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Zeta Kappa also held a Christmas holiday sisterhood. We all got together in Christmas sweaters, and made delicious homemade hot chocolate and spent quality time with each other. We also started a tradition of making scrapbooks for each pledge class that will get passed on throughout the years for the future Zeta Kappa’s to enjoy! This year the Zeta Kappa chapter has taken some trips and done certain activities to strengthen our sisterhood. We plan to implement many more sisterhoods to help us grow and learn more about each other in 2017.
==Highlights of 2017==
The past year has been a year of great improvements for the Zeta Kappa Chapter. We have grown stronger as a sisterhood and academically, to become the chapter with the highest GPA on campus with a 3.53. This was above and beyond the goals that we set for ourselves. This is a trend we hope to continue and improve in the upcoming years.
In the spring of 2017, our chapter completed 647 service hours and raised $2,290.49 for our philanthropies. In the fall of 2017, our chapter completed 1,070 service hours and raised $1,170.67. We did this through our philanthropy events throughout the year, Kappacinos in the winter, Key to Kappa in the spring, which ended up being our most successful event of the year, Kappa Kupcakes and Kappa Grilled Cheese in the fall.
In the spring we had a 9 member participate in Bike for Tikes, an event where they ride a bike 180 miles to raise money for the local Children's Miracle Network. Three of the women that participated were on the coordinating committee for the ride. This event is a part of Dance Marathon and as a whole they were able to raise over $300,000.
In the spring we initiated three new members into the Zeta Kappa Chapter. We also had a spring photoshoot where all of our sister got dressed up an spent the day together and had a mini photoshoot.
In the fall, we held formal recruitment August 25th-September 3rd . This was the first time that recruitment could be held in the new chpater houses. 22 women pledged the Zeta Kappa Chapter and were initiated on October 21, 2017. During our initiation weekend we held Kappa Grilled Cheese and also a Fall Photoshoot. It was a great weekend to build our sisterhood and welcome our new sisters.
We have continued to build our relationships with other members of the Greek community. We held many different service events with different chapters in the different councils on campus. We are looking forward to building thes relationships more next semester.
There have been many improvements to the Bowling Green Campus this past year. The university has made many efforts to make the campus more sustainable and green. There are now areas "green" part of campus that will be completed in spring 2018. The university has also improved some of the oldest buildings on campus. From the outside, the buildings look traditional with minor updates like new windows. On the inside, the building have been completely updated. They are modern and high-tech.
The Zeta Kappa chapter has continued to make our new house a home over the past year. We have found ways to make the townhouse style work for our chapter. We have also continued to make sure our sisterhood is as strong as it can be.
The Zeta Kappa Chapter has continued to raise money and awareness for our three philanthropies, Reading is Fundamental, The Kappa Foundation and Kappa Kidney Camps. We hold multiple events each semester to support these organizations. In fall semester of 2017, we held a new event "Reading is Key" where we invited children from area schools to come, complete a craft, listen to stories being read and also receive a book that they could take home with them.
Kappa Kidney Camp is something that our chapter is very passionate because it is a local organization. All of the Kappa Kappa Gamma chapters in Ohio can become involved in this. We have had sister go to the camp in the past to experience all that goes into the camp and to see what we are raising money for. This past summer, our philanthropy chair attended Kappa Day at the camp. She shared her experience with the rest of the chapter and now many women are very excited to go next summer.
We try to meet in our new chapter house as much as we possibly can. We typically only meet here for informal chapter and sisterhoods because the space is slightly limited for the size of our chapter. We are trying to work with the space that we have so we can have every chapter meeting in our house but for now, formal chapters take place in an open classroom on campus meet in classroom on campus to give us enough space.