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pa GE 22 Can You Hear Me Now? Title IX is giving a voice to survivors of sexual assault. LOOKING BACK The Grand Council, Colorado Springs. White gloves and a hat were de rigueur kappa archives in 1933, even when posing with (or sitting side-saddle on) a pair of burros in 1933 the shadow of Cheyenne Mountain.

SUMMER 2015 on Page 24 “I remember wondering what I was supposed to do next, what it meant for the rest of my life.” —Julia Dixon ADVOCATE FOR SURVIVORS OF SEXUAl ASSAUlT

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Me Now? 4 The Mix by Leanne Matu LLo Protocol: Diplomacy begins on the official red carpet. Universities are under 22 pressure to deal How a makeup artist for with campus sexual Breaking Bad got her start assaults under Title IX. Is anything at the Kappa house. improving or are survivors still whistling in the dark? From the Archives: Peek at the pages of Kappa’s oldest remaining The Cowgirl Way written relic. by Jodi noding 38 Through the Keyhole Sara Rangitsch carries From the stage to the 28 on a long tradition classroom, a Tony-Award of Kappas who have winning actress dreams big. reigned as Miss Frontier at the rodeo known as the “Daddy of 42 In Brief ‘Em All.” 44 Key Achievements 46 In Memoriam Back to Basics 48 remix by kait s Mith

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The Key is the first college women’s fraternity magazine, published continuously since 1882.

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Spring 2015 edition of The Key. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Key P.O. Box 38 As a collector of illustrated After my freshman year Career Clarity Columbus, OH 43216-0038 children’s books, I’ve long been at Middlebury in 1955, I had Thank you for the opportunity Kappa Kappa Gamma an admirer of Nancy’s work. It lunch with my grandmother to send questions to the Career Headquarters P.O. Box 38, Columbus, OH 43216-0038 was a great pleasure to see the and wore my pin. At some point Contessa, Lauren McGoodwin, artist and her work from James she observed my pin and said Oregon. At the time, I had moved to Phone: 866-554-1870 (866-KKG-1870) and the Giant Peach featured. in surprise, “Oh, I have one of San Diego and was in a tough place. Email Kappa: [email protected] Email The Key: [email protected] The house that provided a those!” I didn’t quite believe I had come through my post-colle- home for me and other Kappas her, as she hadn’t gone to col- giate years with odd and awesome To change your address or stop receiving The Key, email kkghq@kkg. during World War II years is lege, but sure enough, out came jobs and was ready to find a org or call the number above. Please long gone. But the University of a Kappa key with sapphire long-term career. Unfortunately, include full name. Pennsylvania library will receive stones. She gave it to me and I California had another idea—no the bulk of my collection, and enjoyed wearing it until I found one wanted to hire me. Lauren’s Nancy’s work will be prominent the original owner, Elizabeth advice helped me realize I could facebook.com/kappakappagamma facebook.com/TheKeyMagazine among those books. Ann Long, Michigan. We met create my own professional desti- twitter.com/kappakappagamma courtesy —Barbara Shryock Koelle, for lunch for the return of her nation. Now I am in a career that I linkedin.com Keyword: Kappa Kappa Gamma Pennsylvania lost pin, a gift from her father. absolutely love and can see direct- www.kappa.org/blog What were the chances that my ing my future with airport-runway the milwaukee journa Long Lost Key grandmother would save the clarity. Thank you, Lauren, for the When I read the story in the spring pin and have a granddaughter advice and to Kappa for giving me 2015 issue about Jeffrey Taylor who became a Kappa? the opportunity of networking. Rice finding her mother’s lost —Ann Parnie Frobase, —Shrioni Hunnel, key, I remembered my own story. Middlebury Georgia Southern l

2 | SUMMER 2015 Editor’s Letter

Why We Are Blue and Blue

— a medical match when pink was an option While shadowing at Overlook ummer is a season of blue (like skies and seas), Medical Center unless you live in Ohio, where apparently the only blue in Summit, N.J., pre-med student seen so far is in hopeful trendy teal pedicures that belie Gabby Bleich, Washington what has been one of the rainiest summers on record in Univ. (St. Louis) Ohio. You can debate if teal is even blue at all, but one thing discovered an unexpected I am certain of is that Kappa Kappa Gamma’s Founders got connection it right when they decided upon two shades of blue, steadfast and true. There to obstetric anesthesiologist Swas no debate over red or pink, or was there? Dr. Megan While I’m no expert in the matter in favor of blues (for a was a literate woman, but it was Schraedley Victorians, we know they used second time), Epsilon, Illinois often meant pejoratively. Rosenstein, flowers and colors to publicly Wesleyan, adopted pink and he- So perhaps blue was a more Washington Univ. convey meaning. Just like se- liotrope in late 1881 to use until conservative choice, but I think (St. Louis). They lecting a key and Kappa’s other they received a new constitu- a more likely reason was simply symbols, the choice of two blues tion specifying the exact colors. that blue represents truth, loyal- attended the same was intentional. Until a member It turns out that pink, a ty and wisdom. The values that university, lived received her badge, she was derivative of red, was consid- the shades of blue convey are as on the same floor pinned with colored ribbons to ered more masculine than blue, compatible with the early mem- of their freshman indicate her Greek affiliation. according to Michelle Fin- bers of Kappa Kappa Gamma In 2009, former Fraternity amore, a curator of fashion arts, as they are with today’s modern dorm and pledged President Kay Smith Larson, in a 2014 interview with NPR’s woman. And while I certainly Kappa. Washington, researched Kappa’s Susan Stamberg. Strolling the am not opposed to wearing a “Dr. Rosenstein colors, citing Alice Pillsbury, toy aisle, flushed with pink prin- little pink in my wardrobe, I am the secretary of Alpha Chap- cess paraphernalia, it’s hard to always happy to see a roomful of embodies the life ter, who said the blue colors envision pink as masculine. In blue and blue at Founders Day. that I want for my were selected in 1871 or 1872. the December 1884 issue of The future; to know a But Kay also found records of Key, an editorial recalling a toast fellow Kappa early chapters using cream and at Convention implied that blue cardinal. In both 1878 and 1881, is a frumpy color (who knew). made it there there are motions to change “Our Fraternity Colors: Let —Kristin Sangid, Editor is uplifting,” the colors to two blues. Despite us always stand by them, and says Gabby. Convention minutes record- although we may not be ‘blue ed by Delta, Indiana, in 1881, stockings,’ let us prove ourselves which appeared to settle the ever true blue.” A blue stocking

get involved www.kappa.org | 3 “You find yourself in all of these pinch-me moments.” — Natalie Jones Hallahan U.S. depUtY chief of protocol

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Natalie Jones, Emory, greets president françois

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4 | summer 2015 GET INVOLVED WWW.KAPPA.ORG | 5 Natalie Jones greets Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, the president of the Republic of Colombia, during his arrival to the White House in December 2013. The Best of American Hospitality — Because even world leaders don’t get a second chance to make a first impression.

