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<table><tr><td>'''Psi Deuteron ChapterPurdue University established 1865, Cornell UniversityWest Lafayette, Indiana'''

'''Cornell University established in 1865Founded January 24, Ithaca, New York1919'''

'''Psi Chapter founded November 242, 1883; Closed October 1969 - 5 charter members787 initiates (as of June 2018'''

'''1,086 initiates (as of 1969 closure)Charter Members: '''

'''1,912 initiates (as of June 2018)Fraternity Loyalty Award Recipients:'''

'''Charter membersFraternity Alumnae Achievement Award Recipients:'''

Jessie Jane CassidyLoverne Christian Cordes, Annie Neale Curtis1996, Linnie Gambeeinterior decorator, Helen Kittredge, Charlotte Smith. expert in historic restoration;

'''Fraternity Council OfficersAdditional Outstanding Gamma Delta Alumnae:'''

In 1914 sorority houses were unknown at Purdue, but Mu Sigma Alpha gained President Stone'''Fraternity Alumnae Achievement Award Recipients:'''s consent to try such a project. The house which was rented on Russell Street was managed so well that the way was paved for other sororities to acquire houses.

Margaret CuthbertIn January of 1919, 1946, NPC executive; Mary Crawford Schuster, 1949, Physician who served during WWI; later became head of Mu Sigma Alpha's petition to the Health Department Grand Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Emily Dunning BarringerKappa was accepted, 1952, Pioneer doctor; wrote of her life in Bowery to Bellevue, which and Gamma Delta chapter was made into a movie; Ruth Shellhorn Kueser, 1960, Landscape architect known for Disneyland designs, received award again in 2006, Architect, urban planning expert; Emily Gorman, 1962, Director of Women’s Army Corps; lieutenant colonel in the Uinstalled.STwenty charter members were initiated on January 24. Army; Adelaide Romaine Kinkele, 1962, Physician Mu chapter from Butler was the installing group and medical director specializing in industrial medicine; Marjorie McKee Blanchard, 2000, Chairman and co-founder of a management consulting firm; author; lecturer; Marilyn Gross Coors, 2006, Ethics and genetics professor, researcherthree national officers were present.

In the mid-1950s the Kappas and the Delta Gammas purchased the lot between them and made plans to enlarge their houses. The Gamma Deltas moved into their addition in the fall of 1958. However, since the kitchen was not finished by the opening of school, the were forced (!) to eat at the various fraternities. The new chapter room was dedicated to Inez Richardson Canan, who had been both province president and vice president and who was the author of the Gamma Delta history which appeared in the 1930 '''Additional Outstanding Psi Deuteron Alumnae:'History of Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity.''

Susan Wolcott (Stuart)At about the time of the opening of the Waldron Street house, Graduate Counselor 1978-1980; Sarah Hanlon (Cigliano)Mother Mac, Chapter Consultant 1984-1986Mrs. Lena McDougle, became housemother, a position she held 23 years. She contributed so much, not only to Gamma Delta, but to all the other sororities, sharing her knowledge of management, delegating responsibilities, teaching the art of living graciously. Gamma Delta alumnae and other friends established the Mother Mac Fund in her honor to help actives in financial trouble.

Cornell University was chartered by the State of New York in 1865 and was opened to students on October 7, 1868. Its founder, Ezra Cornell, Gamma Delta has had saidthree Olympic swimming contenders: Jeanne Wilson (Vaughan), “I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any studyUpsilon-Northwestern,” and although no housing arrangements had been made for women, and no women applied during who affiliated with the first few years, Trustee Henry W. Sage became so interested chapter in women’s admission to the university that he donated money for Sage College, dormitory 1948; Joan Rosazza; and social centerEdith Elizabeth "Beth" Whittall (Couvrette), and female students were admitted in 1871who was also voted Canada's most outstanding athlete of 1955.

The university was highly endowed, its faculty was distinguished, admission standards were high, but breeziness prevailed. Attitudes were fresh, and End of school year activities have been highlighted by the May Day pageants of the first women had scholarship, courage 1920s and character. In the fall of 1883, five women applied to Kappa Kappa Gamma University Sing for a charter (the year beforelast 30 years. Grand Prix weekend, Kappa Alpha Theta had entered Cornell, and Theta Anna Botsford Comstock, later to become a professor of botanyraise money for scholarships, endorsed has ended the application). Within three weeks school year in the official papers had arrived 1960s and with them two members of Tau (later Beta Tau) at Syracuse to initiate Psi’s charter members on November 271970s.

In 1885, Psi ardently discussed Gamma Delta has often been first in scholarship among the question of an open rather than a secret constitutionPanhellenic groups. The next year, Dean Shoemaker Scholarship Cup was permanently awarded to the chapter agitated for a new badge design. When this move was defeated at the Akron General Convention, Psi triedin 1936, and failedin 1958 and 1964 the Kappa Scholarship Trophy was won by Gamma Delta, to develop a new initiation ceremonywith an honorable mention in 1962. When the chapter had to give up its room at Sage its sense A fourth consecutive year of failure and discouragement became acute and a vote first in campus scholarship was taken recognized in 1961. (1888) to return the charterThe active chapter average was a "B" in 1960. Charlotte Barrell (Ware), Boston, then Grand President, came to Ithaca Five Mortar Boards that year and persuaded the group to carry on. At the General Convention the following summeragain in 1967, the Psi delegatewith at least one girl tapped nearly every year, Mila Tupper (Maynard) later attest to become a Unitarian minister, was officially appointed with her chapter to revise and add to the initiation ceremony. Psi’s rebels now had a legitimate outlet for vision and revisionGamma Delta's pursuit of excellence.

Cornell was non-sectarian and might not have been expected to oppose secret societies as so many church-based colleges did, but early Gamma Delta won the Fraternity Efficiency Cup in the 1890s there was strong 1952 and organized anti-fraternity feeling, by no means limited to Cornell: “A growing opposition to fraternities is noticed in many of our colleges … (it) demands the attention of the fraternity world.” (The Key, December 1891) Forty years later, Psi’s historian, the famous Dr. Mary M. Crawford, wrote in the 1930 History of Kappa Kappa Gamma, “The Greek-letter fraternity system is deeply imbedded Gracious Living Award in Cornell, both for men and women. It is an integral part of student life, and with all its obvious faults it adds much to the lives of its proponents. The privilege carries with it a high obligation to give back generously of the results of this privilege and it is the aim of all Psi Kappas to serve their University to the extent of their abilities. If Cornell spirit and class spirit dwindle because of Kappa spirit, then the real object of the Fraternity has failed … 1954.”

Cornell’s attitude toward women had always been adult. There were a few rules The chapter is proud of its contribution of safety Fraternity officers and decorum but never any attempt to stand in loco parentispersonnel. CareerKatheryn Bourne Pearse was director of membership 1948-oriented young women thrived in this atmosphere, there were no dropouts or “bustouts” 50. Marjorie Matson (failuresConverse)was a graduate counselor to Delta Alpha, 1945-46, and women a field secretary, 1946-47. Mrs. Converse served as director of Psi have always been vigorous field representatives, 1970-72, and was chosen Fraternity vice president in their pursuit 1972 and 1974. Eloise Ryder Pingry was elected director of professional careersphilanthropies, 1972 and 1974.

No other chapter has received more Kappa Alumnae Achievement Awards. Margaret Cuthbert was the first, in 1946. At that time, she was director ==Highlights of the women’s division of NBC and was one of three Kappas included in the Women’s National Press Club of Washington, D.C., list of Ten Women of the Year. In 1949, Dr. Mary “Molly” Crawford (Schuster) was honored by Kappa as a Cornell trustee, as head of the Health Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and as a pioneer ambulance surgeon. Dr. Emily Dunning Barringer, the first female ambulance surgeon in New York, was honored in 1952. In 1962, two Psi members received the award: Lieutenant Colonel Emily Gorman, director of the Women’s Army Corps, Washington, D.C., and Dr. Adelaide Romaine (Kinkele), specialized in industrial medicine. In 2006,Marilyn Gross Coors was recognized for her work as an ethics and genetics professor and researcher. This record of achievement is no accident. Cornell has always demanded that its students be aggressive, questioning, independent, factors that make for outstanding alumnae performance.1980's==

It is a privilege to read The 1980’s found Gamma Delta with outstanding pledge classes. In 1987 we participated in the names of Psi members, once names known country-wide, Grand Prix Queen completion. Lisa Smith won 2nd place and names that gave prestige and strength to Psi and to the FraternityAndrea Ingrilli(new pledge) won Queen. The Balch Halls at Cornell were the gift of Janet Jacks Balch and her husband, and Balch Hall at Scripps College also carries her name; Grace Van Sweringen Baer Our housemother was professor of Germanic Languages at awarded the Mortar Board Rose Award for unselfish service to Purdue University of Colorado; Nora Blatch Barney was well known as a civil engineer, architect, contractor and women’s suffrage leader; Bernice Andrews Fernow, Amy Otis, and Adna Huestis Simpson were artists; Elizabeth Rhodes Jackson, Martha Didson, and Lucy Mary Park (Clarke), writers and editor; Harriet Anthony was a pioneer female photography who went . We continue to Boston, hobnobbed work very hard on Special Olympics.Together with Phi membersother Greeks we participated in campus activities like U-Sing, and her own studioGrand Prix plus we had two chapter events…. Another outstanding member was Dorothy Masterman McNeill who retired in 1973 as a Philadelphia newspaper executive. Province and Fraternity officers include Christmas Party for the names of Jennie Angell (Mengel), Grand Treasurer, 1892–94; Graduate Counselor Doris Heath (Webster), 1938–39; Sally Schwartz Muzii, Director of Pledge Training, 1972–75, underprivileged and Mu Cancer Fund raiser.At Delta Province Director of Chapters; two editors of The Key, Mary Josephine Hull, 1894–95, and Elizabeth Rhodes Jackson, 1910–14, Meeting we won the founder of Beta Alpha Achievement Award for Superior Chapter in 1890, Lois Otis; Programming and Catherine Alt Schultz, Director of Membership, 1956–60, Chapter Advisory/House Board Relations. Renovations began to add and 1955–56 Chairman of Rehabilitation Servicesaddition so that 90 women can live in the House. We should be in the house by Fall 1991

