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THE KEY VOL 134 NO 2 SUMMER 2017.Pdf Summer 2017 KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA PAGE 20 Now You See Me, Now You Don’t Why tween girls want to blend in— and why it’s so dangerous LOOKING BACK One car pileup. Members of Beta Mu Chapter, Colorado, stuffed themselves in this Mercury Lynx. Pictured are Lilli Stammler Almon, Anne Keleher Carter archives kappa and Barry Johnson. We hope the other 1981 four will let us know who they are! SUMMER 2017 ON PAGE 30 When you are a parent of a child with a serious illness, the weight of things usually hits you on the ride home from the doctor’s office. — Melissa Mann DeAngelis Summer 2017, Volume 134, No. 2 FEATURES IN EVERY ISSUE 2 Feedback Today I Am 3 Letter from the Editor B Y VANESSA SCHENCK Tween girls just 4 The Mix wanna blend in, but Summer means sun and 20psychologist JoAnn splashing, but it’s also Deak says we should encourage the height of childhood them to stand out. Now, a new drowning. Keep your organization is giving tweens a crew safe this summer platform to thrive. with these five tips. Curious about caviar? Get Get Art Smart ready to please your palate BY JODI NODING as the Bergstein sisters The stars of Ovation’s decode this classic delicacy. Art Breakers want 26 you to build an art What is made of embossed collection you love whether silver or gold, worn at the your budget is out of this world waist by Victorians and or down to earth. holds the keys to the valu- ables? Find out on Page 19. Until Tessa Can 38 Through the Keyhole BY MELISSA DEANGELIS Susie Matheson’s Scout Rett syndrome is Guide makes local trapping 5-year-old shopping stylishly simple. 30Tessa inside a body she can’t control. She can’t walk 42 In Brief or talk. But it’s not stopping her 47 Make a Note mother from taking up the fight 44 Key Achievements against the genetic disorder. 46 In Memoriam courtesy tia girls; courtesy art tia girls; courtesy courtesy breakers; courtesy melissa deangelis melissa courtesy breakers; COVER: saverio truglia 48 Remix GET INVOLVED WWW.KAPPA.ORG | 1 Feedback Volume 134, No. 2 Summer 2017 Spring 2017 KAPPA KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA GAMMA The Key is the first college women’s fraternity magazine, published continuously since 1882. Editor Kristin Johnson Sangid, Georgia Southern P A G E 2 4 Associate Editor The Kristen Desmond LeFevre, Indiana Deepest Contributing Editors Cut Melisse Campbell, Mississippi Beginning again Katie Mills Giorgio, Drake when marriage ends Rachel Weber Haugo, Iowa State Jodi Noding, Florida Kait Smith Lanthier, Marist Laura Vinci, Kansas Editorial Board Chairman Judy Stewart Ducate, Texas Tech Fraternity Vice President Elizabeth Bailey, Mississippi Executive Director Kari Kittrell Director of Marketing and Communications Ashley Gilbert Moyer, Purdue Marketing Assistant Lauren Every, Ohio State Copy Editor In Real Life Cailin Cooney, Central Florida Design Em Dash I want to thank you for your coverage of real-life issues Printed by Lane Press affecting active members and alumnae. The Key (ISSN 1063-4665) is published by the Kappa Kappa Gamma Frater- nity and Foundation, 530 E. Town St., Over the past couple of the chapter? We may be getting see us lift one another up when Columbus, OH 43215. Printed in the years, I have enjoyed learning older, but 30-plus collective that path comes to an end. United States of America, copyright Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity 2016. about Kappa’s efforts to stop memories can’t all be wrong! — Jessica Whitaker, Subscription price is $3. bullying among adolescent girls, — Elizabeth Grede Georgia Southern POSTMASTER: Send address changes to and been pleased to see financial Bowling, Northwestern The Key P.O. Box 38 advice offered to young women. Bravo! Columbus, OH 43216-0038 The feature on picking up the Editor’s Note: You’re right to I find myself in a position pieces after divorce speaks to trust your memories. Epsilon with nothing more than my Kappa Kappa Gamma Headquarters another issue that many women Omicron, UC Davis, is the phone and today’s mail which P.O. Box 38, Columbus, OH 43216-0038 will face in their post-collegiate correct chapter. Thank you for held The Key. It is one of Phone: 866-554-1870 (866-KKG-1870) years. I look forward to seeing letting us know. the most interesting issues Email Kappa: [email protected] The Key in my mailbox, so I that I can recall. Congrats Email The Key: [email protected] can relive some blue-and-blue Uplifted to the team who assembled To change your address or stop nostalgia while also reading Divorce is still a taboo the content and design! receiving The Key, email kkghq@kkg. journalism pertinent to women’s topic