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May CIn the infancy of Kappa Kappa Gamma, Fraternity affairs were handled with extraordinary capability by a succession of Fraternity Presidents and Councils composed of Kappas in their early twenties, many of whom were still in school. Today, Presidents and their Councils are alumnae who serve as trustees for 141 chapters and more than 250 alumnae associations, with a membership of more than 287,000. Whiting WestermannThe Fraternity Council members' responsibilities include ensuring support, guidance and leadership training for undergraduate and alumnae; providing programming for women supporting women; supervising the financial affairs of the Fraternity; overseeing the operation of Fraternity Headquarters; and most importantly, Sigma Chaptermaintaining the standards and values expressed in the purposes on which the Fraternity was founded. ''History 2000, NebraskaKappa Kappa Gamma Through the Years''

May C== '''1870 - 1880''' ==<table><tr><td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Grand Chapter Presidents|Image= [[File:GrandSeal. Whiting Westermann is the only Kappa to have served three terms as president, first as jpg|100px|link=Grand_Chapter_Presidents|Grand President from 1902-1904, and next as its first National President from1922-1924 and 1924Chapter Presidents]]|Date= 1870-1926.* Her name is on the charters of eight chapters and on the membership certificates of approximately 3,000 Kappas.1880}}</td>

May was a sweet== '''1881 -faced woman with a commanding presence who embodied the ideals of Kappa in courage, mentality, honesty and vision – and she had a head for detail1900''' ==<table><tr><td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Tade Hartsuff Kuhns|Image= [[File:TadeHartsuffKuhns.jpeg|100px|link=Tade_Hartsuff_Kuhns|Tade Hartsuff Kuhns]]|Date= 1881-1884}}</td>

May attended her first Convention as a speaker in 1896 and then served as assistant Marshal in 1898, where she was appointed deputy to the Grand Treasurer. She held that office until the 1900 Convention in Columbus, Ohio, when she was elected Grand Secretary. When the Grand Council met in July 1901 in Buffalo, N.Y., Jean Penfield was ill, leaving May to preside over private business sessions at which the Beta Beta debacle was discussed<td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Charlotte Barrell Ware|Image= [[File:CharlotteBarrellWare.jpg|90px|link=Charlotte_Barrell_Ware|Charlotte Barrell Ware]]|Date= 1884-1888}}</td>

The following year she was elected Grand President and married (she later raised a son). As President, she accepted the gift of a gavel carved from a stairway at Monmouth’s Old Main, first used at the 1928 Convention. The devastating Fraternity Headquarters fire in 1965 damaged the Monmouth gavel. It was replaced at Convention by the Westermann gavel, first given in 1904 to Mary Whiting Westermann by her Council, and then left to the Fraternity. At the end of her term, she was appointed Historian but resigned in 1905 and did no Kappa work for 14 years<td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Kate Bird Cross|Image= [[File:KateBirdCross.jpg|100px|link=Kate_Bird_Cross|Kate Bird Cross]]|Date= 1888-1890}}</td>

In 1918, however, the one-time adjunct professor and lover of English literature resumed her Kappa service as Custodian of the Badge<td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Lucy Wight Allan|Image = [[File:Lucy Wight Allan.** As such she attended the 1920 Convention, where she was unanimously elected National President. During the historic twojpg|100px|link=Lucy_Wight_Allan|Lucy Wight Allan]]|Date= 1890-terms that followed, she served as 1923 delegate to the National Panhellenic Congress (now known as Conference) in Boston at a time when opposition to fraternities was gathering at a number of universities.1892}}</td>

At the end of what was her third term, in 1924, Kappa had 51 chapters, a huge number for Council members to visit, and May pressed for further development of province government. In 1925, the resignation of the Historian was accepted with regret and Council took on the daunting task of publishing a history </tr></table><table><tr><td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Emily Bright Burnham|Image = [[File:Emily_Bright_Burnham.jpg|100px|link=Emily_Bright_Burnham|Emily Bright Burnham]]|Date= 1892-1894}}</td>

May assumed this task and at the same time presided over revising, printing and distributing the Bylaws and Standing Rules<td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Katharine Lucinda Sharp|Image = [[File:Katharine_Lucinda_Sharp. She spent hours helping verify rolls for the Catalogue and oversaw production of a pamphlet promoting the benefits of college fraternities, to be used as a continuous, “asjpg|100px|link=Katharine_Lucinda_Sharp|Katharine Lucinda Sharp]]|Date= 1894-needed” balance to anti-fraternity sentiment. The re-establishment of Rho Chapter, Ohio Wesleyan, was a highlight of 1925.1896}}</td>