The After looking over artifacts and being in contact from alumni of the years 1980-1984, I have found that many things within the Gamma Delta chapter has of Kappa Kappa Gamma have both changed significantly and, surprisingly, stayed the same. Throughout these years, Mrs. Kaiser was the house mom. Formal dinners were held every Monday night, in which a blessing would be sung before sitting down. Some of the girls’ favorite memories of the food of Kappa Kappa Gamma were the "monster cookies" and the cinnamon butter offered during breakfast every morning. For Recruitment, Kappa always been proud went "all-out" in decorations for the last days. Kappa decorated the entrance to the house as a big windmill, in which the potential new members would play mini golf inside of its outstanding the Kappa house with the membersto get to know each other. Also, during recruitment, the favorite snack offered of all of the members was the dirt pudding. Throughout the years from 1980-1984, but the chapter ladies of 1902 Kappa participated eagerly in Football events, U Sing, and Grand Prix. Kappa was commonly paired with the readers men of Sigma Chi fraternity for these events. The Key took ladies and men used to hang out before the events, wearing matching shirts, and then attend the event, sitting together to show their hearts support. For U Sing, the paired women and men would make up dances, practice them for months, and compete to win against other houses. During this time, using songs from the story of Beach Boys with a member who had been basketball captainpreppy theme was very popular. MTV, or the music television station, treasurer was a new channel and the girls from Gamma Delta would sit in front of Sports the tv for hours at night watching the newest videos, usually from various artists such as the GoGos, Men at Work, and PastimesMichael Jackson. Also, member many girls were huge fans of honoraries the soap opera, General Hospital. During this time, computers were not invented yet, so the room that is currently a computer/desk room was used for sewing machines and a professor’s daughterused by women who needed to finish some of their sewing. On January 3Also, whenever the girls would use the restrooms, 1902they yelled "Flushing!" otherwise the person in the shower would be scalded by the water! Also, she died suddenlynear the end of 1984 and the beginning of 1985, house expansion details were beginning to become more realistic and a plan was beginning to be made for the Gamma Delta chapter. At one point, there was eulogized a new member who was involved in the April issue practicing of Rastafarian beliefs, or "cult-like" beliefs. After many encounters with Standards and with the New Member chairman, the house decided it was best to ask the new member to leave and declare her inactive. The Keydecision to ask this new member to leave was not easy because she was a legacy who was able to offer the house lump monetary donations. “The promise of After many private meetings and a noble womanhood house vote, the decision was disappointed in her deathmuch easier. Other challenges include those which we still face today, such as trying to get members to pay dues on time. In 1984, the Purdue Football team,” under the instruction of Leon Burtnett finished 7-5 and in memory of this beloved young person who had “rowed played in the Sage boatPeach Bowl. The defeated Notre Dame,” her parents gave a rowboatOhio State, “safe and well-made” for Michigan. This was the use only time that Purdue had won against all three of these teams in one season. The Kappas participated in this event by attending various football games and showing support by wearing matching shirts. Also, throughout this time period, technology was beginning to become more common. Although the women at Cornellstill had sewing machines instead of a computer room, they began watching tv and listening to music on CDs.

During the 1890s, the meeting place for the chapter had shifted from Sage College to rooms in different parts ==Highlights of Ithaca. In the fall of 1917, a first house was rented and by 1921 sufficient funds had been raised to buy. Janet Balch gave $5,000 “with her usual Kappa-Cornell generosity,” and other alumnae contributed. The house, 508 Thurston Avenue, had been the home of Beverly Baines, romantic partner of early film idol Francis X. Bushman at a time when Ithaca had been the center of the motion picture industry (1912–1920). This house was razed in 1936 and a modern brick house was built on the site. It was opened in the fall of 1937 for the Alpha Province Convention, and was famed as the first Kappa house for which steel construction had been used. At this time, Mary Geisler Phillips, Pennsylvania, (See Beta Alpha history) was corporation president. Her usefulness to Psi might have been said to have balanced Beta Alpha’s indebtedness to Psi, since Lois Otis had resigned from her own beloved chapter in order to found Beta Alpha while she did graduate work in Philadelphia.2006==

In 1957The 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, at Province Meeting in IthacaLelia Naizi who was on the International Relations team, plans were made to build Katie Ittenbach who is a larger house for Psi part of Board of Directors and Brooke McKinney who is on the ideal location Executive Board. We also have women who are apart of the existing building caused 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 decision 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 enlarge rather than rebuildAbby, 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. Many changes were made 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 facilities for visitors Brett Parker on the Varsity Spirit Squad and Hannah Adams who is a new wing with a suite part of the Purdue Dance Team. We have remained in the top five for grades among the house directorother sororities on campus for many years. Two-thirds The Kappas here at Purdue University have a long standing record of the chapter could be housed excellence and the chapter grew more unified work hard to keep it that way by staying involved on campus and aware of its responsibilities achieving high marks in our studies. We take pride in our successes and the pleasures 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 group livingour house. In 1961 Recruitment went very well with our activities such as making bookmarks to support Reading is Fundamental, our slideshow that displayed the dean many personalities of students said our house and a skit that created a lot of Psi, “The women of Psi chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma laughs. We are also glad to say that for a third year in a row we have made not had any infractions throughout the Panhellenic Creed a living reality recruitment process. In 2006 we held our very first Relay for Reading philanthropy. It was put on our campus in March and we invited many members of the student Greek community has profited to participate in it. The turn out was high and we had many skillful participants from their positive leadershipother houses involved in the various athletic events. As Our chapter also participated in the Alpha Phi Alpha step show, which is always a groupfavorite, 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 shown thoughtful concern done for them. In the fall we invited our dads to come up for others while preserving Dad day. We had a tailgate for them and then we had the house open for everyone to watch the uniqueness 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 individualGamma Delta chapter concentrated on three main goals for improvement:1. Their sense We are trying to increase our house participation in the philanthropies of community responsibility other fraternities and sororities.2. We have also focused on increasing our attendance at Kappa events including chapter and their positions 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 leadership 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 campus organizations . The second goal is something that we have been working on improving. One very important way we have earned 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 them our third goal, we took a place of respect on big step this past year by passing study tables for the Cornell campushouse. 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.”

The further report in The Key (winter 1961) included an account ==Highlights of a series of programs given by Psi featuring a travelogue, a concert, lectures on 20th-century Russia, and a plan of meal exchanges and a Christmas party with foreign students. The year was marked by the positive presence of a Graduate Counselor Martha Simmons (Murray), Akron and an outstanding record in campus activities. The chapter President was elected to Mortar Board and Phi Beta Kappa and was accepted by the Yale Law School. A successful attempt had been made to approach a balance between social and cultural goals of the Fraternity, with an active responsibility in campus life and personal education and betterment. It was the stated opinion of the incoming chapter President that “a fraternity must be more than a mere living unit or a group organized primarily for social activities.” It was a statement she felt that had to be true in practice “if the fraternity system is to meet and overcome the increasing number of attacks being made on it.” Long-range planning, she knew, was necessary and the chapter was working together … it was her hope that Psi would continue to follow the example of its early members.2007==

Our chapter had a wonderful year in 2006. Recruitment went very well. We had extremely high return rates and no infractions. We are very excited about the new pledge class, and we think they will continue to make Kappa a place of excellence. In spring we had our Mom'''Changes s day, and several of the mothers came for a weekend of fun activities and bonding. In the fall, the men got their turn on Dads day. We were all able to tailgate and go to one of the football games with our dads. We were also moved up to 2nd in grades among the sororities and 4th in intramurals. In addition, a few of our sisters took on internships and studied abroad during the past year. This proves that Kappas are very involved and Challenges'''motivated.

The 1960s were troublesome years We did not face any major challenges this past year. There are a few goals that we set for ourselves and tried to work on the campuses of the country. Student revolt Our chapter organization was common, although Cornell, always liberal, had less “trouble” than many schoolsnot as good as it could have been. To ensure The new VPO has come up with several good ideas for improving that there were no areas of discrimination or unfair practices on the campus, and we have already seen a change for the trustees prepared a “report on residential environment” making strict demands better. We were also not happy about being 4th in all university-approved housinggrades, including fraternitiesso we set a goal to get back into the top 3. The demands included abolition of mandatory recommendations systems and of the unanimous vote for membershipWe were able to accomplish this, and the surrender of rituals if charges were made that discrimination was suspected in these documentswe are currently 2nd. The Council of Kappa Kappa Gamma decided that such local autonomy was contrary Another thing we really tried to Kappa constitutional procedure work on is increasing our attendance at campus and could not be countenancedchapter events. Overall, I think we accomplished our goal, but there is still room for improvement.Certain irregularities had placed Psi on probation warning in 1967We have been doing fun things such as "skippy jar", "senior spotlight", and probation was voted by Council in January, 1968"supportive sister" at chapter to try and encourage better attendance. We also awarded points for those who came to sister functions.

That June, Council voted to continue probation, a condition to be terminated in January 1969, either by a removal ==Highlights of probation or by dismissal proceedings. In January, the Council voted unanimously to start dismissal proceedings and the chapter was so notified by Louise Little Barbeck, SNU, then Fraternity President. Kappa Psi, a local group, was immediately formed to preserve the existing chapter. A rushing (recruitment) program, which had been planned before the dismissal, was carried out, and the chapter life continued with Psi and Kappa Psi existing in one body until October 1969, when the end of the 86-year-old chapter was marked. The last days were attended by cloudy rhetoric, personal grievances, misunderstandings, lack of communication and unfortunate timing. Psi had been an unusual chapter, with an interesting history. 2008==

It had been of value The previous calendar year was one to be remembered. Our chapter received the FraternityRecruitment award during the Kappa convention, and it has been difficult for some members we also received two honorable mentioned awards. We had a successful recruitment in the fall and received a great new pledge class. We were also very thrilled to be objective number one in considering itgrades for the semester. It We participated in many philanthropies as well as hosted our own in the spring to benefit Reading is interesting to note that even after the dismissalFundamental. Finally, the Fraternity President wrote to the chapter President expressing deep interest in the outcome of the rushing periodour Chapter at Purdue just celebrated its 90th anniversary.