but, sadly, a common —Alison Fox, USC (Calif.) org or call the number above. Please include full name. whole lives. occurrence. I am thankful that —Allison Elliott-Shannon, not only did you normalize Centre relationships ending, but you facebook.com/kappakappagamma showed the proverbial light at facebook.com/thekeymagazine Pyramid Scheme the end of the tunnel. I’ve had Correction twitter.com/kappakappagamma linkedin.com I was a Northwestern a long-term engagement end, in the spring 2017 issue, Keyword: Kappa Kappa Gamma University Kappa from 1972 to and it was some of my sisters Heather Brock was listed as www.kappa.org/bt 1976. We have an email group (long after college days) who Heather Chandish Brock, of over 30 Kappas from the era helped me live and thrive again. Alabama. It should have dan saelinger and none of them recognize any Though never the preferred read Heather Brock, Washington of the faces in the photo. Are route, divorce and separation and Lee. The Key apologizes you sure you didn’t misidentify happen, and it is refreshing to for the error. 2 | SUMMER 2017 Editor’s Letter All the Feels — making the ordinary extraordinary Keep Smiling Angie McNeight, orrowing a quote to make a point is taking the Emory, donated easy road, but then again, poets are the great free dental screenings for the observers. Maya Angelou got it right when she said, Brevard County, “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, Florida, Dental Society’s Give a people will forget what you did, but people will never Smile event. The project is part forget how you made them feel.” B of the American I shared Maya’s quote with mom who is dealing with her organization that helps tweens Dental Association the collegiate women I advise, daughter Tessa’s Rett syn- express themselves as the Foundation’s hoping it will inspire them to drome diagnosis. A rare genetic unique individuals they are, no mission to provide share open hearts and minds disorder that almost exclusively camouflage needed. Read about with potential new members. affects girls, Rett leaves patients Vanessa’s work on Page 20. free dental care Given the chance, I’d like to trapped inside bodies that And, in case you missed it, and education share it with a few politicians deteriorate over time. Nothing Miss America 2017, Savvy to underserved too. Barring that, I aim to could be so ordinary—yet Shields, Arkansas, is a Kappa. children. Angie remember Maya’s words and extraordinary—as a mom doing While I can’t argue that she’s leave the people around me her best to seek medical care for anything but exceptional, she is practices feeling a little better. her daughter while creating a also approachable and focused orthodontics In The Key, we often feature home that feels as ordinary as it on philanthropy while deliver- with Caudill high achievers, but we also can for her daughter and family. ing her “Eat Better, Live Better” strive to tell the stories of every- Read Melissa’s story on Page 30. message. Read more about Savvy Orthodontics day women like Janna Wertz, In our cover story, we delve on Page 48. in Suntree and Wisconsin. Janna saves lives into (or maybe tiptoe around) Finally, to quote an ordinary Merritt Island, by teaching self-rescue-based how tween girls view them- citizen of the interwebs, I leave Florida, and is swimming lessons to children. selves. While the tween years you with these simple words I Read about Janna on Page 6. may conjure visions of bubble read online: “Fill your com- a former Field In this issue we feature gum, Lisa Frank notebooks and ments with blessings.” I’d like Representative a story about collecting art. desultory emotions, it turns to think that you’ll be rewarded for Kappa Two art advisers—Carol Lee out, today’s tweens are the with good feelings—for yourself Kappa Gamma. Brosseau and Miller Gaffney, most likely to conform their and others—in return. both Baylor—offer advice for behavior to blend in and avoid building a collection you’ll love drawing attention to them- whether your budget is out of selves. And sometimes they this world or down to earth. don’t stop blending in until Get Carol Lee’s and Miller’s tips their 40s or 50s when their —Kristin Sangid, Editor on on Page 26. self-esteem has suffered serious We also meet Melissa damage. Vanessa Schenck, DeAngelis, Massachusetts, a Oregon, spearheads a grassroots GET INVOLVED WWW.KAPPA.ORG | 3 “Unless kids have learned how to hold their breath and can get themselves into a horizontal floating position on their back so they can get air on their own, they’re not safe.” — Janna Gribble Wertz IN FANT SWI MMING RESO URCE INST RUCTOR mıxTHE Swimming lessons are a key part of keeping kids safe around water.
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