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with the Honor Key Award, and Natasha Gamma Delta Gamma Theta
Tepley received Student Leader of the U of South Alabama U of South Florida
Quarter last fall quarter. We won best kick line, best dance, best Our annual philanthropy Kickin’ It,
house decorations, and were awarded a kickball tournament, raised over
Epsilon Gamma $300 towards our philanthropy along $8,000 for the arthritis research, and we
U of Northern Colorado with first place overall in Sigma Chi’s supported our troops overseas with
Epsilon Gamma held numerous Derby Days. Our Strike Out Arthritis! care packages and letters with our
sisterhood events including retreats, annual softball tournament was a big newest philanthropy, Sisters for Soldiers.
bonding, and Mary Kay party events. The success, and we gave out five bids for We are also proud to have initiated 18
chapter also placed in the silver rankings informal spring recruitment. new sisters after our first Sisterhood
for Greek Awards out of all Greek Week - a week filled with fun activities, a
organizations on campus. Gamma Phi sisterhood retreat, and finally Initiation.
Seton Hall U
Epsilon Omega In our chapter’s first formal recruitment Iota
Eastern Kentucky U this spring, we gained 37 beautiful new U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Epsilon Omega was honored with the members. Our 109 members are already Iota Chapter has had a very busy start
following campus awards: Best in Grades, involved on campus. We held a feminine to spring semester. At Panhellenic’s
Best New Member Grades, Overall products drive to help women’s Greek Oscars, we won second place in
Scholarship Award, Risk Management, homeless shelters and have supported Outstanding Risk Management. We are
Chapter Operations, and Membership many other organizations’ philanthropies very proud of our 2014 Vice President
Intake and Recruitment. We also placed regularly. We participated in events of Standards, Mariellen Veach, and the
third in GreekSing, and our annual like Delta Phi Epsilon’s ANAD week, standards committee! We have also had
sorority and fraternity dance competition supporting the Seton Hall Men’s team some very fun events such as our spring
and philanthropy event, LipSync, raised before the Greek Basketball game, and semiformal, a super bowl watching
over $2,000 for juvenile arthritis and was Greek Week. Our first sisterhood retreat party, pottery making, and a sisterhood
the highest attended philanthropy event was a fun camping trip! photo shoot.
on campus.
Kappa Alpha (Indiana State U)
Epsilon Sigma
Quincy U
We held our annual Mr. GQ male
pageant in March. This year’s theme was
Dreams Do Come True. The pageant
allowed for male students to enter
a competition with different rounds
such as formal round, MacGyver round,
question round, and character round
where the boys and their escorts dressed
like fairytale characters of their choosing.

Gamma
U of Maine
As a chapter, Gamma won the Natalie
Bayliss Sorority of the Year Award and
the Sorority Academic Excellence Award.
Our chapter president, Emily Knipp, won
Chapter President of the Year along with
our Chapter Adviser, Brianna Ecker, who
won Advisor of the Year. In addition
to the Greek awards we received,
we have also won several intramural
championships including: dodge ball,
capture the flag, broomball, kickball,
flag football, and field hockey. Our Mr.
Fraternity Strike Out Arthritis! event
successfully raised a total of $2,422.78.

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