A distinguished alumna wrote Purdue University is one of the largest university systems in the summer 1903 issue of The KeyU.S. and ranks 66th among America's Best 100 Colleges. We are best known for our competitive engineering curriculum and aviation program. Purdue has very diverse students and classes. We have a beautiful campus with several architecturally known buildings and fountains. Kappa Kappa Gamma was the fourth sorority at Purdue. We were founded on January 25, “We 1919 and we currently have the most members on campus. We currently have found that we can keep ninety girls living inside our high fraternity ideal house. Our house is just a short walk to campus and loyalty while losing not a jot is one of the largest sorority houses on our campus. We currently have the highest GPA of any sorority. One of our class spirit members was the first female to hold voting power in Purdue's Student Government. Transition period between new Chapter Council officers and old: Our Chapter typically struggles during the transition period between new officers and previous ones. This year, we brought in one of our college loyaltyadvisors to help us out. The two aid each other instead She explained the importance of using our Leadership Guides as well as the one interest pulling away from many resources of help we have. She did a transition seminar for us which really helped make the other We need transition smooth. Our new Chapter Council members feel much more comfortable in their positions and our goal is to meet all deadlines for the college interests, they need us; we stand or fall togethernext calendar year.”

An initiate ==Highlights of Psi during the 1960s recalled in 1975 a relaxation of the bond between chapter and the Fraternity, a detachment that she felt could have been caused by an increased individual self-absorption, fewer members to perform the necessary jobs, changing mores among college students with greater stress of action independent of parental and school guidance.“I am and I was proud to be a Kappa,” she said, “and I was very grieved when Psi Chapter was dropped. It was a loss for both Kappa and Cornell and most especially for the girls attending Cornell.”---------------------------------The previous information was excerpted from The History of Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity, 1870-1976. The information that follows has been gleaned from available resources including Chapter History Reports, chapter meeting minutes, letters and comments from chapter members and alumnae, the Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity Archives, and The Key. Each chapter is expected to update its history record annually. Contact Fraternity Headquarters at kkghq@kkg.org with questions.--------------------------------2009==

 ==Psi Deuteron Chapter Installed== During the weekend of 41st Delta Province Meeting on April 22–244, 1977, Psi 2009 the Gamma Delta Chapter received two awards. The Gamma Delta Chapter was reinstated as Psi Deuteron Chapterrecognized for House Board Award and for Scholarship award. The Gamma delta chapter also has kept scholarship at the forefront of our chapter. This momentous occasion marked During the first spring semester the Gamma Delta chapter to be reinstalled since Alpha Chapter finished second in 1934grades out of the 20 sororities that are present on Purdue campus.It was with great pleasure that During the Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity Council accepted fall semester the petition of Kappa Psi local to become a chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma and initiate all members finished third in grades out of the local desiring 20 sororities. Academics are very important to affiliate with Kappaour chapter. In 1969 when the Psi charter fall semester President Cordova, the president of Purdue, attended dinner at our house in which she was relinquished able to see our members get rewarded for their academic excellence. - boys basketball team advanced all the Fraternity, Kappa Psi was formed with way to the remaining sweet sixteen- Bill Ayers visited Purdue’s campus and a large number of students and community members and continued protested his visit-NAACP President came to grow speak at Purdue- Purdue added “Stealing Buddha’s Dinner” into the curriculum for incoming students-Jason Mraz visited Purdue campus and prosper as performed a local sorority for seven years until concert in the chapter voted Elliot Hall of Music-Robin Williams comedy tour came to unite with the Fraternity. Kappa Kappa Gamma proudly welcomed Psi Deuteron Chapter into the fold Purdue and he performed in Elliot Hall of Music our sisterhood. There were 46 Kappa Psi actives, 11 Kappa Psi alumnae and 29 Kappa Psi new chapter consists of 140 members initiated during this momentous weekend. At this time, there were 49 men’s fraternities and eight women’s fraternities on campus.- we are very involved in other philanthropies while making sure we pay attention in great detail to our own philanthropy The alumnae -our chapter consists of 140 members- we are very involved in other philanthropies while making sure we pay attention in Ithaca were of great assistance detail to our own philanthropy-We have participated in preparing Kappa Psi members for activities with the Installation weekend. Marjorie Matson Converselocal Head Start, Purduea preschool for low income families, served such as Installation Chairman, an Easter egg hunt and carving pumpkins around Halloween. Children from Head start also came to our campus house in which we read to the installing officers were Jean Hess Wells, Georgia, Fraternity President, children and Sally Moore Nitschke, Ohio State, Director they left with a bad full of Membershipbooks. Jean Ebright Elin -in order to raise money for Reading is Fundamental we hold a volleyball tournament which other fraternities and Diane Miller Selbysororities participate in, both Ohio State, traveled from Fraternity Headquarters along with a date auction to assist Field Secretary Janice Harenberg, New Mexico, who arrived raise money -over the summer we have a few renovations done to help the Alpha Province Directors our chapter house; we had our old roof completely replaced along with Installation of the new chapter and Initiation of its charter membersredoing our old kitchenette.

The Friday evening fireside Gamma Delta Chapter was held at put on probation by Purdue University. Our chapter was also given a focus letter from nations to follow in order to be in good standings with Kappa Kappa Gamma. Our chapter wanted to make sure that we did everything we could to get off probation, which we applied for after the fall semester. As a whole chapter we attended Something of Value and created an anti-hazing program with the fraternity Pi Kappa house with a reception followingAlpha. The Saturday services Not only did we make sure to complete the items that were most impressive necessary of our chapter to get off probation but we made sure to keep up with six alumnae from Rochester, New York, joining our scholastic and community service. As a chapter we continued through the Ithaca alumnae and rest of the many returning Psi alumnae from across year to make sure that we followed the continent. Several legacies were initiated rules and many tears swelled as one 1917 initiate looked at our choices closer to make sure we had made the honor right decision. Anti-hazing is now part of initiating her granddaughterour house and new member programing along with fraternity and sorority community relations.

The initiation banquet was held at Ithaca College, a small liberal arts school, on the other side ==Highlights of Ithaca. A magnificent building housed the Terrace Dining Room—complete with ponds and fountains all inside the dining hall. Some highlights of the evening were the presentation of an original Ritual Book belonging to Psi, which pre-dated 1900. Done on parchment, it was illuminated and handwritten with watercolor pages. The Psi Deuteron President presented it to the Fraternity and she was in turn given a president’s key badge of rubies from the Rochester Alumnae Association.2010==

Beverly Knapp PullisThis past year has been very successful for the Gamma Delta chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma. During the spring semester of 2010, Stour chapter improved academic excellence by moving up from 3rd place among all of Purdue sororities in grades to being tied for 2nd place. Lawrence This past semester, gave the Fraternity a copy fall semester of an old songbook2010, we continued to raise our academic excellence and ranked 1st overall. Also, which she discovered this year, we were privileged enough to have 4 girls attend Convention held in Phoenix, Arizona. Upon the arrival back to Purdue, these 4 women were able to share with the archives of Chapter council and the chapter different ideas and possibilities in areas that our chapter could work on to improve. Since these suggestions have been made, the Rochester Alumnae Association current Chapter Council has made many changes, such as she prepared those made to risk management policies, dance/social procedures, and the New Member program. In the fall 37 new Kappa sisters were initiated and welcomed into our fraternity. We continue to help these young women strive to be song leader for Installationleaders to the Greek community as their success showed when ranking 1st in grades when compared to the other sorority new member pledge classes. We have found that our house continues to move in a positive direction. Also this past year, the Gamma Delta chapter has been working to improve our participation in philanthropies and community service throughout campus. Three 50- This past year pins , Kappa received 2nd place in the Greek Cup held at Purdue Dance Marathon. The places were presented determined by the number of people from the chapter who participated, how much money was donated, various competitions throughout the night, and if any participants held positions in the planning of the marathon. This was the first time that Kappa Kappa Gamma had been recognized at Purdue Dance Marathon. We have many members who are striving to hold leadership positions not only in Kappa, but on the campus as well, whether through Panhellenic Association, Boiler Gold Rush, or by being a student athlete. Perhaps the most surprising of all was We are extremely pleased in the announcement positive direction that Psi alumnae from all our chapter is heading and hope to continue improving our chapter morale throughout 2011. Purdue University is located in West Lafayette, IndianaPurdue offers about 200 undergraduate majors, over 70 master and doctoral programs, 18 intercollegiate sports, and over 850 student organizations.Approximately 45,000 students attend Purdue yearly.Purdue has the third largest Greek community with 46 men fraternities and 29 women sororitiesPurdue is in the Big Ten conferenceSome of Purdue greatest traditions include Purdue Pete, the continent had given more than $1Old Oaken Bucket, Grand Prix, Breakfast Club, , "Hail Purdue",100 to be used for redecorating and the saying "Boiler Up!"The Gamma Delta chapter was founded on January 25, 1919.Kappa house.Kappa Gamma was the 4th sorority established at Purdue UniversityTotal number of members: 136

Marj Converse served as toastmistress, and Sally Nitschke gave the banquet address. A toast was made by a member of Beta Beta Deuteron and a former Kappa Psi President gave the response. A hit of Gamma Delta Philanthropy that helps support Reading is Fundamental: Off the evening was a 64Wall-year Kappa who told about what life was like on campus in 1909. She remembered that the dean of women told the girls not to wear taffeta petticoats because they were too suggestive! The lovely Passing of the Light ceremony closed the evening. Amid rain wallyball tournament and fog on Sunday, a model chapter meeting was held at the Kappa House and then a lovely campus reception followed in the Johnson Art Gallery overlooking Lake Cayuga.  During the years when Kappa Psi local chapter existed, five Kappa Kappa Gamma alumnae served the chapter as a house board to maintain the home at 508 Thurston Avenue. Built in 1937, the house was enlarged in 1957 to house 36 membersdate auction.

