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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 2017 ==
The year of 2017 was another outstanding one for the young women of Duke’s Delta Beta chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma. Both on an individual and collective level, our sisters have excelled as leaders in our community, with outstanding strides made in fraternal, philanthropic, academic and professional spheres. From a fraternal standpoint, our chapter of KKG received Gold Status at the end of our spring 2017 semester in addition to being recognized for Outstanding Fraternal Values. Furthermore, senior sister Rachel Eastwood was honored with the 2017 Nan Schiebel Award for exemplifying remarkable loyalty to the chapter and the fraternity at large. Sophomore sister Emma Schmaltz also represented all of the sisters of Delta Beta KKG at this year’s Kappa Leadership Conference. We have also continually worked to better our ritual practices, which have dramatically improved with the help of our fun-loving, optimistic and hard-working ritual chair Camille Hayward.
[[File:Delta Beta 2017.jpg|thumb|The sisters of Delta Beta celebrate the 2017 holiday season.]]
In addition to striving for fraternal excellence, the women of our chapter banded together for another year of fantastic philanthropic work. We continued our strong partnership with Camp Kaleidoscope, a local camp that allows terminally ill children at the Duke Hospital to go to camp for a week worry free, by organizing several fundraising events to support the organization close to our hearts. Over the course of the year, we both organized a Kappa 5k as well as an event called Kappa Kappaccino, in which we sold coffee and donuts during finals week to busy students, and donated all proceeds from the two events to the camp. Alongside these efforts, the young women of Delta Beta KKG also reinforced our commitment to RIF, our national philanthropy Reading is Fundamental, by donating books to the local Boys & Girls Club of Durham, NC. However, not only did we just share books and a few hours of our time with them this year as has been done in the past, but throughout the course of both 2017 semesters, our sisters made volunteering at the Boys & Girls a weekly event, returning time and time again to spend afternoons with the children there. With our incredible philanthropy chair Natali Rey, it was undeniably an outstanding year for the fraternity in this area of focus.
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. We have also developed a strong relationship with Camp Kaleidoscope at this point and wish to continue that in years to come.
Finally, from academics to extracurriculars to professional opportunities, our sisters have made tremendous accomplishments in 2017. Several of our sisters are writers and editors for Duke’s newspaper, The Chronicle, while many others teach their own house courses in the spring semester. We have Robertson Scholars and division I athletes, as well as four incoming teachers for Teach for America. Many of our brilliant Delta Beta KKG sisters have completed theses in their respective fields, worked in research labs throughout all departments of the university, and have accepted future jobs with incredible employers including Facebook, J.P. Morgan, Google, Ozy, Jet, and many more! It has been another amazing year with our sisters and we can’t wait to see what’s to come next for them all.
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