he image is so familiar: The president of the United States greets a foreign dignitary at the White House. There is the shaking of hands, the rows of waving flags, the line of sleek black SUVs, the walking of the red carpet. • Although it may look clichéd—even automatic

to most—for Natalie Jones Hallahan, Emory, making wikipedia Tmoments like these look seamless is her job. 6 | SUMMER 2015 mıxTHE For Natalie, deputy chief of Natalie says. She and Marshall “When done correctly, protocol of the United States (a had become acquainted while key member of the Department working on Clinton’s presidential these moments—these events—can of State), some moments stand campaign in 2008. out more than others—like It wouldn’t take long for have a huge impact on our foreign preparing for President Barack Natalie to become entrenched policy goals.” Obama’s welcome to President in protocol, which she describes François Hollande of France. “I as the framework for diplomacy just always wanted to remember and engagement for interactions to Natalie was a dinner for in all of these pinch-me that moment, to freeze time,” between nations and leaders. 150 guests hosted by first lady moments.” she recalls. “When done correctly, these Michele Obama in honor of Her While there are books Despite her interest in politics moments—these events—can Majesty the Queen of England and classes that explain from an early age, Natalie never have a huge impact on our for- at the U. S. ambassador’s resi- how to address each type anticipated her career path. eign policy goals,” Natalie says. dence in London. “It was just of official, dignitary or “I never in my wildest dreams “In everything we do, we’re beyond,” Natalie says, recalling leader, Natalie admits that would have thought I’d work in supporting the president, vice the celebrity guests ranging from nothing can quite prepare the State Department,” she says. president and secretary of state David Beckham to Tom Hanks. In you except personal expe- “You hear about protocol, but I in achieving their foreign policy preparing for the event, Natalie rience. “So much of it is an never really knew what it was.” goals by supporting their inter- discovered that the queen is a art,” she says. Interacting That all changed in 2009 actions with foreign leaders.” lover of musicals. So to put a with foreign dignitar- when Natalie received a phone She is quick to add that the cherry on top of the already lavish ies and communicating call from Capricia Marshall, who office employs special touches evening, Kristin Chenoweth with foreign delegations at the time was chief of protocol to go “above and beyond by made a special appearance and requires a resourceful under Secretary of State Hillary making our foreign visitors feel performed for the queen. person. “You have to be a Clinton. Marshall asked Natalie welcome” through ceremonial Natalie counts a trip to Italy as problem solver,” she says. whether she would be inter- events, gift exchanges and offi- one of her most favorite on-the- For Natalie, excellence ested in taking on a new role, cial events that set the tone and job moments. “A highlight was in protocol and diplomacy and Natalie accepted. “It just atmosphere for diplomacy. “We traveling to the Vatican with the are essential to the United goes to show about the personal show them the best of American president and meeting the pope,” States’ foreign policy. “Those relationships you build and just hospitality,” she says. she recalls. “That was really little interactions go such a the luck you build for yourself,” One event that stands out extraordinary. You find yourself long way to forming people’s reaction to us and the United President Barack Obama and States,” she explains. “We’re First Lady Michelle Obama greet the first people that these President François Hollande of leaders and delegations meet. France prior to the State Dinner To be able to represent my at the White House. country has been this great, great experience.” Even after almost six years in the role, Natalie still considers herself fortunate to be serving in the Office of the Chief of Protocol. “I love my job; I really do,” says Natalie. “I pinch myself every day when I wake up.” In the end, Natalie said the key for performing the job is all about staying calm and carrying on: “Like ducks gliding over the water—calm on the surface and paddling like heck underneath.”

official white house photo by lawrence jackson lawrence photo by official white house —By Lucy First, DePauw

get involved www.kappa.org | 7 The color blue represents loyalty, faith, truth, wisdom and trust—perfect sentiments for a wedding.

Blue and Blue, I Do! — Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue: a kappa-themed wedding is easy to do!

hether you’re planning your own dream wedding or dreaming of your daughter’s wed- ding, Caitlin Lawler, Central Florida, has you covered. Owner of Plan It Events in Orlando, Florida, Caitlin has always loved Kappa’s timeless style. So when tasked with creating a rudy and marta photography (4) mock wedding, she joined Renee Pool, Central Florida, and Shannon Tarrant, WConnecticut, to put together the event was filled with Shannon and Renee’s faux wed- the ultimate Kappa details sure to thrill any Kappa ding, and from the true wedding day. From the bride-to-be. blue weddings of real Kappa bride’s sapphire ring to the Here are some tips and brides—to inspire your groom’s key boutonnière, ideas—drawn from Caitlin, blue and blue wedding dreams.

8 | summer 2015 mıxTHE Colors for weddings today,” she says. The color blue represents loy- You can incorporate your alty, faith, truth, wisdom and key colors into details like trust—perfect sentiments for your shoes, your ring or your a wedding. Caitlin suggests flowers. Blue for bridesmaids’ pairing your favorite shade of dresses, table linens or wed- blue with another color, such ding cake accents are another as gold. “Navy and gold is a simple way to work the color popular color combination into your big day.

Flowers arrangements to honor her Include irises in your bouquet, the grandmother, Gladys Minas centerpieces or the groomsmen’s Evans, Indiana, who died before boutonnières. Tracey Oesterle, Tracey’s nuptials. Or consider Colorado College, put irises in other blue flowers like hydran- her bridal bouquet and flower geas, orchids or delphinium.

Paper Goods “Pick one main symbol Owl themed save-the-date to have in a few different announcements, fleur-de- places,” Caitlin suggests. lis place cards, or a key “Keys are a really popu- motif on the invitations set lar wedding accent right up the potential to incorpo- now, or you can have your rate the symbols into other bridesmaids wear fleur-de- parts of your wedding. lis necklaces.”

GET INVOLVED WWW.KAPPA.ORG | 9 Jesse Draper asks:

Traditions “Where are all the Traditions—like singing women in tech?” “Oh, Pat” to the bride, or pinning your badge on the inside of your wedding dress or on your bouquet stem—are small but signif- icant touches that create additional layers of meaning to your wedding day. The key to planning the perfect Kappa wedding? Subtlety. “Keep it subtle in order to make it classy,” says Caitlin. “If you incorporate every little thing, it can become an overload.”

Readings and Vows tartan—the family’s plaid print “A good way to incorporate fabric—is used to tie the bride readers weigh in Kappa is to include it somehow and groom’s hands together. The into a reading, instrumental song ceremony is a visual represen- or vows,” says Caitlin. Elizabeth tation of the tying together of Your Kappa Daumen, Central Florida, used two souls in marriage (and is the a reference to a Kappa song on origin of the phrase “tying the Wedding her wedding day. “My husband knot”). As Elizabeth’s and Cory’s and I both have families of hands were bound together, the Celtic origin, so we decided to officiant read: “Elizabeth and 29% have a Celtic-inspired wedding, Cory, on the heart of each of you including the traditional hand- lies one thread that binds you, a “Oh, Pat” was sung at fasting ceremony,” says Elizabeth. thread that reminds you of this my wedding. During handfasting, a piece of your union day.” 28% I pinned my badge to my bouquet or dress. 21% rudy and marta photography (2); right, tktktktktk I incorporated irises into my flowers. most unique: clem murray zuma press I was married by a In the end, it’s all about the bride and groom. “Focus on the Kappa sister. purpose of getting married. It’s very easy to get caught up in the stress of planning, but just remember to keep in mind who you’re marrying I was married at and why,” Caitlin says. “Be sure to make it your wedding and show the BGSU house. your personality and likes.” —By Catherine Roebuck

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talking tech Tech Needs a Touch of Pink

Jesse Draper, UCLA, encourages and invests in tech startups run by women.