==Highlights We have become more involved in other chapter's philanthropies as well as our own and have continued to strive to maintain our outstanding academic performance. With a fabulous performance by Caroline Ladue (Junior) and many other members of our chapter as well as our chapters involvement in the 1980s:==various activities and events we were able to win the new and upcoming philanthropic event Greek Goddess. The fall semester started off with a huge success with recruitment landing us with forty amazing new members we can now call sisters. Our chapter was also successful in bringing an end to our probation sentence while building our sisterhood and fundamentals in the process. Kaylee Waltz, a current senior was honored by being voted and winning the title of Purdue's homecoming queen. On the athletic field Kappa made it to the championship game in both soccer and flag football and were barely beat; still giving the team a second place title. Globally, a few significant events occurred that should and will be remembered.

'''HousingA few of these events include:the 9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan, the Royal Wedding, the assassination of Osama Bin Laden, the last launch of the NASA space shuttle, the 10th anniversary of 911, and the passing away of Apple's founder, Steve Jobs. In the media and celebrity world we witnessed Charlie Sheen''s meltdown and being fired from the show Two and a Half Men "winning", and Kim Kardashian finally got married, and then divorced.

'''Campus:''' Our campus, more specifically the greek community saw a big change this past calendar year. In 1987, the fall semester of 2010 our greek community faced a moratorium after the death of a Purdue student. Because of these events new stereo system was installed; a gift rules and regulations were set in place in attempt to help eliminate drinking related accidents within the pledge classcommunity. This past year required all members of the greek, and nongreek communities to adjust to the new regulations and become aware of the consequences if they are not followed. The greek community grew stronger and and decided to stick together and help each other follow the living room was recarpetedrules and stay on track.

'''PhilanthropyChapter:''' Overall, our chapter contains a very upbeat and positive attidue towards each event and activity with which we are involved. There is never a dull moment inside the walls of Kappa as there is always something to be excited about whether it be seeing one of your sisters after a long day, getting pumped for the big game (Boiler Up!), taking pictures before a night on the town, gathering together before heading out to campus events, or sisterhood functions. There is always someone willing to excite other members, listen to your troubles and offer advice, and pick you up when you are feeling down. We truly have a bond that will never be broken and only grows stronger with each passing day. The closeness between girls of the same pledge class is obvious, but the closeness between girls of different pledge classes is something we pride ourselves for. Age certainly does not matter and, speaking on behalf of every girl within the house, we can truly call each other sisters. As a chapter we are very involved both on and off campus. We are constantly participating in philanthropies, completing community service hours, and are involved in many clubs and organizations around campus.

In 1987Overall, there were few challenges that our chapter had to overcome. The major challenge we faced and had been facing the previous year as well was being on probation. While many see this as a bad thing, it gave our chapter participated time to reflect and reevaluate certain things we had been doing and allowing and think about what we could do to make the chapter better as a whole and to prevent this situation from reoccuring. After taking the time to make the chapter better we were taken off probation and placed on a period of concern. We, as a chapter, continued to promote sisterhood and improve the house and this past semester (Fall 2011) we were finally taken off the period of concern and having learned our lesson we ensure it will not happen again. Along with being on probation we were required to plan sisterhood functions in order to promote and encourage sisterhood. This came as a challenge in the Festival fact that it was difficult to plan an event that each and every member would find enjoyable. To overcome this we tried a variety of Nationsevents and in the end, as a significant campus fundraiserchapter, made of list of activities that the majority thought would be fun. In addition to these challenges, we have faced daily "mini" challenges. These include keeping the house clean and picking up after yourself, remembering to complete an hour of phone duty each week (sophomores), respecting quiet hours as well as other chapter members, alcohol in the house, and only bringing one guest per week to meals.Chapter Convention Awards:

'''Celebration This past year was full of Psi Chapter’s Centennial Anniversary'''many exciting events for the Kappa Kappa Gamma Gamma Delta chapter at Purdue University. We are honored to have received the Dean Barbara Elsbury award, naming us the “Most Outstanding Chapter” on Purdue’s campus. We also obtained first in grades for six consecutive semesters in a row. Academics is something that the Gamma Delta chapter takes very seriously. We always set a chapter wide GPA goal, as well as personal GPA goals. Our most recent semester GPA goal was a 3.1, and we received a 3.35 GPA. Our chapter reached this goal by putting grades first, and attending optional study tables.

Psi Deuteron Chapter celebrated This year, we raised money to support Reading is Fundamental through the soccer tournament and the centennial anniversary of Psi Chapter’s founding Buddy Buffet Philanthropy. The RIF event was held at Cornell during the 1983 homecoming weekendEisenhower Elementary school in Lafayette. We were able to spend time with Head Start Kindergarteners by reading to them and making bookmarks and other crafts. Although The 3 v 3 soccer tournament was a success as we were able to donate all of the Psi Chapter had been inactive from 1969 until 1977, proceeds to RIF and the Kappa tradition was maintained Kappa Gamma Foundation which supports scholarship, leadership opportunities, Kappa’s in need, and more. We also were very involved in other fraternity and sorority philanthropies, such as BMOC and Greek Goddess. BMOC, a fraternity talent show, put on by the local groupZeta Tau Alpha, Kappa Psiraised money for breast cancer awareness. Many members from our chapter attended this event in order to support breast cancer awareness. This Greek Goddess, a sorority talent show, put on by FarmHouse Fraternity, was a special celebration great success as a lot of money was raised for their philanthropy. The Gamma Delta chapter was very involved in this philanthropy and we were ecstatic when one of our members won the 100 years since talent show! Our chapter council, and three members from the 1883 founding freshman pledge class, attended Kappa Province where we focused on the ideals of Psi ChapterKappa and how we could better our chapter overall. It was an amazing experience being with other Kappa chapters from Indiana and being able to learn ways make the Gamma Delta chapter the best it can be.

The weekend kicked off with a Friday evening banquet at Cornell’s historical Moakley House with alumna Dale Arrison Grossman as keynote speakerSome of our favorite sisterhood functions included ice skating, pottery painting, ice cream socials, scavenger hunts, and Zumba work out classes. She was We always enjoy spending time together while doing a Cornell professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences fun event! We had many fun social events as well such as Psi Chapter’s Finance Adviser. Pamela Hanna was toastmistressKappa Kabana, two spontaneous dances, and our spring formal, Sapphire Ball.

Awards and gifts There were many big changes that were made at the banquet included a women’s crew shell by Germanine Miller Gallagher to the women of the crew team, Purdue’s campus this past year. President Mitch Daniels took over office as Purdue's President as President Cordova retired. We are currently planning a tribute dinner with the President in order to get to the ongoing sisterhood know him better, and success of Psi Chapterwelcome him into our home. This was accepted by Psi Deuteron actives and crew members Rhonda Alexis and Susan Reusswig We also just received a new football coach, Darrell Hazell. The presentation of We are very excited for alumnae to come visit during football season! We also have a commemorative scholarship to Cornell University was made by Eloise Moore Netherton, Texas, Director of Philanthropy, very nice and was accepted by Janice Oblacknew recreational center, Assistant Dean which is where some of Fraternities and Sororitiesour sport intramurals are played. The evening ended with special recognition given to Kappas Our home had some new additions put in attendance, such as Jewel Shawnew flooring in our front foyer, who was the eldest Psi alumna to travel to Ithaca for the celebrationnew front steps, bathroom renovation, computer room renovation, and our chapter room is currently getting repainted.

The reminder ==Highlights of the weekend was spent in a whirl of homecoming and Centennial activities including Saturday’s continental breakfast, tailgate party prior to the homecoming football game against Yale, and Sunday morning’s farewell brunch held at the Kappa House where alumnae were able to enjoy historical memorabilia, tour the house and reminisce with old friends.2013==

During the 1987-1988 This past year, brought many exciting moments to the Gamma Delta chapter organized at Purdue University. We are extremely honored to have received the first sorority sponsored blood driveDean Barbara Elsbury award for “Most Outstanding Chapter” on Purdue’s campus by a unanimous vote. In addition, chapter members went we won the Panhellenic award and Academic Excellence award as well as the Recruitment honorable mention award at Province. Closer to Colgate to help with home, we received the installation Highest GPA award and a Certificate in Excellence in Sisterhood at Purdue’s Greek Gala. Academics are of that new the highest importance to our chapter, and we were ecstatic when we received a chapter GPA of Kappa Kappa Gammaa 3.35 for the Spring 2013 semester which put us in first for grades for the sixth consecutive semester. New house parents, Dave and Mims Zimmermann arrivedWe will all continue to strive for academic excellence in the coming year.

In 1988–89 As a new house family arrivedchapter, Dave, Anna we raised money for Reading is Fundamental through our Buddy Buffet and (three year old) Whitney Brown“Kick Away the Cold” 3v3 soccer tournament. We held our RIF event at a local elementary school in Lafayette. The chapter served as At the Big Sister sorority for Alpha Omicron Pievent, we read to the children and helped them make bookmarks and other crafts—it was a blast! Our soccer tournament with Delta Sigma Phi was a new sorority great success and allowed us to donate money to both RIF and the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation. We also got very involved with philanthropies put on by other sororities and fraternities on campus. Each Some of these included Zeta Tau Alpha’s BMOC, a fraternity talent show to raise money for breast cancer; FarmHouse Fraternity’s Greek goddess, a sorority talent show in which one of the six schools our own sisters won, and Delta Gamma’s Anchor Splash, a swimming and synchronized swimming competition. We had a ball at Cornell was represented by members of Kappa Kappa Gamma philanthropies this year. The chapter participated in the Greek-wide clean-up and planted crocus bulbs cannot wait to participate in front of the women’s dormitorymore next year.

