Changes
→Highlights of the 1980s:
Rush was postponed in 1984 due to the cold holiday season. Many sororities were left with no heat and broken pipes, including the Delta Chapter. To compensate for the misfortune, the Chapter re-vamped their skit to "KKG Putting on the Ritz." Return percentages increased every party and rush turned out to be a great success.
January 1986, Delta chapter received a gift of $20,000 from Bernice Byrum Kimball to establish the Byrum Scholarship Fund.
Some notable individual achievements of chapter members from the mid 1980's:
* 1987 Cari Conway received the Connie Clifton Memorial Scholarship which is based upon attitude, campus, and chapter involvement.
* 1987 Courtney Stevens was awarded the Beryl Showers Holland Award for her service to Kappa from pledgeship through senior year.
* Gretchen Doninger was a quarter-finalist at the ITCA/Rolex Midwest Tennis Championships and finished the year ranked No. 1 singles in the Midwest.
Delta added 38 new members in the beginning of 1989, bringing the chapter membership to over 100 women. Chapter activities in 1989 included participating in I.U. Sing, the mini 500 tricycle race, the women’s 500 bike race and intramurals. Delta also held two formal scholarship dinners. The 1989 chapter goal was “Appreciation + Involvement = Kappa Sisterhood”. Involvement was evident as chapter members belonged to many campus organizations, such as the Student Athletic Board, Panhellenic, Singing Hoosiers, IU Ballet Theatre, ROTC and the Student Alumni Council.