Don’t let Jesse Draper’s preDilection for pink fool you. When it comes to her role as talk show host of the 2015 Emmy-nominated The Valley Girl Show, she’s no light- weight. In addition to interviewing top tech CEOs such as Mark Cuban and Sheryl Sandberg for her show, Jesse is an investor in tech startups. Nothing gets her more excited than seeing, explaining and investing in new technology. At age 23, fresh off of the set of Nickelodeon’s The Naked Brothers Band, where she starred as a ditzy nanny, Jesse applied her acting talents to her fascination with technol- ogy to create The Valley Girl Show. Hundreds of interviews with CEOs later, and literally growing up as she produced the show, today Jesse is a little less into pink and a lot more down to business. She approaches interviews with a curi- osity and eagerness to translate tech topics into digestible bites because not everyone “thinks geek,” she says. The daughter of a venture capitalist, Jesse grew up being challenged by her dad with questions at the dinner table such as, “How are you going to turn this into a business?” or “How can you affect an industry?” With these lessons in hand, she is a fourth generation entrepreneur and the first female in her family to start a company. Her initiative to interview at least 50 percent female CEOs on the show has been harder than she expected. “Where are all the women in tech?” She often has to dig to find them, but the numbers are improving. A year ago, Jesse set out to encourage women to enter tech by setting up an “angel fund” specifically for fe- male-founded companies. Valley Girl Ventures invests at the seed stage before companies have taken on invest- ments. So far she has invested in 14 startups, including interior design startup Laurel & Wolf. She said when women entrepreneurs are hesitant to do interviews, she encourages them to inspire others. Her advice to women entrepreneurs or women in traditionally male industries: “Just speak up. It’s not a bad thing to be the only girl in the board room.”

the valley girl show the valley —By Kristin Styers Sangid, Georgia Southern

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Wyatt Heaton and Liza Haynie Heaton were married in a surprise wedding ceremony Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014. The wedding was planned after Liza was given less than one month to live. Live Like You Were Dying — They stood up at the altar in the face of what seemed like certain death. How their viral story gave them the platform—and the funds—to stand up to cancer.

he cancer was back. aggressive and rare, synovial sarcoma is a soft tissue cancer most common in young people like Liza Haynie Heaton, Washington and Lee. Liza was 22 when she was first diagnosed, and

after chemotherapy, radiation and surgeries, she spent henrietta wildsmith/the times, henrietta wildsmith/the times three years in remission. But on Thanksgiving Day 2014, Liza went to the hospital with severe stomach pain and learned that her Tcancer-free days were over. “I thought we had beat it,” chemotherapy pill she’d need on those dreams just yet. Liza told the Today Show in for a hope of survival. It was A couple of days after Liza’s December 2014. “You’re not hard to focus on anything but relapse diagnosis, more than really ever ready for that news.” the worst: the people she’d leave 100 friends and family members This time—at age 25—the behind, the opportunities she’d descended upon her hometown prognosis was grim: three weeks miss, the dreams that would of Shreveport, Louisiana. They’d to live. An intestinal blockage die with her. But Liza and her been urged to drop everything meant Liza couldn’t receive the fiancé, Wyatt, weren’t giving up to gather for a lakeside fish fry

12 | summer 2015 with Liza. In their minds, the wouldn’t be able to stand for Books message was clear: this is going very long. “We’re going to have to be goodbye. to make this a quick ceremony,” But soon they began to notice she’d said. But Liza managed to signs that something else was stand and dance and celebrate Hot New afoot: a photographer capturing for hours. She describes that every moment. Wyatt in a for- night as the best of her life. mal suit. Liza in a white gown, “At that time, we still Summer Books carrying a bouquet of flowers. thought I was only going to be The surprise wedding had been able to do palliative care and pulled off in less than 48 hours. go into hospice afterward. So Looking for poolside page-turners to dive into? Sometimes that’s all it takes to there was definitely a sense Here’s a mix of new memoir, fiction keep a dream from dying. of this is our last goodbye. and historical nonfiction titles that you In this era of social media, But at the same time, it was won’t be able to put down. Liza’s story went viral—garnering our wedding!” Liza told CNN international coverage. Although in a televised interview in —Compiled by Kristen Desmond LeFevre, Indiana she had always considered herself December 2014. “It really was a private person, Liza agreed my dream wedding.” to publicize her story to spread For Liza’s friend Mary Helen synovial sarcoma awareness and Turnage, Washington and to raise funds to discover new Lee, the wedding was beyond therapies for those battling it. a dream—more like a miracle. “I had talked to my oncol- “The wedding lifted her spirits ogist, Dr. Christian Meyer at so much it literally cleared the Johns Hopkins, who is one thing that was preventing her of the top in the world,” Liza from fighting,” she says. explains. “He was telling us he That could explain how wished there was more he could Liza went from a single do, that if only we knew more woman on the threshold of about the disease … but it’s so hospice care to a newlywed underfunded, so rare.” with hope for treatment in The Wright The Rumor To help her sister’s cause, Ann the span of just 24 hours. The Brothers By elin hilDeBranD Marie Haynie, Washington and day after the wedding, Liza’s By DaviD Mccullough Lee, established the Love for intestinal blockage sponta- Two Nantucket friends in Liza Fund at the Johns Hopkins neously cleared. Pulitzer Prize winner crisis try to mend their Kimmel Cancer Center—where a “The second we got back to McCullough tells the story- friendship. Will the truth set specialized team is working Shreveport and started plan- behind-the-story about two them free? to find new treatments for syno- ning that wedding, she just brothers who dared to fly. vial sarcoma. perked up,” Ann Marie says. The viral media coverage gave “You could see that something the fund a heady head-start: was changing and she was Love for Liza has received more doing much better.” than $560,000 in donations and Liza’s chemotherapy is recognized as one of the resumed and a CT scan most successful GoFundMe performed in February 2015 campaigns to date. showed that her tumors were Since synovial sarcoma affects shrinking. “They’re not gone, just 12,000 people each year but at least I’m making prog- in the U.S., it is classified as an ress,” Liza explains. “orphan disease”—one that few “We’re hopeful to beat it people get and fewer research- again and go into remission Getting Real Go Set A ers study. Liza intends to change and spend the rest of our lives By gretchen carlson Watchman at least that last part. “People together,” Liza told 11 Alive By harper lee will forget about me in 15 min- News, an Atlanta-based NBC gretchen carlson, Stanford, utes,” she told the Shreveport affiliate. “Maybe it will turn shares her journey from Twenty years after we meet Times, “but this money will around,” she says. “And if child violin prodigy in Scout she returns home to go on helping people with the it doesn’t … enjoy what you Minnesota to anchor of visit her father and reflects on disease for a long time.” have. Enjoy the time you have The Real Story on FOX News. the changes sweeping through As her wedding approached, left.” —By Kristen Desmond America in the mid-1950s. Liza warned the pastor that she LeFevre, Indiana

get involved www.kappa.org | 13 A New Leash on Life — Making Adoption Your First Option: Molly’s Mutts and Meows