==Highlights Gamma Delta chapter is extremely active on campus, with our members involved in almost every club. These include Board of Directors for the 1990s==Panhellenic Association, Purdue University Dance Marathon, the Odyssey, RISE, fitness instruction at the CoRec, Cheerleading, Child Mentors for Kids, and many others. Despite all of our involvement, we always find time to spend together. Some of our favorite sisterhood events included Zumba, pottery painting, ice-skating, going to the pumpkin patch, and especially renting out a theater to see the latest Hunger Games movie. It was a great time! In addition, we had four great dances this past year which included Kappa Kabana, a luau-themed dance, two spontaneous dances, and a gorgeous spring Sapphire Ball formal. This year brought us a new Purdue president in Mitch Daniels; he has frozen tuition campus-wide and has made an effort to meet as many students as he can. His friendliness is infectious and has made for a very warm atmosphere on campus. We are in talks with his secretary so President Daniels can make a visit to Gamma Delta chapter this semester. The new, gorgeous recreation center has been put to great use and is a fabulous place to work out. We are also very excited about the renovations to our kitchen, informal living room, foyer and bathroom.

In 1990, a window This past year has gone by so fast and was filled with great memories at the Kappa Kappa Gamma crest was installed house at Purdue University. Within the Gamma Delta chapter, we have high expectations for all of our sisters to participate in the foyercommunity, excel in academics, designed and constructed by alumna Debra Yelvertonbe active members in the house. In addition We have had great things happen in the past year, including an amazing recruitment where we got to welcome home 39 new members. It has been so much fun getting to know the living new members and dining rooms for them to learn all about Kappa. This past year, we were redecorated able to get involved and participate in other houses’ philanthropies. Some of these included Sigma Nu and Delta Zeta’s turtle tug, Sigma Chi’s Greek Olympics, Pi Kappa Alpha’s fireman challenge, Zeta Tau Alpha’s BMOC, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Delta Gamma’s Anchorsplash. It is so much fun to get involved in other sorority and fraternity philanthropies because the whole Greek community gets together for a good cause and compete in fun games. We are really proud to say that our philanthropy event, Kappa the Flag, was the most successful philanthropy we have hosted yet. We raised more than $1000 for our philanthropy, Reading Is Fundamental. We also hosted a very successful blood drive with wall paper the American Red Cross at our house this past fall. Our chapter has recently gotten more involved in community service, specifically getting involved in serving at the Boys and curtains Girls Club every other week. Members of our house are also very involved in almost every club on campus including PUDM, College Mentors For Kids, Panhellenic Association, the Odyssey, and many other academic clubs. We were very excited that two of our members were Indianapolis 500 Festival princesses last May! Our chapter has been making a great effort to stay involved in the basement was repaintedcommunity and to remember to take opportunities to help others.

In 1994, Over the summer the Gamma Delta chapter along with other sororities on installed air conditioning and it was one of the best improvements to the house. It made recruitment and the hot days so much more enjoyable. We are very thankful for the house board that was able to make that happen! On campus participated in this past year, our university experienced a traumatic shooting and as a house we came together to support one another and support the university. Many of our sisters attended the candlelight vigil to honor Andrew Boldt and support his family and friends. In the fall we were very successful food drive excited to welcome Purdue’s Greek director, Brandon Cutler, to our house for the Salvation Armydinner. In 1995 Also, for homecoming weekend we had a Kappa alumni tailgate which was a fun way to meet alumni and hear their stories and experiences from living in the house years ago. Our chapter took part in numerous campus-wide is full of wonderful girls that are loyal to the sisterhood of Kappa Kappa Gamma and community-wide philanthropic events, including the Salvation Army canned food drive we are optimistic and clothing drive very excited to see what this coming year has in store for the needyGamma Delta chapter.

In 1994, Psi Deuteron chapter was named “All Sports Champions” for intramural sports. House parents Tom ==Highlights of 2015==February we gave out Hershey kisses and Amy Fisher welcomed son Thomas into their family encouraging notes to students on campus! We have also had several programming nights that include education about mental illness and the chapter welcomed him home from the hospital in Februaryhealth. The chapter goal Mental illness is a very prevalent topic for the year was “Participation + Sister Involvement = PSI established to improve the productivity of the chapter through committees a college campus and sister cooperation. The chapter also accepted the Challenge we want to Excellence for the fourth year in a row make sure that each and fulfilled 94% every one of our sisters feels comfortable to share their struggles or feelings so that we can guide them to be the fraternity requirements.  The 125th Anniversary Celebration was held in October 1995best woman they can be. The Our chapter helped Thomas celebrate his first birthday as the Psi chapter’s ‘house baby’ complete with cake is always improving and ice cream. And, Thomas walked and talked for the chapter at the party! The chapter had women participating in soccer, crew, ski, hockey, polo, squash, and water polo during the year. The chapter participated in fall rush for the first time, recruiting five new members continuing to compliment the 26 women pledged in the spring. New house parents, David be loving and Debbie Passey announced the expectation of a new baby, due in April supportive of 1998one another. ==A New Millennium - Highlights of 2000-2010==

From Academics have always been one of our chapter’s History Report: Scholarship, group honors/awards, traditions, special events, changes on campus or within chapter, overall nature of highest priorities. In the chapter, chapter goals, challenges and how they spring semester we were overcome, etcvery proud of our house GPA of 3.34.:  '''Housing:'''  The chapter Our goal for next semester is faced with an older, aging facilitya 3. In 2005, the house was rewired 35; we really respect one another and motivate each other to provide a better internet system and the availability of wireless hook upsstudy. The ‘quarter-needing’ washings and dryers were removed and replaced with new state One of the art machines. Plans were underway to do some basement leak repairs and renovate best parts about being in the hardwood floorshouse is that you can always find yourself a “study buddy.  '''Philanthropy:'''  ” The women in our chapter organized philanthropic events benefiting local causes including Kappa Dogs where members sold hot dogs to raise money for the Family Reading Partnership (are truly brilliant; there are a local literary program) wide variety of majors and the Chili Cook-off where members collected canned food I have no doubt in anyone’s success. Our seniors are already being offered wonderful jobs and raised money for we wish them the United Way best of Tompkins County. luck after graduation!

In 2008This past year we have had a lot of fun at dances and sisterhood functions. Some of our favorite sisterhood functions have been ice skating, writing valentines for soldiers, watching Halloween movies in the bum, going to see the Hunger Games Mockingjay movie, and having a Frozen Yogurt truck come to the house! Sisterhood is a priority for our chapter participated so when we have sisterhood functions it’s always a good time to remember how thankful we are for each and every one of our sisters. We have had very successful dances this past year; in many different philanthropy events on campus the spring we had Sapphire and in the Ithaca community including Relay for Life fall we had Barn Dance. Both dances were planned well and Daffodil Days everyone seemed to raise awareness and money for cancer, Into the Streets have a blast! During homecoming weekend we hosted a Kappa Alumni tailgate. It was fun to get to meet older Kappa’s that have come back to serve see the local community with service projects, the United Way of Tompkins County to support and annual campaign, house and hear their experiences when they lived in the Elf Program which provides backpacks filled with school supplies for underserved childrenhouse.

In 2009, the chapter was very busy philanthropically. The chapter held it’s third annual Kappa Dogs event This past fall we came back to raise money for school from the Family Reading Partnership, had Trick or Treat at Kappa, helped with reading and working on crafts including face painting kids at the Greater Ithaca Activities center and the public library, decorating cookies for IthaKids, selling tanagram kits for spring break to fundraise summer excited for the Gaza crisis, and starting a penpal program recruitment and donating children’s books to Even Start. In addition, meet the chapter donated $25,000 to Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga Even Start, a program aimed at creating family literacy through adult education, early childhood education, childcare, and parent-child workshopsnew pledge class. Chapter Convention Awards: At the 2004 Kappa Convention, the chapter received an honorable mention for Outstanding Recruitment and Risk Management. And, the chapter received an award for Most Improved Chapter as well.  During 2004-2005, when the chapter was cleaning the archive closet, pledge books and old Kappa letters dating from the 1800’s There were discovered. Archives and pledge books changes in recruitment on campus including that Gamma Chi’s were displayed every Sunday for members to peruse. The Psi Deuteron chapter was recognized by Cornell University for being the Most Improved Chapter affiliated with chapters and Chapter with the most Outstanding Service to that the Community. In 2006, Psi Deuteron Chapter skits round was awarded the Most Spirited Chapter during Greek Week on campus, no longer a week part of competitions in which all Panhellenic groups participaterush. The chapter has continued to participate in Creating Chapters of ExcellenceThese changes made recruitment slightly different, which brings many of the sorority but we made it a positive change and fraternity groups on the Cornell chapters together through events recruited 38 genuine and discussionsbeautiful girls.  In 2007, Psi Deuteron chapter received the Outstanding New Member Education Program award from Cornell University during the year.  The chapter took up the challenge to strengthen its 2009 New Member program during the year. In addition, the chapter implemented some new senior programming activities This pledge class learned all about Kappa and placed more emphasis on committees was able to allow members to participate be initiated in improving the chapter presently and into the futurelate October.

During 2009–10, the chapter put in a lot This past year has been full of effort fun memories. Our house is always looking for ways to unify the chapter improve and promote a positive image support one another. I’m excited to see all of what comes of Kappa Kappa Gamma. Sister-sister bonding events included rotational dinners, a senior-sophomore dinner, cultural foods night, an alumni event called Baila Con Kappa Salsa Night, Trillium Tuesday lunches and a Homecoming/Founders Day Brunch with alumnae. the next year!

==Highlights of 2011-20192016==Scholarship, group honors/awards, traditions, special events, changes on campus or within 2016 has been a great year for the Gamma Delta chapter! We have continued to build strong relations with other chapters in our Panhellenic community here at Purdue. On multiple occasions, overall nature of some ladies from the gamma delta chapterhave done Kappa acts of kindness around campus. In December, chapter goals, challenges we passed out “kappa chinos” to students that passed by at a booth that we set up. We loved doing this and how they were overcomeit warmed a lot of students up on their walk from class. In February we passed out Hersey kisses with a sign that said, etc“Kisses from kappa”.:

==Highlights We have also had a few programing nights. One of 2011==the programming nights was a presentation about HIV. We learned all of the causes, symptoms, risks, and preventions methods. This was a very interesting presentation and we received a lot of useful information.