In 1926, May offered to act as editor rather than author of the history, acknowledging the task of authorship too difficult on top of her other duties<td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Bertha Richmond Chevalier|Image = [[File:Bertha_Richmond_Chevalier.jpg|100px|link=Bertha_Richmond_Chevalier|Bertha Richmond Chevalier]]|Date= 1896-1900}}</td>

Her efforts and loyalty were recognized with the presentation of the Westermann Cup, now known as the Efficiency Award<td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Eliza Jean Nelson Penfield|Image = [[File:Eliza_Jean_Nelson_Penfield. The retired cup is engraved, “To own the cup a chapter must have served the Fraternity in a small measure as our Nation President has – meeting its demands untiringly, unselfishly, unceasingly.”jpg|100px|link=Eliza_Jean_Nelson_Penfield|Eliza Jean Nelson Penfield]]|Date= 1900-1902}}</td>

* There were only two National Presidents, May Whiting Westermann and Georgia Hayden Lloyd<table><tr><td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Mary Griffith Canby|Image = [[File:Mary_Griffith_Canby.jpg|100px|link=Mary_Griffith_Canby|Mary Griffith Canby]]|Date= 1906-Jones, before the designation Grand was used again. It was then eliminated in the 1940 revision of the Bylaws1908}}</td><td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Edith Stoner Robinson|Image = [[File:Edith_Stoner_Robinson.jpg|100px|link=Edith_Stoner_Robinson|Edith Stoner Robinson]]|Date= 1908-1910}}</td>

