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Philanthropically, Rho Deuteron also had a stellar year. Thanks to the efforts of sister Molly Geffken ’19, Philanthropy Chair during 2018, we recreated our Spring Philanthropy from Kappa Karaoke to Kappa Kapture the Flag. We raised over $6,000 for RIF with this event alone, and are so thankful to Molly’s creativity for helping us accomplish this! Our chapter also participated in events like Delta Delta Delta’s Kicks for Kids, Delta Gamma’s Anchor Splash and Anchor Bowl, Delta Zeta’s DZ Dodgeball, and Delta Tau Delta’s Beach Bash. Finally, several sisters volunteered their time to welcome the OWU Class of 2022 to campus by being Camp Oh-Wooo leaders and leading the 488 new students in team building and bonding activities before they started classes.
We are blessed to be such an active chapter on such a diverse, involved, and beautiful liberal arts campus!
==Highlights of 2019==
It has been a fantastic year for Rho Deuteron! This year, we truly learned the meaning of sisterhood both within Kappa and within the Panhellenic community. The year started out with a visit from a Kappa alum who gifted us a framed photo of her pledge class along with the wedding knife used at her wedding! It was great for the whole chapter to see the life-long effects Kappa continues to supply to alumni. For Founders Day, our chapter did not have much of a chance to celebrate in person, as our University was on fall break, but we were able to come together as a chapter via social medias and state the importance that Kappa has had on
our lives. However, during a triplet meeting with my successor, I plan to discuss sesquicentennial plans and how she can begin to plan this, and what some ideas for our celebration may be! Throughout the spring semester, our VPS, Aimen Shah ’20, held many amazing sisterhood events, such as our KKGalentines Day sisterhood event held near Valentine’s Day. Sisters were able to celebrate our love for one another through yoga, cookies, and discussions of what Kappa means to us. We also were able to hold a “Mocktails and a Movie” event with Delta Zeta. Kappa sisters visited the Delta Zeta house and drank mocktails while watching a romantic comedy movie together. It was an amazing opportunity to form more Panhellenic bonds!
We welcomed two new member classes into our chapter in 2019, one in the spring and one in the fall. In the spring, we welcomed 15 new sisters with a “Kappa Land”-themed Bid Day, and 3 new sisters in the Fall with a “Bleed Blue”-themed Bid Day. Both of these were a huge success! At the Greek Awards this year, Sorority Member of the Year Award went to our very own Aimen Shah ’20, Anna Davies ’19 won the Sorority Scholar Award, Dr. Melanie Henderson, our faculty advisor, won the Robert K. Marshall Award, and Amy Collins-Warfield, our amazing ritual advisor won the Chapter Advisor of the Year Award. Our chapter overall also won the
Chapter Philanthropy Award and the Gold Category Chapter Excellence Award. Three sisters, Justine Clark ’20, Makayla Trebella ’21, and Julia Hartlage ’21 were chosen for the prestigious Order of Omega Greek Honor Society, and myself, Gabbi Roszman ’21 attended Leadership Academy this fall. Our chapter GPA currently stands at 3.3, which is above the all-women average here at Ohio Wesleyan, thanks to increased study hours held at the house and the continuation of Gamma Goals. This year, we had sisters study and volunteer in locations such as Costa Rica, Australia, London, Salamanca, Bucerías, Madrid, Moscow, and many more.
Over the summer, our sisters spent their days traveling, working, interning, and researching many different topics from How the Anti-Vaccination Movement is Influencing World Health to
studying Stem Cells and Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. Many of our sisters also assisted in Camp Oh-Woo, part of the orientation program at Ohio Wesleyan which allows integrative, hands-on experience for first year students. We have had sisters involved in rugby, rowing, tennis, field hockey, volleyball, and swimming. Popular majors throughout the chapter continue to be diverse, from health-related field, to politics and government, foreign languages, business and economics, philosophy, psychology, and more.
Rho Deuteron also had a great year in terms of our philanthropy! We were able to raise around $1500 for Reading is Fundamental through Kappa Kapture the Flag in the spring, along with donating over 40 books to a local elementary school! In the fall, through efforts by Natalie Huebschman ’21, Philanthropy Chair for 2019, and Lily Callander ’22, we were able to change our Fall Philanthropy from Kappa Kakes to Kappa Kraze, a 3-day philanthropy, culminating in a Family Feud style event! Our chapter was also happily able to participate in Kappa Alpha Theta’s Theta Bee, Anchor Splash and Anchor Bowl, Delta Zeta’s DZ Dodgeball, Delta Tau Delta’s Beach Bash, Sigma Phi Epsilon Water Wars, and Delta Delta Delta’s Delta Jam. We are also currently planning to send money over to the sisters in California suffering the effects of all of
the wildfires in the area. Finally, as mentioned earlier, many sisters participated in Camp OhWoo as camp leaders to welcome the OWU Class of 2023 to college! Around 1200 hours were donated to community service projects this year by sisters!