During We have always enjoyed coming together as a whole chapter outside of our weekly chapter meetings. We have gotten together as a whole chapter a lot throughout this year during sisterhood functions. Some of our Spring semester to Fall semester 2011, favorite sisterhood functions have been when we had several eventsall went ice-skating, highlightshung out at the house and made valentines and candy bags to send to troops overseas, sources of pridewrote letters to our mothers and played board games, went to the movie theater and an overall enjoyable year for saw the members hunger games, and officers had a frozen yogurt truck come to the house. Our Vice President of Psi Deuteron as Standards has done an amazing job at planning sisterhood functions that we continued all enjoy doing and enhanced that allow us to focus on the high quality values of Cornell's Kappa Kappa Gammaour beautiful sisterhood. It all began after Spring semester rush 2011, where Our dances have also been very successful this year! In the spring we had several sisterhood bonding activities for the new members to get to know each other Sapphire and in the already active members to get to know themfall we had Barn Dance. Later, a conference, "Emerging Leadership Experience," was held by the Fraternity Both dances were planned well and Sorority Affairs Program specifically for two representatives of each Greek organization where we learned how everyone seemed to be have a better leader for our organization. blast!

This year the philanthropy chairs organized several events: the 4th annual Kappa Dogs Sisterhood is something that is very important to raise money us but academics are also a top priority for our chapter. In the Family Reading Partnership (a local literacy organization); Trick or Treat at Kappa; and reading with kids at spring semester we were very proud of our house GPA of 3.34. All of the ladies have been working so hard this year towards improving their personal GPA’s as well as the Tompkins County public librarywhole house GPA. The chapter also participated in philanthropic events held by the community, campus, We all motivate and push each other Greek houses to raise money for various charitiesbe the best we can be as a scholar and as a woman. These events included Relay for Life, a charity dinner at Alpha Gamma RhoSome of our seniors are graduating in December, a charity dinner at Alpha Delta Phisemester early, as well as being offered some awesome jobs and Jog for Jill 5K to raise money and awareness for Ingred Nunez against lung cancer. Members participated in the College Town Clean-up and participated in "Into The Streets" where volunteers completed valuable and beneficial community work throughout Tompkins counties. Kappa Kappa Gamma was actively involved in campus Greek life at Cornell University. we couldn’t be more proud of them!

Additionally, Kappa Kappa Gamma participated in other Greek houses' events: Sigma Chi's Derby Days and Delta Gamma's Anchor Slam. Furthermore, Kappa participated in Greek Week, which is an event designed to raise awareness of the Greek community to freshman as well as to promote a positive image of the Greek community. Also, We have been working on improving our relations with Alumnae this year Psi Deuteron put in a lot of effort to unify the chapter and promote a positive image of Kappa Kappa Gamma. Sisterhood bonding events included a coffee tab at libraries, rotational dinners, a senior-sophomore dinner, an alumni event, and Founders Day where local alumni were We invited Alumnae to come visit the house. Also at every chapter, and our Kappa Kudos were given out to recognize women for various achievementstailgate during homecoming weekend. Women were also recognized for good grades It was so inspiring seeing all of the Alumnae that still bleed blue and received "Smart Cookies" for obtaining a 4.0. The girls hearing all of Psi Deuteron promoted KKG by wearing Kappa-related clothing for "T-Shirt Tuesdays"their kappa stories that they cherish. LastlyOver the summer, Kappa Kappa Gamma members we had the opportunity to participate some renovations done in a program, "Reflections," to raise awareness about the dangers of fat talk informal and formal rooms. The alumnae that visited loved the impact it has on women's self-esteem and confidence. improvements!

'''Campus:''' Cornell UniversityThis fall, one of seven Ivy League institutions, was founded in 1865we made it through another successful recruitment. Cornell is composed of seven individual collegesWe added 41 smart, with more than 13,000 undergraduates attending the university. Academic rigor is the hallmark of the University as its commitment beautiful women to diversity with "Any Person, Any Study" being its creedour sisterhood. Thirty percent of the student population is involved in the Greek community, consisting of 12 Panhellenic organizations, 42 fraternities, This pledge class learned all about Kappa and 16 Multicultural Greek Letter Council chapters. Due was able to these numbers, Cornell University is currently the second largest Greek system be initiated in the countryearly November.

'''Chapter:''' Kappa Kappa Gamma continues This past year has been very memorable. I am so lucky to be a strong house within Cornell's Greek community. The Psi chapter was founded at Cornell University on November 24, 1883, able to call all 148 of these women my sisters and today consists of 111 active members. I’m excited to see what all we can accomplish next year!

Despite the high standing position Kappa Kappa Gamma is, there still are a few chapter challenges that can be improved. During our last council meeting of the semester, we talked amongst our group to figure out a few main goals for the following year. First, we stressed the importance of improving our communication skills by having a group email for our council to achieve convenience for our officers, form clarification for clearer transmission to each member, and a cohesive council voice to all the members during chapter. Next, we would like to concentrate on programming in general such as adding interesting and fun events to get more senior attendance, a better new member period program to allow the new member group to quickly become as comfortable as possible.  '''Chapter Convention Awards:''' During 2011-2012, Psi Deuteron members had the opportunity during the year to participate in a program called ‘Reflections’ which raised awareness about the dangers of fat talk and the impact it has on women’s self-esteem and confidence. In the academic year from 2012 to 2013, Katie Solomon-the chapter's past president-received the John S. Dyson Citizenship Award. The award is given annually as a part of the A.D. White Leadership Conference to a student within the Cornell University fraternity and sorority community who has exemplified exceptional leadership within the Greek community, and who has demonstrated a strong commitment to community service, philanthropy, scholarship, and citizenship. In addition, Psi Deuteron chapter also received Most Spirit During Recruitment Award.  ==Highlights of 20132017==  This year, Psi Deuteron made great strides. We had several members of our chapter apply for Kappa scholarships and six of them were awarded aid. In addition, we were awarded the Alpha Province award for Most Spirited Recruitment for our work during recruitment week in January of 2013. We had two of our sisters elected to the Cornell Panhellenic Judicial Board, and three new members served on Cornell Junior Panhellenic Board. Our current president, Corey Matthews, participated in the Kappa Kappa Gamma Leadership Academy in October of 2013, honing her leadership and interpersonal skills in preparation for her term.  Psi Deuteron took on several new philanthropic projects in support of Reading is Fundamental. These included Cornell’s first ever annual Kappa Kickball in which the chapter invited all members of the Cornell community to participate in a kickball tournament for a fee which benefited RIF; a visit from The Nomad Truck, a boutique on wheels which generously donated 10% of the proceeds from a day of shopping. We have continued to work closely with a local Ithaca elementary school, Caroline Elementary to provide day care services, to read with children and to participate in mentor and peer-to-peer programs. One of our sisters, Erica Baevsky brought her charity work for GoPink, an organization benefiting breast cancer, to Cornell and to Kappa, putting together a gala and awareness seminar, both of which were sponsored by and participated in by Psi Deuteron’s members.  We have been challenged by new changes to the Cornell guidelines for new member education and are working hard to make sure that our chapter abides by both the standards of the University and of the Fraternity. We are also working hard to improve our leadership, working closely with Leadership Consultants and Kappa Trainers in addition to instituting extensive committees. In addition to providing services to the chapter, these committees have also served to educate and train members to take on new positions. As a chapter we have also been working to improve our recognition of exemplary members who contribute to our Cornell, Panhellenic and Kappa communities, instituting several award and incentive programs including the “President’s Key,” in which we recognize members of our chapter council who have gone above and beyond their duties to improve out chapter. Recently, Cornell has been working very hard to make greek life as safe and positive as possible for all students. This has included a re-working of new member guidelines to include a shorter new member period as well as a dry period that closely resembles the Kappa program, in which new members are asked not to be in the presence of alcohol. This has been an excellent contribution to greek life, making the new member education period a safer and more comfortable experience for all greek chapters at Cornell. We were also very pleased by Cornell’s recent dedication to eliminate hazing on campus. Psi Deuteron has been working very closely with greek advisers to make sure that our commitment to anti-hazing is upheld and that it inspires other chapters to be vigilant about reporting and eliminating hazing. Our chapter is happy to be more integrated with the rest of the greek community, instituting women’s social and educational events, and co-sponsoring philanthropic events.  Psi Deuteron’s greatest strength, however, has always been our genuine relationships with one another and our overwhelmingly strong sisterhood. We firmly believe that, despite whatever challenges we face as a group, our dedication to one another will make us successful. Most members of Psi Deuteron would agree that our Sisterhood Dinners are the best events of our semester, where we invite all members to come out to dinner together at a local restaurant. Having all of our members in one place at one time in an informal setting is a wonderful experience and reflects our deep bond.  ==Highlights of 2014==2014 was a great year for Psi Deuteron Chapter. This year we sought to improve our academic records and keep promoting sisterhood.  After hard work from the Academic Excellence Committee and chapter members, our chapter improved the overall GPA and became ranked third among our Panhellenic sister in grades. This achievement helped us to gain an honorable mention for improvement in grades at convention this summer. We were pleased to have our president, Corey Matthews, attend and represent our chapter's interests at the convention.  We have promoted sisterhood through more informal sisterhood events. Pizza and movie nights at the house and study days have helped the sisters of Psi Deuteron to be closer than ever.  We have also seen a great increase in leadership for the women of Psi Deuteron. We had two sisters participate in a class that had a curriculum focused on increasing Greek involvement in service and leadership on campus. This class is open to all members of the Greek community and helped Psi Deuteron to learn about new ways to integrate the curriculum into our chapter goals. We also were thrilled to have two members of Kappa Kappa Gamma elected to Panhellenic Council in November. They will serve on council for the 2015 calendar year.