olly Thompsen Wootton, Kansas, is rooting for animals that have no one else on their side. Her dream? To end America’s stray animal problem. With approximately 7.6 million animals entering U.S. shelters each year, that’s a dream so big that to christina cgandolfo some it may seem like a nightmare. “Yeah, it’s a big Mdream,” Molly says. “But I believe you either dream big, or you go home.” 14 | SUMMER 2015 mıxTHE After moving to Los Angeles animal rescue world,” Molly says. we spend,” Molly says, “We spend from New York, Molly was “You open up your heart and an average of $800 on each ani- struck by the chronic over- your home to an animal in need, mal that comes into our rescue. population of shelter animals, saving it from a very uncertain, Without donations, we would not including its staggering euthana- many times unfortunate, future.” be able to continue to save the sia rate—the highest in the U.S. Molly’s foster families give lives of homeless cats and dogs in Molly rescued a dog and began a second chance to all kinds of the Los Angeles area.” volunteering at a local animal dogs and cats—no matter their A dreamer and a realist, Molly rescue, spending weekends walk- breed, size, age or temperament. is all too aware that she can’t “You open up ing dogs, petting cats and helping “We don’t discriminate,” Molly achieve her dream alone—even care for animals in need. says. Whereas some rescue with her army of Molly’s Mutts your heart During her work as a volun- organizations limit their scope and Meows volunteers. She and your teer, Molly sniffed out a major (accepting only purebred animals, partners with other Los Angeles flaw in the typical adoption- animals without medical issues, organizations to pull animals home to an through-rescue process: When young animals only, no “aggres- from kill shelters and place them potential rescue families sive-breeds,” etc.), Molly’s Mutts with reputable rescue groups. animal in inquired about an animal’s and Meows takes on all comers. “Until society stops the leak by need, saving temperament in a home environ- Consider Bess, for example: spaying and neutering, micro- ment, the staff could provide She’s a pit bull lovingly known chipping pets, not overbreeding, it from a very almost no insight. They had as the rescue’s “Cow Pit,” for the and stopping puppy mills, we’re no knowledge of the animals’ cow-like markings covering her never going to get rid of this uncertain, behavior outside the confines of coat. Bess was surrendered by a problem entirely,” Molly says. many times a kennel-style rescue. family moving into an apartment. “But we believe the more local Molly was determined to find After Molly’s Mutts and Meows rescues effectively communi- unfortunate, a way around this flaw—not only rescued her from a local shelter, cate with each other, the more improving the adoption-through- Bess spent four weeks in a train- effectively we will be able to future.” rescue process but improving the ing program. With her lovable help those that cannot speak for lives of stray dogs and cats as they personality and her positive themselves.” —By Lindsey waited for their forever homes. In foster experience, Bess’ foster Sanders Crocker, UCLA 2005, the self-described “snarky family believes “she can be an vegan and animal lover” founded ambassador for her breed.” Molly’s Mutts and Meows, a non- Beyond foster care, Molly’s Pet Population: Do the Math profit organization that enlists provides veterinary treatments, foster families to house animals vaccinations, food, spaying or Approximately 7.6 million animals will enter an animal while they await adoption. neutering, and training if needed shelter across the United States this year. Only about After housing animals in for each animal. But that’s just the 1.2 million of those will be reclaimed by their owners. Only homes, “we can tell you so much start. As Molly points out: “It is 2.7 million of the remaining animals will be adopted out of a more about each mutt or meow not uncommon that some of these shelter. That leaves 3.7 million dogs and cats without homes. that we pull from overcrowded dogs and cats require much more city shelters,” Molly says. The extensive care. Many of them are strategy removes the unknowns sick when we pull them from the from the adoption process, mak- shelter. Some have even required  ing Molly’s Mutts and Meows surgery from specialty veterinari- confident about matching ani- ans.” In 2009 alone, Molly’s Mutts  mals to appropriate families. and Meows spent more than It’s a strategy that’s proven $65,000 on veterinary care.  itself: since 2005, Molly’s Mutts Molly’s Mutts and Meows and Meows has successfully keeps the doggie (and kitty) door  placed over 1,100 animals. open through funds received The team of about 30 foster- from adoption fees, and also from  volunteers work to find homes private donors, sponsorships for animals they rescue from kill- and grants, as well as funds from  shelters in the Los Angeles area. Molly’s personal bank account. “Fostering an animal is one of the “The adoption fee does not come  most noble acts you can do in the remotely close to covering what

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Beauty Meets Breaking Bad — never underestimate the power of a perfect smokey eye

or Ashlynne Padilla, New Mexico, it started as an innocent pastime. As a child, she’d arm herself with a stack of magazines and a case full of brightly colored cosmet- ics, marching into the bathroom to spend hours recreating makeup looks from the glossy pages. “I started out just lov- ing how makeup transformed people,” Ashlynne says.

In college, the love affair The Lying Game, MacGruber, A Despite her busy movie-mak- grew as sisters lined up outside Million Ways to Die in the West, ing schedule, Ashlynne sets aside FAshlynne’s room, begging The Avengers, and most recently time to use her talents to trans- her to do their makeup for Jane Got a Gun—due in theaters form those who need it most, Kappa formals. September 2015. providing makeover sessions to It wasn’t long before her But her favorite experience? patients (and their families) at passion for makeup blossomed Working on the show that made the University of New Mexico into a career as one of the film her hometown of Albuquerque Hospital’s Cancer Center. “I love industry’s most respected famous: Breaking Bad. being able to see their faces light up-and-coming makeup artists. “It was an amazing opportu- up when they get pink glitter Ashlynne landed a job at MAC nity. The cast was incredible, lip gloss,” Ashlynne says. “It shortly after graduation. Several and I loved being able to work reminds me of why I love doing months later, she got a gig doing with such talented people in makeup so much.” makeup on the set of the film my own backyard,” Ashlynne No matter how many film sets Not Forgotten. She was hooked. recalls. Ashlynne went out with she works on, Ashlynne credits After that first film wrapped, a bang when she was asked Kappa for the important role it

Ashlynne enrolled at Westmore to do the makeup for Bryan played. “It’s really where I per- q.q. jade photography Academy to study special effects Cranston and Aaron Paul for the fected the smokey eye,” she says, makeup. Soon, she was amassing cover of Entertainment Weekly laughing. “I got a lot of practice credits for films such as Book for a story on the show’s finale. with those formals.” of Eli, Terminator Salvation, “It really was the last hoorah,” —By Mandi Kane, Thor, In Plain Sight, Easy Money, she explains.  New Mexico

16 | SUMMER 2015 Kappa Kandy sweet selections for sisters everywhere

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GET INVOLVED WWW.KAPPA.ORG | 17 mıxTHE Picturesque Porches & Patios — easy livin’ at these Kappa houses featuring outdoor oases

orches and patios are welcoming extensions of any house, calling you outdoors to enjoy fresh air, summer sun and meals al fresco. These chapters offer pretty patios, porches and courtyards where Kappas make the Pmost of their outdoor living spaces. Won’t you sit a spell?

All Keyed Up Rock On ARIZONA, GAMMA ZETA NORTH CAROLINA, EPSILON GAMMA

Eighty-six women call the their backyard during Kappa Epsilon Gamma has been facility. The Little House is Gamma Zeta house home Con Queso to raise money meeting on Pittsboro Street a respite from the bustle of each year, but the entire for Reading Is Fundamental. since 1958. In fact, they are activity surrounding the main chapter enjoys its lush They also supplied hot dogs the only chapter on campus house. Epsilon Gammas use courtyard, filled with palm in their yard during their still residing in its original their front porch for relaxing shelley welander; ashley smith trees. Since the house is annual Stand Up to Cancer chapter house. In the 1980s, in rockers and on the porch located behind the Student event. While members agree UNC Kappa expanded its swing, while the front lawn Union, members often lounge their house is unparalleled facilities by adding the is perfect for large festiv- outside between classes, on campus, all Kappas should appropriately named “Little ities like Bid Day. Epsilon study on the lawn and eat note a special quality: From House.” At first, it was used as Gamma suports RIF as well their meals outdoors. The an aerial view, the house is in an annex to house members; as earlier.org to find a test chapter gave out nachos in the shape of a key. today it is used as a study for breast cancer.

