was held on the 19th at Old Maine; a beautiful historical building on ASU’s campus. After the reveal and many, many pictures later, members went off to celebrate their new fams with pizza, ice cream, and the like! On the 21st we celebrated our Founders Day with the Phoenix Alumnae association, the East Valley, and the Scottsdale Alumnae associations with a lovely brunch. We also got to witness alumnae receiving their 50, 60, and 70 year pins! On the week of the 23rd, homecoming began! It was a week jam packed with events like window painting, dodgeball, a lantern walk, and a parade- all benefitting Valley of The Sun United Way. We were paired with Kappa Alpha Order and Kappa Sigma. We all had so much fun participating and showing our Sun Devil spirit for the homecoming football game that Saturday. On Friday the 27th we also had our “Reading is Key” event, where sisters volunteered to read to Students at Vector Prep School!
On October 29th a pumpkin carving sisterhood event was held in our Chapter room! Afterwards we decorated our entire housing facility with Kappa Pumpkins. We started off November with attending, “Pansgiving”; a thanksgiving meal provided by Panhellenic for all sororities, in the Adelphi Common Area, on the 1st. On Friday, November 3rd, Kappa’s Class of 2017 was able to reconnect with their awesome rho gams at the Rho gam Pajama Jam event! The following weekend we participated in Kappa Alpha’s philanthropy in support of Nikki Beaudoin; a greek woman who lost her life in the battle with cancer.
Monday, November 6th, marked the beginning of the inspirational period and Initiation week for the new members! On the 8th a campfire was held at an active member’s home where the entire chapter was welcomed to s’mores, hot chocolate, and stories from seniors about their amazing time in Kappa. As always, the evening was a major success! On the morning of Friday the 10th, our fireside service was held. The
following morning was initiation, where we initiated 80 outstanding members into our chapter! On November 14, our chapter attended an informative talk with Dr. Lori Bednarchik about sexual consent assault on college campuses. On the 15th we rented out a movie theatre to see a special screening of Bad Moms' Christmas for a sisterhood! Everyone got free popcorn and drinks, and thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
On our last Chapter of 2017, we held elections for our 2018 Class Council, and then went off for Thanksgiving break! Upon return, the sisters who lived in Greek housing held their own late thanksgiving meal! Everyone helped cook and then sat down to watch the Victoria’s Secret Fashion show together. Then, preparation for finals began. Before heading off for winter break, a Finals breakfast was held at Adelphi on
Monday, December 4th to wish all of our sisters good luck and to enjoy one last meal together.
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