Psi Deuteron The Gamma Delta chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma had a wonderful year in 2017. Our chapter has also kept busy through grown and strengthened our sisterhood bond. This year we had 18 outstanding women on our chapter council leading and implementing new, creative ideas to our philanthropy workchapter. We have continued our partnership started off 2017 with Caroline Elementary. This program gives sisters the opportunity to give back to the Ithaca community by tutoring exciting sisterhood activities such as ice skating and mentoring childrencanvas painting. Psi Deuteron also raised the most money Our goals for the Cornell Relay for Lifeacademic achievement were implemented with study tables and other things. We received the "Jade Award" had an amazing year for our commitment to philanthropy. Not only did we increase the event through fundraising. We are excited to continue number of philanthropy events we held, our community involvement and plan new ways chapter was very involved in which we can serve our communityother Greek life philanthropies.

Psi Deuteron Recruitment kicked of the 2017 fall semester, and we added 40 new incredible members! As the years go by, Purdue's Panhellenic society and Greek life has had many successes continued to grow. Due to this year, we have been increasing the number of women in each pledge class! In 2017, our chapter also received the Fire Safety award and we are eager to see the changes that 2015 brings to Panhellenic President of the Year award for our previous chapterPresident at our Purdue Greek Gala.

Cornell has had a few notable changes in regards In 2017, Purdue was undergoing many projects such as the construction of many academic buildings and the State Street Project. Due to Greek life this year, there was a lot of construction and closed roads. The first is Concluding the takeoff year, almost all of Tumblrthe projects were finished, and the roads were open again. These changes ultimately made our campus more beautiful! This social media platform became very popular among Our chapter has held our panhellenic sisters strength and we enjoy posting pictures that showcase our spirit continued to push through life upholding the Kappa ways. We are very proud of sisterhood and adventure. Our PR Chair is responsible for the project, and chapter we are so grateful for her commitment. (The tumblr can be seen at kkgcornell.tumblrtoday.com)

The second great change This year, we donated funds to our Greek system was expanded with Reading is Fundamental and the addition Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation. Our philanthropy events consisted of Phi Mu a 5K Kolor Run on Purdue's campus and our annual Wing Night hosted at our chapter house. All money raised from these events went to Cornell University! We looked to welcome the new United Way of Greater Lafayette. United Way hosts a Kindergarten Camp where members of our chapter by recommending women for their fall recruitment volunteered and attending their benefit concert later in October. We are thrilled raised enough money to see more women choosing to go Greek at Cornell buy 3-4 books and commend the achievement of Phi Mu at Cornell thus farschool supplies for 300 children.

In January, our chapter grew We also volunteered at local elementary schools by 58 women after an extremely successful formal recruitmentreading to students through their Read to Succeed program. The New Member program helped Our chapter also donated holiday treat bags and books to integrate these women into our chapter in elementary schools throughout the 4 week long new member periodyear. Cornell shortened the allowed new member period once again We focused on reaching out to accommodate the needs of Cornell's students. These changes have helped our chapter local community--volunteering our time and funds to become more active programs in the panhellenic communityour area. We have enjoyed getting to know Our chapter finds this very important because we can grow and maintain relationships with the other chapters on our campus children and look forward to continuing to increase involvement during 2015programs throughout the years.

We have promoted sisterhood through more informal sisterhood events. The younger member classes enjoy bonding at our house, while the senior member class has had an increase in programming that has been beneficial to them. The seniors have gone on trips to the orchards near Ithaca and to local art classes to make sure their last year in kappa is one full ==highlights of memories.2018==

The Gamma Delta Chapter has had a very successful 2018. We have also seen a great increase in leadership raised $2004 for the women United Way of Psi Deuteron. We Greater Lafayette and had two sisters participate in over 2400 volunteer hours as a class that had a curriculum focused on increasing Greek involvement in service and leadership on campuschapter. This class is open to all members of We were awarded the Greek community Gracious Living and helped Psi Deuteron to learn about new ways to integrate House Board awards at the curriculum into our chapter goals. We also were thrilled to have two members of Kappa Kappa Gamma elected to Panhellenic Council in November National Convention during the summer of 201420218. Having two member of Panhellenic Council in our house increased our responsibility to the Greek community We welcomed and in turn helped us to increase turn out to Greek service events initiated 44 new members in the community like "Collegetown Clean Up" and "Day of Demeter."Psi Deuteron has also kept busy through fall - our philanthropy workbiggest pledge class to date. We have continued our partnership with Caroline Elementary. This program gives sisters the opportunity to give back to the Ithaca community by tutoring and mentoring children. Psi Deuteron also continues are looking forward to help sponsor Relay for Life and GoPink! at Cornell. These event increase awareness and support for cancer on campusan even more successful 2019.

Psi Deuteron has Purdue University is ever changing, just like the world around us, and so is our chapter. We believe our chapter's overall nature had many successes a big shift this past year, and as we are eager began to see the changes that 2016 brings focus more on mental health in our chapter by adding a zen room to our home and electing a few chaptermembers as confidants that other members can reach out to in case they might need help.

==Highlights of 20192020==Chapter SummarySummarize the previous calendar year, scholarships, group honors/awards, Convention awards, traditions, special events, philanthropic involvement, chapter goals, and how your chapter operations changed because of COVID-19 (e.g., how did it affect recruitment, initiation, etc. Were events/activities held virtually? Due to COVID-19 and the different circumstances, our Gamma Delta chapter had a very different year. However, these changes did not stop our chapter from coming together, making our sisterhood stronger than ever. This year, Gamma Delta won the Sally Moore Nitschke Lifelong Education Award. In addition to that, myself along with our Vice President of Organization were awarded academic scholarships from Kappa. Although we could not be at convention this year, we were fortunate enough to watch different sessions virtually. Even though the spring semester of 2020 ended early, we were still able to fit in a few exciting events. In February, our President, Vice President Standards, and Marshal were able to visit Butler University and have one our new members initiated there because she was unable to attend our initiation ceremony in the fall. Their chapter was extremely welcoming and helpful and it was great to experience another chapter’s initiation ceremony. We also had our Spring Spontaneous dance which was a Valentine’s Day themed called “Kappa Krush” in February. This was a fun and bonding event organized by our Event Chairmen which ended up being our last in person event of the year. After our school, Purdue University made the decision to hold the rest of the semester online, we made sure to still hold virtual chapter council and whole chapter meetings weekly. We were extremely lucky to still have our Kappa Leadership Consultant meet with our chapter council virtually both one-on-one with each member and with the council as a whole. She was helpful and gave amazing advice as we approached a year of uncertainty and newness due to the virus. Before the year ended, our Education Chairman made sure to read senior spotlights at chapter, and had us write letters to the seniors. Our Public Relations Chairman posted about each senior, their favorite memory of Kappa, and what their plans for the future were. As the next school year started, several changes were made to the Kappa house because of the circumstances. Our Treasurer worked with Kappa and parents to change the price of bills according to the new changes. We made sure to follow CDC guidelines by making sure everyone socially distanced and wore masks when not in their rooms. Our house chairman worked hard at re-doing room placements to make sure rooms did not contain too many girls and changed one of our study rooms into a quarantine room for girls that needed to stay there. Our kitchen was changed from having buffet style to ordering food and picking it up. Members who did not live in the house and guests were not permitted into the house. As the recruitment process started, we prepared for its entirety to be virtual. Our Recruitment Chairman worked extremely hard at teaching the chapter how the process would be and held several meetings explaining and doing run-throughs. Recruitment was held over zoom and involved breakout rooms so our sisters could talk to the Potential New Members one-on-one. Although the process was very different, we made sure to include videos our sisters and our house. Our Public Relations Chairman posted daily about Kappa and created room tour videos since the PNM’s were not able to visit the house. One of our sisters created her our mask business and made Kappa masks to all of our sisters to wear during this time and to class to promote safety and show our Kappa pride. We are so lucky to have gotten an amazing group of 40 New Members. Our New Member Chairman held a virtual Bid Day with the theme of “Falling in Love with Kappa”. She made sure to give exciting facts about our house and used breakout rooms so we could talk to the New Members virtually. Our New Member Chairman, held several virtual meetings with the New Members to guide them through their trainings. As the year went on and amidst the craziness, our goal as a Chapter Council was to keep our sisters safe, informed, and still promote sisterhood as much as we could. Our Standards Chairman held several virtual sisterhood events to boost morale and promote sisterhood. One of the most popular events she had was a pumpkin decorating contest for girls to decorate socially distanced in and outside of the house, and then our Public Relations Chairman posted the pumpkins on the Kappa Instagram for people to vote. The winners received Halloween goodie bags. Our House Chairman also planned fun events throughout the year including her creation of the owl scavenger hunt. She placed tiny owls around the house and gave clever Kappa riddles about their locations. She gave Kappa gear and prizes to the girls who found them. Our Events Chairman also planned different themed chapter meetings which caused our sisters to dress according to theme and keep their camera on the entire meeting. Our Vice President of Academics also implemented a new resource called the “Virtual Binder Room”. This resource contains different folders of note, study tips, quizzlets, past quizzes, and any other helpful study materials for all different majors. She created this so we can add any virtual academic materials we have to share with one another to help us study better. Our philanthropy looked very different this year as well. Since we were not able to have an in-person philanthropy event, our Philanthropy Chairman created a “Skip-A-Meal”. She partnered with our campus Chipotle and for anyone who purchased a meal on October 27 and mentioned Kappa, 33% of their meal would go towards our fundraiser. She also incorporated Crowd Change which is a virtual fundraiser. Her goal was for each girl to raise $50 to meet our goal. This was a great success and we were able to raise$3,032.62. Throughout the year, I as the Marshal gave Kappa Fun Facts and suggested several Kappa virtual webinars and resources that our sisters could take advantage of. As initiation approached, our overnight, three part ceremony was transformed into the 40 minute virtual ceremony. I learned from several trainings on how to conduct this and received amazing help from our Ritual and History Specialist. I made sure to still hold an Inspiration Week but modified it to be virtual. This consisted of assigning girls new members to text everyday with their favorite quote, song, a Starbucks gift card, or simply a nice message to brighten their day. I also had the girls write letters to the New Members and was still able to bring the sanitized letters and flowers to the new Initiates. The initiation ceremony was still as special and meaningful with all the ritual components. Several alumni were able to attend and it went very well. After the ceremony, the new initiate’s big sisters dropped off “Kappa Kristmas” gifts to their dorms in a socially distanced manner. Throughout the year, our Panhellenic Delegate and Risk Chairman made sure to keep us updated and informed with new rules and safety tips which helped us tremendously. Our President, Bella Brown truly was amazing this term and was constantly making sure our sisters were safe and informed and made sure everything ran as smoothly as it could. She handled all the uncertainty and new changes with grace and kept a positive attitude which reflected on the entire chapter. We are so thankful for all her guidance amongst this crazy year.