18 | SUMMER 2015 Lodge Life Double Decker Digs TEXAS TECH, DELTA PSI LSU, DELTA IOTA

EACH SORORITY AT TEXAS Pride Week, all the sorori- THE GRAND DOUBLE PORCH OF Iotas love a crawfish boil: The Tech has a lodge on Greek ties hold a block party in Delta Iota’s chapter house, as chapter holds an annual event Circle. The Kappa lodge the circle. Greek camarade- well as a back courtyard, has in the backyard, which ben- received a new brick lay in rie paid off big time for the been welcoming members efits Reading Is Fundamental 2014, thanks to the House chapter’s 18th annual Kappa since 1966. Kappas wanting and the Rose McGill Fund. Board. The Delta Psis use their Klassic golf tournament. The to catch a breeze in the hot Members also use the porch to lodge for chapter meetings, chapter raised $31,000 at the Southern climate can be found show LSU spirit, often hanging study halls, Recruitment and 2014 campus-wide event for relaxing and studying in the a banner emblazoned with more. During Panhellenic Children’s Miracle Network. rockers on the porch. Delta “Geaux Tigers.”

A Little Bit of Sunshine Porch Perspective SANTA CLARA, ETA NU MONMOUTH, ALPHA

IN 2009, ETA NU MEMBERS house for Parents Weekend. IN FALL 2010, MONMOUTH (and they hope it includes a received their own chap- For Recruitment, the chapter College gave a house to each porch). Meanwhile they use ter house, complete with uses the back porch, dur- sorority on campus. Built the outdoor space at their fleur-de-lis floor tiles. This ing which time the outdoor in 1890, the Alpha Chapter current home for the new home says Kappa from every living area is chalked with house was originally pur- member cookout and the angle, from the large cut-out Kappa-themed designs and chased by the college in 1948 homecoming parade, where of “KKK” on the front lawn adorned with little lights for to house additional female alumnae enjoy the front row to the patio gate painted preference night. The Eta students. But the Kappas view from the porch. Not with “Welcome to the Kappa Nus love their home so much still meet in Marshall Hall too far away is The Stewart Kastle.” Members love using they made their 2014 Bid Day due to space limitations in House, which is the home of the house for their Founders T-shirts the same shade of the house. The chapter is Founder Minnie Stewart, the

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GET INVOLVED WWW.KAPPA.ORG | 19 Ask Clara Advice for any occasion

Clara Pierce, Ohio State, was Executive Secretary of Kappa Kappa Gamma from 1929–1969. She urged members Dear Clara: to “aspire nobly … adventure daringly … but serve humbly.” A work colleague constantly asks for my help, which keeps me from completing my real work. How can I tell him “no” without feeling like a you-know-what?  —Signed, Yes, No, Maybe So

Dear Maybe So: Focus on black tie. Choose a gown in a Dear Tip-Top: saying no to the idea—not the bright color, or wear a black Here are some guidelines to person. When he asks for help, gown with brightly colored follow as you embark on your consider saying: “I appreciate heels and a statement necklace. next sisterhood weekend: your confidence in my abilities enough that you ask for my Casual Dressy: It is a step up Baggage Handlers: Tip assistance. But I’m sorry I can’t from business casual. Be sure $1 to $2 per bag. help you this time. I have dead- to consider the event’s location lines I have to meet.” Defer gra- and time. For example, casual Dining: For table service restau- ciously and reassure him that he dressy for a backyard gradua- rants, tip 15 percent to 20 percent can handle the task himself. tion party might mean a cotton of the bill. For buffets, tip $1 per dress and flats. diner or 10 percent of the bill. DearClara:LatelyI’vebeen stumpedbydresscodesoninvi- When in doubt, the host is Hotel: Tip $2 to $5 per night tationsforweddingsandother your best resource when it for housekeepers. Tip $5 to $10 events.Casualdressy?Creative comes to figuring out what to for concierge services. blacktie?I’vegotthemoretra- wear. Barring that, always err ditionaloneslikecocktail,black on the side of caution and dress Transportation: Tip valets $3 tie,andbusinesscasualdown— a bit more formally. to $5. For drivers, tip 15 percent butthesehavemeconfused. to 20 percent. What’sagirltowear? DearClara:Agroupofmy  —Signed,DressCodeRed pledgesisterstakeatrip Entertainment: For tour togethereachyear.It’slike guides or instructors, tip 10 Dear Code Red: A puzzling timeneverpassedandwe’re percent to 15 percent. dress code is sometimes worse rightbackintheKappa than no dress code at all! Try houseagain.Theonlydiscord Consider the service you’re these suggestions on for size: comeswhenit’stimeto getting and give what’s appro- doug distel Have a question leaveatip.Couldyougive priate. Remember: Any tip given for Clara? Creative Black Tie:Think ussomeguidelines? with a smile and a thank you is { [email protected] } of creative black tie as trendy  —Signed,Tip-TopTipper always better than no tip at all.

20 | SUMMER 2015 From the Archives mıxTHE Kappa’s Oldest Surviving Record

Known as the “Delta Red Book,” the minutes of Delta Chapter, Indiana, are handwritten in this book that time has faded a rust-brown. Delta is the oldest continuous chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma, and this book is the oldest remaining record of Fraternity activity. Jan. 2, 1873, is the first entry: a President, Secretary and Treasurer were elected, and weekly meetings were established. Given to the Fraternity in 1957, the Red Book survived the 1965 fire that damaged Fraternity Headquarters. It is now kept in fireproof storage. Handwritten entries in the Red Book offer a glimpse into the  —ByKylie Towers Smith, Simpson lives of Kappa’s earliest members. catherine roebuck catherine

GET INVOLVED WWW.KAPPA.ORG | 21 22 | SUMMER 2015 Whistling in the Dark

When sexual assault takes place on a college campus—all halcyon and ivy- walled—it seems all the more horrifying. Title IX offers protection to women on U.S. campuses, but until recently it was largely ignored. Now, universities face heightened pressure to deal with sexual assaults on campus. These whistleblowers are working to keep the pressure on.

