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− | [[Image: | + | The Eta Kappa Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma became the newest national sorority on campus when it was installed on March 4, 2007. |
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+ | The chapter currently has 34 members. | ||
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+ | [[Image:Kappa.jpg|thumb|510px|Kappas at Spring Formal 2007]] | ||
== History == | == History == | ||
− | Kappa Kappa Gamma | + | Kappa Kappa Gamma was founded October 13, 1870, at [[Monmouth College]], [[Illinois]]. |
− | The founding members of Kappa Kappa Gamma were Hannah Jeannette Boyd, Mary Moore Stewart (Nelson, Field), Anna Elizabeth Willits (Pattee), Mary Louise Bennett (Boyd), Martha Louisa Stevenson (Miller), Susan Burley Walker (Vincent). As collegiate at Monmouth College, they were determined to form a greek letter organization for women. Founders Minnie Stewart, Jeannette Boyd, and Louise Bennett first met around 1869-1870 in the Amateurs des Belles Lettres Hall, a literary society of which the women were active members when they first decided to form a new society<ref>William Urban et al, ''Monmouth College, a history through its fifth quarter century''. Monmouth College, 1979</ref>. They determined that nothing short of a | + | The founding members of Kappa Kappa Gamma were Hannah Jeannette Boyd, Mary Moore Stewart (Nelson, Field), Anna Elizabeth Willits (Pattee), Mary Louise Bennett (Boyd), Martha Louisa Stevenson (Miller), Susan Burley Walker (Vincent). As collegiate at Monmouth College, they were determined to form a greek letter organization for women. Founders Minnie Stewart, Jeannette Boyd, and Louise Bennett first met around 1869-1870 in the Amateurs des Belles Lettres Hall, a literary society of which the women were active members when they first decided to form a new society<ref>William Urban et al, ''Monmouth College, a history through its fifth quarter century''. Monmouth College, 1979</ref>. They determined that nothing short of a greek letter fraternity, equal to men’s fraternities, would satisfy them. Since chapel exercises were required for all students, the founding members announced the formation of the new group by wearing their golden key pins to the Chapel service on October, 13, 1870; hanging back so that they would have to sit in front after the other students were seated. |
==Symbols== | ==Symbols== | ||
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==Preamble== | ==Preamble== | ||
We, believing a closer union in the bonds of friendship to be for our mutual benefit, appreciating the advantages to be derived from a secret fraternity, and feeling that in union there is strength, hereby form ourselves into an association for the development of nobler qualities of the mind and finer feelings of the heart, and for mutual helpfulness in the attainment of individual and social excellence. (The Preamble remains much as it was written in 1892.) | We, believing a closer union in the bonds of friendship to be for our mutual benefit, appreciating the advantages to be derived from a secret fraternity, and feeling that in union there is strength, hereby form ourselves into an association for the development of nobler qualities of the mind and finer feelings of the heart, and for mutual helpfulness in the attainment of individual and social excellence. (The Preamble remains much as it was written in 1892.) | ||
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[[Category:Fraternities and sororities]] | [[Category:Fraternities and sororities]] |