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In October, we held a Kappa Kappa Gamma tailgate during Homecoming Weekend where we celebrated with many of our alums who came back to campus. It was fun to see all of the sisters that graduated last May! We had our second social of the semester in November, Kappa Kappa Galaxy where the sisters and their dates all dressed up in outer space-theme costumes. The week before Thanksgiving we held our own Kappa Thanksgiving, organized by VP Standards, and feasted on homemade Thanksgiving dinner and desserts. It was a great hit! In December, we hosted Kappaccino and gave out free coffee and sold donuts outside of the library during finals week. In addition, each of the pledge classes held their own Secret Santa, exchanging small gifts to get in the holiday spirit before leaving for Winter Break!
==Highlights of 2018==
This year was an exciting year for the Zeta Omicron chapter at the University of Richmond. On January 13th, 2018 we started our formal spring recruitment and we were able to welcome 28 amazing girls into our chapter! During this week, we not only enjoyed meeting our potential new members, but also welcoming back our members in the class of 2019 as they returned from their study abroad programs from the following semester.
Our Bid Day theme this year was “Welcome to the Big Leagues” and it was a hit! Our current and new members all repped Kappa in our new baseball jerseys. After hanging out in our kappa kottage, taking tons of pictures, and getting to know our new members, we all went to a trampoline place to jump around and eat some sweets. Soon after recruitment week, we all celebrated our Junior Ring Dance with our Kappa families. This was an awesome time getting to know the Junior’s family members and being there to support them through the next step in their lives.
After four weeks of our new members having temporary families and getting to know everyone in the chapter better, we finally had big little reveal week. This week was filled with tons of snacks, smiles, crafts, and of course surprises! This year was very special for us because we had a pair of twins! After an exciting week of big little reveal, we had our week of inspiration period. Inspiration period this year was filled with tons of special moments. After rock toss, flowerside, and fireside, we had a wonderful initiation. We were so excited to officially call our new members sisters. After our initiation, we had a delicious catered brunch. At the end of March, our new sisters got to experience their first Sapphire Ball! This was a great way to end the semester before our final exams.
This summer was a great summer for all of our chapter members as they went off and worked internships and took classes all over the world. This summer was also great, because it was the Kappa Kappa Gamma General Convention. We sent three sisters to the convention this year to learn, meet new people, and vote on our important bylaws. This was a wonderful experience and opportunity for the three girls. Not only did they learn from the convention, but they brought back tools and tips to teach the other women in our chapter about leadership, inclusiveness, and sisterhood.
After a wonderful summer, we started off with a great chapter meeting and bonding event where we made fleur-de-lis waffles and played games in our cottage. This was a great way to everyone to come back together and talk about their adventures over the summer. In September, we had our annual Red White Blue and Blue social which was a great way to show our Kappa and American pride! The week after, we had our fall philanthropy, Kappa Kourtside, where we raised $2580. We donated this money to RIF and to an organization called the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention was very important to us this year, because we had multiple members affected by suicide and we wanted to do everything we could to support them.
At the beginning of October, we celebrated our very special Founders Day with a Founders Day quiz, a feast, and pumpkin decorating! This Founders Day was very fun and we got to show off our love and apperception for Kappa. Soon after, we decided to do continuous open bidding and gave bids to four amazing women who embody Kappa in so many different ways. We had a great new member period with them where we went out to dinner with them, watched movies, ate bagels in the cottage and more. We were so excited when we got to officially initiate them on Friday, November 16th.
After our Thanksgiving break, we decided to have one last bonding event. We had a holiday party where we had tons of food and we did a secret Santa. The last thing we did in December before saying goodbye to everyone for winter break was vote on our new CC and it was a huge success! We will officially vote on those members and do our transitions next semester. This was a great year for the Zeta Omicron chapter and we cannot wait to see what 2019 brings us!
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