By Leanne Aurich Matullo, Pittsburgh PHOTO BY SCOTT GOLDSMITH

GET INVOLVED WWW.KAPPA.ORG | 23 hen it comes to business are victims of sexual assault, accusations of colleges and universities attire, Julia Dixon, Akron, mishandling, or even covering up, campus sexual assaults are still all has next to nothing. She is too common. a full-time technical writer, At press time, more than 100 schools were under federal investi- a job she does from home. gation by the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights. Kappa When she does go into the Kappa Gamma has a chapter at 35 of these 100 schools. office, it’s casual all the The schools are charged with failing to comply with Title IX, a fed- way. But casual won’t cut eral law that prohibits sex discrimination in education and requires it at the White House—and prompt investigations into sexual assault complaints. Some institu- that’s where she’s headed tions have failed to open investigations at all, while others conduct this morning. overly long investigations—sometimes taking close to two years to Julia rifles through her closet and chooses a gray skirt suit close a case. and an emerald blouse, and heels that (thanks to her aching feet) This lack of enforcement creates an untenable situation for many Wshe will later regret. She drives four hours from Pittsburgh to victims, in which they have no choice but to study and live in close Washington, D.C. Then, it’s a half-mile walk from the metro stop proximity to their attackers, often residing in the same residence hall en route to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which is and eating meals in the same dining facility. next door to the White House. It is raining and she’s frustrated Such was the case with Julia Dixon. that her hair isn’t cooperating. She has her portfolio full of notes. She’s determined to have her voice heard among other survivors and advocates. That doesn’t mean Julia was in her first week of her freshman year she’s not a little anxious. She gets lost on her way to the Eisenhower when she was sexually assaulted. Building, unsure of which door on which side of the building to enter. They lived in the same residence hall. She didn’t know him well, but But she finds her way after all. they had been hanging out with a group of other students on her coed It was only a few weeks prior that Julia was asked to attend an floor, eating pizza and watching YouTube videos in the study hall. He event put on by the White House’s Task Force to Protect Students assaulted her after she returned to her room to get homemade fudge from Sexual Assault. So here she is, on Feb. 21, 2014, sitting at a long her family had sent in a care package. Alcohol wasn’t a factor. wooden table among 16 other guests in the vice president’s ceremo- “I remember wondering what I was supposed to do next, what it nial office. The room is trimmed with hardwood and brass. A mantel meant for the rest of my life,” Julia says. houses a boat sculpture unlike anything Julia has ever seen. It’s a sur- After the incident, Julia called a close friend, then the police. It real feeling, but she’s here. took nearly two years for a conviction to take place. More than that. She’s here to save a life. Or at least to help pre- But for the next 20 months, Julia endured living in the residence vent someone else from dealing with the hell she has lived through by quad and eating in the same dining hall as her perpetrator, if she went shaping policies to protect students from sexual assault. to the dining hall at all (not often, after the incident). She filed a federal complaint against the university, stating that uni- versity officials discouraged her from filing charges against her assailant The stories have permeated the media this year: and that the university failed to provide academic accommodations. stories of colleges misreporting data of sexual assault complaints; The police didn’t issue a restraining order until late in her sopho- stories of celebrities abusing their power; stories of gang rape and more year, as she was headed to court. “As a freshman, I had no legal dating violence on campuses across the country; and stories of the protections against my assailant. It scared me,” Julia recalls. perils of binge drinking and its link to sexual violence. In 2010, almost two years after her assault, Julia’s rape kit returned The media attention is new, but the issue has long been pervasive. from testing. Her case was opened in court and was closed with a Nearly one in five women and one in 71 men in the United States guilty plea of a lesser charge from her assailant. have been raped at some time in their lives, according to Centers for “It felt like a giant weight had been lifted off of me, validation for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) surveys. And, nearly 50 per- everything I had been through. But finding out I was the only per- cent of women and 20 percent of men have experienced other forms son in recent history at my school to have a rapist arrested—let alone of sexual violence. taken to court—opened my eyes to the work that still needs done,” Victimization often occurs before the age of 25. The CDC reports Julia says. that 42 percent of female victims in the U.S. were first raped before Akron now has a committee, the Sexual Assault Response Team the age of 18. Thirty-seven percent were first raped between the ages (SART), which was formed in May 2014. They have launched a new of 18–24. During their college years, 19 percent experience attempted Title IX webpage, which includes the ability to file an electronic com- or completed sexual assault, according to CDC data. plaint; launched a new educational sexual respect webpage; revised its And even though such a high percentage of college-aged students investigatory procedures; made steps to create an interactive online

24 | summer 2015 training program regarding sexual assault for both staff and students; It’s sad, but it’s true: stories like Julia’s and Madeleine’s and published a comprehensive list of community resources. aren’t unique. Madeleine Smith, Harvard, faced a similarly lengthy investigation In April 2013, 91 cases—ranging from harassment to assault—were process. She filed a sexual assault complaint with her university in reported at Swarthmore University, and the school was accused of October 2012 and her investigation lasted until May 2013, the same mishandling sexual assault reports. month as commencement. Mia Ferguson, a sophomore at Swarthmore, wrote an op-ed arti- “It’s supposed to be done in 60 days. Title IX says it has to, but that cle titled “Raped and Betrayed” for a student newspaper that year. obviously didn’t happen,” Madeleine says. Harvard has since hired Another student, Hope Brinn, stood before the school’s board and a Title IX officer and prepared a new policy on sexual assault. The recounted how she was assaulted, stalked and then met with “grave university set up a task force to prevent sexual assault, as well. indifference” by the administration. Like Julia, Madeleine shared a living space with her perpetrator. At Columbia University, student Emma Sulkowicz made national At Harvard, students live in a “house system.” Houses, similar to news in October 2014 when she began carrying around a mattress college dorms, have their own dining halls and their own strong com- to protest the school’s questionable response to her rape complaint. munities. Throughout the entire investigation, Madeleine lived in the Two months later, students at American University organized to same house system as her accused attacker. protest the school’s lack of response to leaked emails in which frater- The university told Madeleine that she would have to move or file nity members discussed drugging and raping female students. And, another complaint. From sheer exhaustion at that time, she opted to in November 2014, the University of Virginia made front-page news

scott goldsmith do neither. with allegations of mishandling of sexual assault reports.

GET INVOLVED WWW.KAPPA.ORG | 25 Madeleine Smith introduced Vice President Joe Biden before he delivered the first report from the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault.

Department of Justice, the Office of the First Lady, senators, survivors and advo- cates, among others. One of the products of the task force is the “It’s On Us” campaign, which seeks to inspire each American to feel per- sonally responsible for helping prevent sexual assaults. The campaign launched in September 2014 and boasts partners like the ACC, Big Ten, Big East, EA Sports, CMT, iHeartMedia, EverFi, MTV, NCAA, Microsoft, Tumblr and many college campuses. Currently, the campaign is circulating a video featuring celebri- ties and politicians like Jon Hamm, The lack of campus response became a national conversation: Kerry Washington and Vice President Biden. Kappa Kappa Gamma What can we do to make sure victims feel safe and supported? recently joined with “It’s On Us” as part of an ongoing effort to spread The federal government’s response began in 2011, when the Obama awareness of sexual assault and dating violence. “One of Kappa’s top Administration sent a letter to every U.S. college, noting that failure priorities is to ensure the safety of our members—our sisters. The to properly address claims of sexual violence was creating a hostile Fraternity is in the process of partnering with outside vendors and campus environment, prohibited by Title IX. organizations to secure resources that will provide education sur- In January 2014, the Obama Administration established a White rounding sexual assault to both undergraduate and alumna members House task force—led by Vice President Joe Biden and the White of our organization,” said Fraternity President Beth Uphoff Black, House Council on Women and Girls—a group charged with raising Illinois Wesleyan. awareness of sexual assault and ensuring that colleges and universi- In addition, Kappa is developing tools to assist chapters if a member ties comply with Title IX regulations. becomes a victim of sexual assault. Right now, there is no procedure in In part, the task force is tackling the problems that Julia and place to assist chapters and advisers if a member reports a case. Madeleine faced: ensuring that when a sexual assault is alleged on Emily Langdon, UC Davis, Pi Province Director of Chapters, is a campus, the school follows established procedures and takes swift leading this effort along with a group of higher education and health action so victims can continue their education in an environment free professionals. The group will recommend a three-pronged approach of ongoing sex discrimination, harassment or violence. The task force to Fraternity Council. “We didn’t just want to be reactive,” Emily also is taking aim at the complex process of reporting sexual assaults, says. “We believe in education at KKG.” ensuring institutions offer clear navigation and ready access to support The team developed a resource guide for chapters to use in response and resources. to reports of sexual violence. They also have proposed an educational In April 2014, the task force released its first report. It later workshop, coordinated by the chapter Education Chairman but pro- launched NotAlone.gov, a resource for schools and students that vided by campus or community members. shares information on how to respond to and prevent cases of sex- Also in development is a training to help Standards Committees ual assault. Julia and Madeleine were both present at the launch—an become more skilled in supporting sisters who are victims of sexual event at the White House—but they hadn’t yet met. assault. Emily has asked Vice Presidents of Standards for their feed- Madeleine’s attorney from the Victim Rights Law Center in Boston back and impressions, and she says that they are, in general, relieved worked closely with the White House’s task force. About four days to hear that resources will be coming soon. prior to the event, she asked Madeleine if she would be interested in “They say that talking with me about it makes them aware of introducing Vice President Biden. how unprepared they feel … so it’s been affirming that this work is ap images Madeleine agreed, and shared her story, addressing members of important, necessary and will be perceived as helpful to our under- the president’s cabinet, staff from the Department of Education, the graduate members,” Emily explains.