This past calendar year Chapter PhilanthropyWhat organization does the chapter support? Our chapter splits our chapter made a commitment fundraising three ways. We give 1/3 to Reading is Fundamental, 1/3 to United Way, and 1/3 to further understand the rituals and history of Kappa Kappa Gamma. We have increased the amount of activities that support this commitment, such as song practices, while also upholding the traditions of the sorority. We have also continued traditions important within our chapter specifically, such as philanthropic involvementsfoundation.

Why did the chapter choose this organization? We were not only engaged within our chapter, but also among the greater Cornell communitychose this because all organizations align with Kappa’s values. Our chapter We have also enjoys being involved in been donating to these organizations for years so we wanted to continue the local Ithaca community as welltradition.

While Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion How did your chapter include diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in your programming this year? (e.g., adding a DEI officer, philanthropy events, social media awareness campaign chapter training, etc.). This year, we spent a lot of time focusing on diversity, equality, and inclusion. When our campus culture LC visited “virtually” she explained to the entire Chapter Council how important it is always changing, our chapter always strives and gave us several helpful resources to maintain share with the same values rest of Kappa Kappa Gamma. No matter what is happening on campus, our chapter is reliable . Our Public Relations Chairman was very active in its kindnessposting about diversity and equality, maturityespecially during the BLM movement. As school started, we had a programming night about this and strengthmade sure to keep our sisters informed and supplied with resources on how to be more inclusive especially with the current events. While Our Recruitment Chairman also held a meeting about this before recruitment started to emphasis the importance and how we all have diverse interests and backgrounds, at could incorporate this into our core, our chapter all holds similar values and moralsone-on-one conversations with the Potential New Members.

The two main philanthropic organizations that our Sesquicentennial CelebrationHow did your chapter supports is the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation and Reading is Fundamentalcelebrate Kappa’s 150th anniversary? Share what you have done this year. Our chapter chose these organizations because, like other Kappa chaptersFor this incredibly special year, we are encouraged made sure to donate to themcelebrate it the best way we could. Since Our Education Chairman brought Kappa goodies for the house on the day of and gave an amazing speech about Kappa during chapter on the values week of these organizations strongly align with the values anniversary. I gave Kappa fun facts every week of chapter to help educate our sisters even more about our chapterspecial fratnerity and had every girl tune into Kappa’s live Sesquicentennial Founder’s Day Celebration. Our Public Relations Chairman posted several pictures and facts about Kappa, we have continued to be inspired to volunteer with other organizationsour house transformation, including but not limited to and alumni throughout the Caroline Elementary school in our local communityyears.

During our last Founder’s DayPhotographsAre there any interesting photos from this year to share? e.g., our school was on break. While we could not screen shots of virtual meetings, pictures of chapter events that followed all be togetherpublic health guidelines (mask wearing, physical distancing, etc), we emphasized the importance pictures of Kappa’s history and the day through messages to the chaptermasks, drive-thru vid days, and in person once we were all togetheretc.

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==Highlights of 2020:2021==During the past year, the Gamma Delta Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma has been extremely busy and hardworking. Our chapter has grown, experienced change, and found new ways to implement our values. From our chapter we had sixteen members lead our chapter council, each member brought new creative ideas and boosted morale. The first semester of our chapter council term was faced with more precautions and obstacles due to the pandemic compared to the second semester. With events being canceled, it was difficult at times to implement a form of normalcy. Throughout the months of January, February, March, and April the majority of events were held virtual. The events held virtually were chapter meetings, sisterhood events, panhellenic respect events, and webinars. With living in the house, members wore masks throughout common areas and were tested bi-weekly. Meals were served from house staff and gatherings for meals in the kitchen were limited. No social formality events took place throughout the first semester, but we were able to have a philanthropic event. Typically our chapter hosts a “Wing Night” to raise money at the house, however with the pandemic we hosted the fundraiser at a local Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant on campus. Philanthropic events on Purdue’s campus were limited due to social distancing guidelines, a majority of them were held virtually. We had members from different pledge classes attend other organization’s philanthropic events. With members attending other organization’s philanthropic events we were able to gain awareness.

Our As a chapter was council we developed different types of goals, some of the goals included maintaining engagement and improving communication. Some ways we were able to conduct major stay involved on campus and show support to other organizations was through attending philanthropic eventsand respect events sponsored from Purdue’s Panhellenic Community. Respect events varied in topics of discussion from sexual assualt, inclusion, such as initiation equity, and health advocation. Members from our chapter would attend these events to gain information and recruitmentincrease awareness for mental health, wellness, before COVIDsexual well-19being, racial/cultural awareness, and respect. NeverthelessDuring chapter meetings, the pandemic impacted our chapter’s experience tremendouslymembers would share tips and information they learned. Without being able to meet in person, chapters looked As a lot different. Women in our chapter took to planning events virtually (council and chapter we will be conducting virtual recruitment early next semester)improved communication by extending the duration of meeting times. While By extending the time, we were virtual, Psi Deuteron was still able to conduct discuss more topics, ideas, and any obstacles. Since the pandemic, our chapter has faced challenges of providing some sort of our typical eventsnormalcy. For instanceAs a chapter, we held virtual fundraisers on were able to maintain living in the sorority house by following social media for our philanthropydistancing guidelines and hosting chapter meetings through zoom. Most importantlyWith events being canceled, the women of our chapter were still connectedfocused on growing sisterhood. Our bond of sisterhood strengthened through being quarantined together. Instead of having a negative approach, even though we were physically separatedmembers had a positive approach and looked to benefit from the situation.

The two main philanthropic organizations that For the first semester of the school year, our chapter supports is supported the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation and local organization of Reading is Fundamental. Our chapter chose these Some ways members were able to show support was through volunteering at the elementary school, Murdock Elementary in Lafayette, and by donating books. With the pandemic, volunteering and working with the students was not an option, instead members decided to donate books. Chapter members encouraged other organizations becauseto donate books, by donating books we were able to educate younger members in our local community. For the second semester, like other Kappa chaptersthe chapter was able to support Kappa’s philanthropy by hosting a “Kolor Run, ” the event was a 5k run around Purdue’s campus. As a chapter we are encouraged were able to donate raise over $12,000 for Mental Health America. A representative from Mental Health America was able to themattend a chapter meeting and talk about the awareness for mental health. Since Chapter members decided on the values organization of these organizations strongly align Mental Health America for the proceeds to be donated. Moving forward with the values philanthropic events, as a chapter we are hoping to spread more awareness of mental health and host an event in person where members from campus can attend. Our chapter included diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in our programming this year by appointing a DEI officer. The person who was appointed as a DEI officer held a position on chapter council as Panhellenic Delegate. The communication was efficient because she was able to communicate events and educational programs happening on campus to our chapter. We also hosted events virtually educating members on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Members were required to attend chapter training for DEI and we have continued posted on social media to be inspired raise awareness. As a chapter council we delegated younger members to volunteer with other organizationsa committee of diversity, equity, and inclusion education. Moving forward as a chapter, including but not limited we will continue to the Caroline Elementary school in our local communityattend events, spread awareness, and have open communication.

In response to the events of summer 2020Chapter operations did not change too drastically, our chapter examined our diversityhowever finding normalcy at times was a struggle. The recruitment process was split between virtual and in-person, equity, and inclusion initiatives. While as a house we took smallwere able to host an in-scale measures to address issues person work week. During the time of equity, such as posting on social media, our chapter wanted work week we were able to implement more long termdiscuss the recruitment process, meaningful changes. Through formal learn chants and informal conversationssongs, our chapter emphasized and discuss the importance of being an inclusive chapterour values. When recruitment rounds were in-person at the house all members wore masks and social distanced. We even brought During the wider Cornell community into our conversations to see what last two months of the semester, we could do better. While these conversations were difficult able to have, they serve as a small step initiate 43 members in the right direction-person. We will continue to have these discussionsWith initiation ceremonies being held in-person, every person in attendance wore a mask and social distance guidelines were implemented. For members living-in , the coming yearsVice President of Organizations, they will mobilize into more direct action. Our chapter is looking forward to trainings and other hosted sisterhood events that will make us more conscientious members of trivia, pumpkin decorating, and sign making for our communityphilanthropic event.

While As a chapter council and chapter, we were apart because of COVID-19grew in communication, education, we were still able and worked to reflect on the importance of Kappa’s 150th anniversaryhandle change. These past few years, the Psi Deuteron Our chapter has taken the initiative members worked hard to truly value our traditions. On this anniversaryadapt to change, we all took the time to reflect on the significance of this day and what Kappa means to ushave open discussions about current events.[[File:GD Recruitment.png|thumb|Recruitment2021]][[File:GD Recruitment2.png|thumb|recruitment2]][[File:GD Bid DAY.png|thumb|BidDay1]][[File:GDBid Day2.png|thumb|New Members]][[File:GD GameDAy.png|thumb|Game Day 2021]][[File:GDGAmeDay2.png|thumb|GameDay22021]][[File:GDBarnDance.png|thumb|BarnDance2021]]