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The administration and faculty at Purdue University have always looked to the Kappas of Gamma Delta for outstanding scholarship and leadership in campus affairs. Students regard Gamma Delta as an outstanding chapter and throughout its history the members have consistently maintained the standards expressed in the ideals of the Fraternity.
==Highlights of 2006==
The Gamma Delta chapter has had a very exciting year in 2006. All of our achievements this year are competed for campus wide. A few of our highlights include having Rachel Feldman and Amanda Brothers serving as Old Masters Hostesses. Our chapter also has many women participating in Purdue Student Government. These women are Amanda Brothers and Kendall Hoffman who served on the Marketing Team, Lelia Naizi who was on the International Relations team, Katie Ittenbach who is a part of Board of Directors and Brooke McKinney who is on the Executive Board. We also have women who are apart of the Panhellenic Board of Directors, including Ashley Eiler who is Director of Risk Management. This year we are also very excited because Dance Marathon benefiting Riley Childrens Hospital is coming back for a second year. Abby Dunning is the Greek Promotions Chair for all of Purdue University Dance Marathon, she is philanthropy chair for Kappas and is getting us all involved. In addition to Abby, we have thirteen women who are involved in Purdue University Dance Marathon serving on the Entertainment Committee, Greek Promotions Committee, Event Committee, Morale Committee, Marketing Committee and the Residence Hall Promotions Committee. In addition to Dance Marathon we have twelve women who volunteer with Big Brothers, Big Sister, and many women involved in the different intramural sports we have on campus, including Brett Parker on the Varsity Spirit Squad and Hannah Adams who is a part of the Purdue Dance Team. We have remained in the top five for grades among the other sororities on campus for many years. The Kappas here at Purdue University have a long standing record of excellence and work hard to keep it that way by staying involved on campus and achieving high marks in our studies. We take pride in our successes and encourage others to do so as well.
The Gamma Delta Chapter had a very exciting year in 2006. We were very pleased to be able to initiate 34 new members to become apart of our house. Recruitment went very well with our activities such as making bookmarks to support Reading is Fundamental, our slideshow that displayed the many personalities of our house and a skit that created a lot of laughs. We are also glad to say that for a third year in a row we have not had any infractions throughout the recruitment process. In 2006 we held our very first Relay for Reading philanthropy. It was put on in March and we invited many members of the Greek community to participate in it. The turn out was high and we had many skillful participants from other houses involved in the various athletic events. Our chapter also participated in the Alpha Phi Alpha step show, which is always a favorite, Alpha Phi golf outing and Lambda Chi Watermelon Bust. In the spring we had our moms come and visit for Mom Day where we were able to have the seniors recognize their moms for everything they have done for them. In the fall we invited our dads to come up for Dad day. We had a tailgate for them and then we had the house open for everyone to watch the football game. We also had many of our sisters this year study abroad and take internships around the country. We had a very busy and fun year in 2006.
In 2006 the Gamma Delta chapter concentrated on three main goals for improvement:
1. We are trying to increase our house participation in the philanthropies of other fraternities and sororities.
2. We have also focused on increasing our attendance at Kappa events including chapter and sister functions.
3. As a house we are also trying to always improve our grade point average as a whole.
Through out the year we have had a steady improvement at all of these goals. One example is our attendance at Lambda Chi Watermelon Bust this past fall, not only did we have many women wanting to participate, we had many women come to watch and support our team. The Alpha Phi Alpha step show was also an event that the whole house wanted to participate in and go and support our team in. The second goal is something that we have been working on improving. One very important way we have gained more attendance is by continuing our "senior spotlight" and "skippy jar" at chapter to recognize the increase attendance and reward for coming to house events. As for our third goal, we took a big step this past year by passing study tables for the house. We voted and come to a decision that study tables would greatly increase our grade point average and would benefit us individually and as a chapter. Overall, as a chapter we feel we have succeeded in improving ourselves and our chapter and are glad to report our continuing success.
==Highlights of 2011==