26 | summer 2015 Kappa will also prepare a group of Kappa Trainers to host preven- the Bystander and Green Dot engage campus community members tion and awareness workshops at chapters or for Panhellenic and to be stakeholders in sexual violence prevention. These programs, Greek communities. which are gaining traction, also help prevent violence by teaching Further, the Fraternity is reviewing curriculum options for a sexual people to challenge social norms like objectifying women or glorify- assault awareness and prevention program to help students under- ing abusive power. stand the many aspects of gender-based violence. Once selected, the Debra believes that families, college students, adolescents, teach- program will be available to all members. ers and other community members need to keep talking about sexual For the future, Kappa hopes to create a PSA about sexual assault. assault in order to prevent it. “I view it as something that people need “As an organization of women, it is Kappa’s responsibility to equip to get familiar with and that we need to be more open in talking about our members with the knowledge and tools to protect ourselves and it. I think the more we talk and say it’s not OK and what is acceptable each other,” Beth says. behavior … that starts to change the conversation.” As the national push for greater awareness gains momentum on college campuses, Dr. Debra Houry, Emory, is doing her part. As director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, It’s close to 10 a.m. on April 29, 2014, during Julia’s second Debra and her team provide guidance on violence prevention ini- visit to the Eisenhower Building and the event is about to start. Julia tiatives and strategies to the White House Task Force to Protect is here to listen to the first report from the White House Task Force to Students from Sexual Assault. Protect Students from Sexual Assault, a report that her contributions Debra says we need to start the conversation about sexual assault helped to shape. early. “We need to focus on prevention in early adolescence,” First, she listens to Madeleine’s introduction of Vice President Joe Biden (later Julia learns Madeleine is a Kappa, too), followed by Biden’s remarks and then the recommendations of the task force. “I understand that not everyone is During her initial visit to the Eisenhower Building, Julia had spo- ken about the importance of establishing sexual assault policies that able to speak out on these injustices. are more transparent and easily accessible for students. A woman across the table had chimed in, sharing that she had worked on sim- For whatever reason, be it fear or ilar policies. These recommendations have been included in the task force’s report. safety or distrust of society, we can’t Julia will never know whether her efforts will save a life. But there is no doubt that someone somewhere will take comfort in the pol- and shouldn’t expect every victim icies she’s helped put into place. Maybe one less person will be put through what both she and Madeleine suffered in the months after to come forward and speak.” their attacks. In the end, what matters is that she showed up. Today, Julia is an ambassador for PAVE—Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment. It’s an organization that aims to break the says Debra. “College is too late.” A mother of a first-grader, Debra silence of sexual violence through targeted social, educational and says that certain types of sexual violence—such as harassment or legislative tactics. Julia speaks at conferences for Greek organi- groping—can start as young as middle school. Debra says parents, zations and summits to promote state legislation on sexual assault teachers and community members should educate youth early prevention and awareness. Most recently, she delivered a speech at about healthy relationships. the invitation of the attorney general of Illinois, a state considering “Talk to your children early on about appropriate and inappropriate a bill to improve response and reporting of campus sexual assaults. touching,” Debra counsels. “At each stage, make it more targeted. In Why does Julia share her story? “These are the cards I was dealt, middle school, where some are having sex or experiencing bullying or and I can’t do anything about that. But I can play the hand to the best dating violence, that’s a really great time to have these conversations.” of my ability to help others. I understand that not everyone is able to She says that in order to protect individuals from sexual violence speak out on these injustices. For whatever reason, be it fear or safety and rape, we have to start changing social norms. or distrust of society, we can’t and shouldn’t expect every victim to At the college level, Debra suggests that schools adopt a comprehen- come forward and speak. sive prevention strategy that addresses risk and protective factors at “But I want to help, because sexual assault affects us all. Every all levels—individual, peer and community level—using evidence. She one of us knows a survivor of rape, whether they have disclosed that recommends the use of student voices and leadership. “Sometimes, to us or not. I tell my story, and whether it’s at the White House or we’ll see a top down approach. We really need a student voice. You a Greek house, I try to change the effect and foster healthy, more want the students to be supporting this effort.” supportive communities.” Debra says that bystander intervention programs liks Bringing in To learn more, visit http://pavingtheway.net/

get involved www.kappa.org | 27 The Dandies, a team of high-school aged female riders, perform drills on horseback at Cheyenne Frontier Days. The Cow girl Way

28 | SUMMER 2015 The Cow girl Way

Legendary Cheyenne Frontier Days routinely wrangled by regal Kappas BY JODI NODING, FLORIDA

GET INVOLVED WWW.KAPPA.ORG | 29 In the tiniest towns to the largest cities, summer in the U.S. is fair and festival time. And no place is this tradition richer than in Cheyenne, Wyoming, home of Cheyenne Frontier Days, known as the “Daddy of ’Em All!” and is considered one of the premier festivals in the country.

About 500,000 people flocked to this year’s 10-day event—which Recalls Collett: “Her very first Shetland pony, Princess, was a began as a rodeo back in 1897—that celebrates the American West, Christmas gift that was carefully groomed and prepared on a cold past and present. Stars from Keith Urban to Blake Shelton took the Christmas Eve for Sara’s discovery the next morning.” A family friend stage, multiple parades showcased horses and bull riders thrilled and longtime horseman, Dick Torkelson, “accompanied Sara on all spectators. For the flavor of the past, there was the Old Frontier Town, future horse purchases—telling me early on that the horse was the Indian Village, the Chuckwagon Cookoff and Old West Museum. cheap part,” Collett says. “How true, as then comes the trailer, the At the heart of this celebration is the community of Cheyenne. barn, the saddle and even more horses.” Resident Collett Beers Rangitsch, Wyoming, recalls when as a little Sara actually is one in a long line of Kappa Miss Frontiers—seven girl at Frontier Days her father flipped pancakes and her mom participated others have preceded her. Duties are not for your run-of-the-mill in historic home tours. Collett calls it a “Kappa Convention on horse- royalty. The coronation ball is followed the next morning by a cat- back because just like Kappa’s convention, the entire event is put on by tle drive, “moving hundreds of head of cattle about eight miles to volunteers—more than 2,300 this year. There is something for everyone. Frontier Park,” Sara says. Then comes the whirlwind of pancake If you are from Cheyenne you either love it and are all in, or you inten- breakfasts, parades, dinners and the traditional fly-by on horseback tionally leave town that week on vacation. The whole community comes to begin the rodeos. together to promote western heritage and the western way of life.” But that’s all in a day’s work for Miss Frontier, who learned the value Daughter Sara Rangitsch, Wyoming, holds the title of 2015 Miss of work and the West from an early age. “I remember watching the Frontier, the well-trained horsewomen who serve as ambassadors for Dandies from the first moment I went to a CFD rodeo. I knew I had the event along with the group of riders known as the Dandies, and to get involved ... I learned so much about myself and CFD,” Sara said, has been “all in” since she began riding in the parades at 5 years old. “I could never replace the skills I gained through being a Dandy.” couretsy of cheyenne frontier days

The Round-Up Royalty riders from Pendleton, Oregon, join in the parade at Cheyenne Frontier Days.

