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In conclusion, Zeta Psi is proud of the improvements our chapter has made this year. We are looking forward to continuing this progress in 2018.
==Highlights of 2018==
2018 was a great year for the Zeta Psi Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma at Wake Forest University. Not only were we able to grow as a chapter, we also made impacts on Panhellenic at Wake Forest overall. Throughout the year we set a lot of goals, and with hard work we were able to achieve many of them. We had two very productive LC visits this year with Emily Quirk. We learned a lot about how to maintain our good standing with nationals and become a more cohesive Chapter Council. After meeting with each member of chapter council during each visit and various members, she helped us set goals to continue growing as a chapter.
The beginning of 2018 was an exciting time for Zeta Psi as we gained 57 unique, passionate, bright, and kind new members, bringing our chapter total to 151 girls. Because we reached quota, we were not able to hold fall recruitment. We look forward to recruitment in 2019, which will be January 9th to January 13th.
Zeta Psi’s education chair worked hard to put on impactful events for the chapter. Some of these events included a gender-based violence workshop hosted by two safe house directors, a guest lecture by Veronica Butler who spoke about becoming an alumnae, and a talk by local Village Juice owners who spoke about healthy eating happens and cost efficient ways to live a healthy lifestyle. Additionally, seniors were able to attend a fun painting event. The seniors also received a senior cookbook for graduation, which is a new Zeta Psi tradition. The cookbook includes all of the seniors’ favorite recipes and serves as a meaningful memory post graduation. Our Vice President of Standards also hosted a pre-exam movie day at the local theater to help members destress before finals.
Additionally, our members have shown great academic improvement. This year we moved up from ranked fifth out of eight for GPA among all sororities to number two. We are so excited about this progress and know our members worked really hard to achieve this. Additionally, our Vice President of Academic Excellence has started incorporating more career planning programming such as Career Trek announcements and helping to connect younger members with OPCD resources. Moving forward, we hope to continue incorporating more events like these because members have found them very informative and maintaining our GPA.
2018 was also a great year for Zeta Psi in terms of our philanthropy. Even though our Kappa Kaddies event had to be cancelled due to weather, we still raised $7500 for Brenners Children’s Hospital in Winston Salem. Additionally, we raised $800 for the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation through our yearly Kappa Kisses philanthropy event and collected hundreds of books for local elementary schools for Reading is Fundamental. Our members were involved in a wide variety of other campus philanthropic events too, including, Wake n’ Shake, DESK, Breast Cancer Fashion Show, Hydrating Humanitate, Hit the Bricks, and Project Pumpkin to name just a few.
Zeta Psi also hosted various fun date function events. The standards committee created documents for Kappa Krew and overall date function expectations that helped the events run smoothly. We are also excited because we have been approved to redo our Kappa lounge in Dogwood Residence Hall, so our house chair has been working on that. Public Relations has been working on maintaining our various social media platforms and has also been sending out chapter newsletters.
In terms of Zeta Psi’s role on campus, we had several members serve on Panhellenic. Alexandra Miller was the Panhellenic VP of Membership, Catherine Seher was the Panhellenic VP of Civic Engagement, and Remi Bohbot served as the Panhellenic VP of Community Development. We were so excited to have so many girls involved, and are proud that Mara Boston will serve as the Panhellenic VP of Operations next year! Our members were very active around campus in many other ways as well.
We were extremely impressed with how smoothly chapter council transitions went last year, and we hope that this year the transitions will go just as well. The previous chapter council worked really hard to create guides for new chapter council members to help guide them through their positions. This year we have been updating the documents with everything we think could help future council members. Transitions are especially important this year, as Corresponding Secretary and Registrar will no longer be their own positions.
This has been a really great year for Zeta Psi, and we are really proud of all of our accomplishments. We look forward to maintaining our good standing with nationals and continuing to grow as a chapter in coming years.
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