** The 1908 General Convention voted to add this position for the protection of the badge </tr></table> == '''1910 - 1920''' ==<table><tr> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Florence Burton Roth|Image = [[File:Florence_Burton_Roth. The Custodian perfected an order form and system to order badgesjpg|100px|link=Florence_Burton_Roth|Florence Burton Roth]]|Date= 1910-1912}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Eva Powell|Image = [[File:Eva_Powell. She received all badge orders, then countersigned and recorded each orderjpg|100px|link=Eva_Powell|Eva Powell]]|Date= 1912-1916}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Lydia Voris Kolbe|Image = [[File:Lydia_Voris_Kolbe. These orders were then forwarded to the official jewelersjpg|100px|link=Lydia_Voris_Kolbe|Lydia Voris Kolbe]]|Date= 1916-1920}}</td> </tr></table> == '''1920 - 1930''' ==<table><tr> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Sarah Harris Rowe|Image = [[File:Sarah_Harris_Rowe. There were three Custodians of the Badge, George Challoner (Tracy), Wisconsin, Cleora Wheeler, Minnesota and jpg|100px|link=Sarah_Harris_Rowe|Sarah Harris Rowe]]|Date= 1920-1922}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= May Cynthia Whiting Westermann|Image = [[File:May_Whiting_Westermann. In jpg|100px|link=May_Cynthia_Whiting_Westermann|May Cynthia Whiting Westermann]]|Date= 1922, this responsibility was moved to the Central Office -1926}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Georgia Hayden Lloyd-Jones|Image = [[File:Georgia_Hayden_Lloyd-Jones.jpg|100px|link=Georgia_Hayden_Lloyd-Jones|Georgia Hayden Lloyd-Jones]]|Date= 1926-1930}}</td>  </tr></table> == '''1930 - 1940''' ==<table><tr> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Florence Tomlinson Meyers Wallace|Image = [[File:Florence_Tomlinson_Meyers_Wallace.jpg|100px|link=Florence_Tomlinson_Meyers_Wallace|Florence Tomlinson Meyers Wallace]]|Date= 1930}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Alice Tillotson Barney|Image = [[File:Alice_Tillotson_Barney.jpg|100px|link=Alice_Tillotson_Barney|Alice Tillotson Barney]]|Date= 1930-1933}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Eleanor V.V. Bennet|Image = [[File:Eleanor_Bennet.jpg|100px|link=Eleanor_V.V._Bennet|Eleanor V.V. Bennet]]|Date= 1933-1935}}</td>   </tr></table> <table><tr><td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Helen Snyder Andres Steiner|Image = [[File:Helen_Steiner.jpg|100px|link=Helen_Snyder_Andres_Steiner|Helen Snyder Andres Steiner]]|Date= 1935-1936}}</td><td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Rheva Ott Shryock|Image = [[File:Rheva_Ott_Shryock.jpg|100px|link=Rheva_Ott_Shryock|Rheva Ott Shryock]]|Date= 1936-1940}}</td>  </tr></table> == '''1940 - 1950''' ==<table><tr> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Elizabeth Bogert Schofield|Image = [[File:Elizabeth_Bogert_Schofield.jpg|100px|link=Elizabeth_Bogert_Schofield|Elizabeth Bogert Schofield]]|Date= 1940-1944}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Ruth Kadel Seacrest|Image = [[File:Ruth_Kadel_seacrest.jpg|100px|link=Ruth_Kadel_Seacrest|Ruth Kadel Seacrest]]|Date= 1944-1948}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Helena Flinn Ege|Image = [[File:Helena_Flinn_Ege.jpg|100px|link=Helena_Flinn_Ege|Helena Flinn Ege]]|Date= 1948-1952}}</td>  </tr></table> == '''1950 - 1960''' ==<table><tr> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Edith Reese Crabtree|Image = [[File:Edith_Reese_Crabtree.jpg|100px|link=Edith_Reese_Crabtree|Edith Reese Crabtree]]|Date= 1952-1956}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Eleanore Goodridge Campbell|Image = [[File:Eleanore_Goodridge_Campbell.jpg|100px|link=Eleanore_Goodridge_Campbell|Eleanore Goodridge Campbell]]|Date= 1956-1960}}</td>  </tr></table> == '''1960 - 1970''' ==<table><tr> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Mary Turner Whitney|Image = [[File:Mary_Turner_Whitney.jpg|100px|link=Mary_Turner_Whitney|Mary Turner Whitney]]|Date= 1960-1964}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Frances Fatout Alexander|Image = [[File:Frances_Fatout_Alexander.jpg|100px|link=Frances_Fatout_Alexander|Frances Fatout Alexander]]|Date= 1964-1968}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Louise Little Barbeck|Image = [[File:Louise_Little_Barbeck.jpg|100px|link=Louise_Little_Barbeck|Louise Little Barbeck]]|Date= 1968-1972}}</td>  </tr></table> == '''1970 - 1980''' ==<table><tr> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Marian Schroeder Graham|Image = [[File:Marian_Schroeder_Graham.jpg|100px|link=Marian_Schroeder_Graham|Marian Schroeder Graham]]|Date= 1972-1976}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Jean Hess Wells|Image = [[File:Jean_Hess_Wells.jpg|100px|link=Jean_Hess_Wells|Jean Hess Wells]]|Date= 1976-1980}}</td>  </tr></table> == '''1980 - 1990''' ==<table><tr> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Sally Moore Nitschke|Image = [[File:Sally_Moore_Nitschke.jpg|100px|link=Sally_Moore_Nitschke|Sally Moore Nitschke]]|Date= 1980-1984}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Marian Klingbeil Williams|Image = [[File:Marian_Klingbeil_Williams.jpg|100px|link=Marian_Klingbeil_Williams|Marian Klingbeil Williams]]|Date= 1984-1988}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Kay Smith Larson|Image = [[File:Kay_Smith_Larson.jpg|100px|link=Kay_Smith_Larson|Kay Smith Larson]]|Date= 1988-1992}}</td>  </tr></table> == '''1990 - 2000''' ==<table><tr> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Juliana (Fraternity HeadquartersJ.J.)Fraser Wales|Image = [[File:Juliana_Fraser_Wales.jpg|100px|link=Juliana_Fraser_Wales|Juliana Fraser Wales]]|Date= 1992-1996}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Cathy Thompson Carswell|Image = [[File:Cathy_Thompson_Carswell.jpg|100px|link=Cathy_Thompson_Carswell|Cathy Thompson Carswell]]|Date= 1996-2000}}</td>  </tr></table> == '''2000 - 2010''' ==<table><tr> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Ann Stafford Truesdell|Image = [[File:Truesdell.jpg|100px|link=Ann_Stafford_Truesdell|Ann Stafford Truesdell]]|Date= 2000-2004}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Priscilla Murphy Gerde|Image = [[File:Priscilla_Murphy_Gerde.jpg|100px|link=Priscilla_Murphy_Gerde|Priscilla Murphy Gerde]]|Date= 2004-2006}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Denise Marie Rugani|Image = [[File:Denise_Marie_Rugani.jpg|100px|link=Denise_Marie_Rugani|Denise Marie Rugani]]|Date= 2006-2010}}</td>  </tr></table> == '''2010 - 2022''' ==<table><tr> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Julie Marine Leshay|Image = [[File:Julie_Marine_Leshay.jpg|100px|link=Julie_Marine_Leshay|Julie Marine Leshay]]|Date= 2010-2014}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Beth Uphoff Black|Image = [[File:Beth_Black.jpg|100px|link=Beth_Uphoff_Black|Beth Uphoff Black]]|Date= 2014 - 2018}}</td> <td>{{Infobox Historically Speaking|Name= Gail Simpson Owen|Image = [[File:Gail_Owen_President.jpg|100px|link=Gail_Simpson_Owen|Gail Simpson Owen]]|Date= 2018 - 2022}}</td> </tr></table>