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Dream House
10/1/2020 - Baton Rouge - Baton Rouge
Chapter: LSU - Delta Iota, Alabama - Gamma Pi
Cindy Morgan Stewart, LSU, joined Kappa in 1979 and lived in the chapter house. It’s one of her fondest memories and where she built a sisterhood that remains with her today. Fast forward to 2015, and Cindy drew upon the love she had for living in the house when she was asked to join the House Board at Delta Iota Chapter, LSU. She agreed — if she could do some landscaping and fixing up. One of two licensed architects on the House Board, Cindy soon recognized that the house, built in the 50s, needed some work.
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Kappa Scholar | Olivia Ware
8/31/2020 - Whitman - Gamma Gamma -
I am a 2020 medical school graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C. I am originally from Seattle and graduated from Whitman College where I am a proud member of Gamma Gamma Chapter. I would like to express my most sincere gratitude and appreciation for your financial support. You have helped me become an astute clinician, helped train me to take care of patients, and are responsible for part of my medical degree! I cannot thank you enough for this gift. Because of you, I will graduate with less student loan debt.
The Alumna Initiation Process
8/1/2020
We are so excited that you are interested in membership within our organization. If you are genuine, uplifting and determined to make positive change in your community, we want to meet you!
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Bold Beginnings
1/6/2020 - Monmouth - Alpha Deuteron -
“On a little wooden bridge spanning a small stream that flows through the northeastern corner of the campus, two college girls one day held a schoolgirls’ conversation out of which grew the Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity.” That’s how Thomas H. McMichael, president of Monmouth College from 1903–36, described Kappa’s earliest days. It was the late 1860s and that now-famous conversation between Mary Louise “Lou” Bennett and Hannah Jennette “Jennie” Boyd was more than a passing fancy. It was the start of something big.
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