30 | summer 2015 Clockwise from left: Cheyenne Frontier Days includes a 10-day carnival; the world-class rodeo is truly the “Daddy of ‘Em All”; Indian Village hosts authentic dancing and storytelling; Sara Rangitsch, left, and her brother, Kurt, front.

Riding High Eight Kappas from Gamma Omicron, Wyoming, have held the title Miss Frontier, Mary Anna Klett Sims Barbara Ann Benton Ward Norma Jean Bell Morris Suzanne Hanes Brown reigning over Cheyenne 1941 1944 1949 1963 Frontier Days activities while donned in the traditional white buck- skin culottes costume. Norma and Marcy (both right) are mother and daughter. Norma’s father created the cattle drive that is a Cheyenne Frontier Days tradition still today. Kathleen Keefe Scott Nancy Borthwick Grote Marcy Morris Habbe Sara Rangitsch 1966 1977 1986 2015 clockwise from top left: couretsy of cheyenne frontier days (3); courtesy collett rangitsch; miss frontier photos courtesy cheyenne frontier days old west museum old west frontier days cheyenne miss frontier photos courtesy collett rangitsch; (3); courtesy frontier days of cheyenne clockwise from top left: couretsy

GET INVOLVED WWW.KAPPA.ORG | 31 Back to Basics As TEACH FOR AMERICA turns 25, the organization faces increased scrutiny to develop leaders who make the grade— both in the classroom and in the public eye.

By Kait Smith, Marist

ILLUSTRATION BY ROSS MACDONALD

32 | SUMMER 2015 GET INVOLVED WWW.KAPPA.ORG | 33 It was March 2014, and Mary McInerney, Purdue, had just been hired to teach high school biology as a member of Teach For America’s West Dallas corps.

Mary had majored in biology and health sciences—not education—so she spent five weeks at Teach For America’s summer institute, learn- ing best practices to survive in the classroom. As the first day of class approached, Mary was given a tour of the school where she would teach; it was the final item on a summer-long TFA to-do list. When Mary located Room 125 and saw its designation—physics— the anxiety set in. The school’s assistant principal later confirmed the switch: Mary would be teaching physics, not biology. She had 14 days to prepare. It’s not uncommon for a teacher’s subject matter to change, even at the last minute. However, as a TFA corps member, Mary didn’t have years of experience to fall back on. Instead, she had five weeks of training and the promise of ongoing support. “I felt panicked,” says Mary. “I was absolutely terrified.” As Teach For America, a non-profit organization that recruits recent college graduates to teach in underserved communities throughout the U.S., has grown, so have the criticisms, with the kind of insufficient teacher preparation Mary experienced chief among them. Critics also argue that applicants are only interested in pad- ding their résumés, that they typically leave the profession after two years, and that they are stealing the jobs of veteran teachers without creating any benefits for the students. Elisa Villanueva Beard, DePauw, co-Chief Executive Officer of TFA, has heard these (and other) complaints. In fact, she welcomes them. “As a leader of this organization, I hold myself accountable and take full responsibility for the work that we do,” she says. That work includes delivering quality education to the United States’ neediest communities and developing the nation’s future leaders. The stakes are high. But for Elisa, there’s no ego. No excuses. No sticking to the number of communities impacted. Kopp led the organization as what’s always been done. CEO until 2013, when she stepped down and became chairman. Instead, she’s turning critiques into action. In 2014, President Barack Obama name-checked Teach For Teach For America began in 1989 as founder Wendy Kopp’s senior America when signing the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America thesis at Princeton University. Kopp’s paper detailed a plan of action to Act, which aimed to expand national service programs. Obama recruit top college graduates to teach in urban and rural schools, where cited TFA’s growth and enormous applicant pool—at the time, children face some of the nation’s greatest educational inequity. The 35,000 applications for 4,000 slots—as evidence that young goal: to inspire these future leaders to rally around the need for educa- Americans are interested in volunteering and service. tional equity by grounding them in the issues at the classroom level. Kopp decided to put her thesis into action. She began contacting Elisa first heard about TFA during her sopho- executives at major corporations to ask for them to fund a seed grant. more year of college—on the porch of the DePauw Kappa house, After a number of rejections, she was offered a $26,000 grant from of all places. TFA corps member Carla Gasbarra Lane, DePauw, Mobil. Additional grants from other investors and partners soon fol- had returned to campus and told Elisa the stories of her first year lowed, and by 1990, Kopp had hired a few hundred teachers, forming in the classroom. In her 2013 commencement speech to graduates allison v. smith Teach For America’s very first corps. of DePauw University, Elisa recalled that moment. “I heard her talk Ten years later, the organization began a period of rapid growth. From about the challenges her students were facing and how she was 2000 to 2014, TFA experienced increases in its numbers across the really digging in to ensure that she was changing things for them.” board—applications received, corps members hired, total alumni and Carla’s story sparked Elisa’s interest in joining the movement.

34 | SUMMER 2015 “To make a meaningful impact, we have to be relevant to the community,” says Elisa. As the organization has grown, now serving 50 communities and 750,000 students, it has become decentralized. These days, decisions are being made on a local level, ensuring the unique needs of each school, community and student are being addressed by those who know and understand them best. In a now well-known editorial in The Atlantic, titled “I Quit Teach For America,” former corps member Olivia Blanchard argued that TFA’s “national institute” train- ing model—providing the same training to every corps member in spite of their final placement—was one of the organization’s biggest shortcomings. Moving forward, says Elisa, incoming teachers will be trained in their region, giving them earlier opportu- nities to connect with their community and the children they’ll teach. Additional support and training for teachers is another focal point of TFA’s evolution. Two pilot programs have been implemented to better prepare corps mem- bers for their initial year in the classroom. The first of these pilot programs provides additional preparation for college juniors accepted into TFA. “We hope to build skills [in these juniors] around the things we know our teachers need to be effective,” says Elisa. “The idea is to figure out what we learn when people have an additional year of training— are they getting the support they need?” The second pilot program focuses on teachers who stay beyond their two-year commitment. “When people leave the “It hit me like a lightning bolt. I knew I had to be a part of that team, organization, they feel they aren’t getting additional support, pro- fighting for kids every day.” fessional development and inspiration,” says Elisa. To remedy these And so began Elisa’s journey in TFA. In her time with the orga- concerns, new initiatives have been introduced to provide support nization, she has served as a corps member, as executive director of to third-, fourth- and fifth-year teachers, and connect them with one her region and as chief operating officer—before assuming her cur- another for continued growth, development and motivation and to rent role as co-chief executive officer in 2013. Along with co-CEO accelerate impact in the classroom. Matt Kramer, Elisa now faces the challenge of responding to public Another tactical change TFA is implementing promotes an emphasis criticism of TFA and improving the organization and the lives of the on cultural competency: the ability to interact effectively with those from children it impacts. different cultures and socio-economic backgrounds. It’s an area where many critics have claimed TFA is severely lacking. “Understanding cul- In March of 2014, Elisa and Matt addressed several thou- ture is critical,” says Elisa. “We’ve always focused on diversity, but we sand TFA community members at the very first “What’s Next for want to ensure the teachers we recruit reflect the students they teach.” Teach For America” event. Over the past two years, Elisa says TFA leadership has doubled “We are acknowledging our shortcomings and are starting to work down and made cultural competency a focus of its training. The to address them,” Elisa told the audience. “The thoughtful, critical goal is to “help teachers determine issues surrounding their iden- feedback we get is a gift, and it’s helping us evolve.” tities, discover limitations of what they bring to the classroom, and Three tactical changes have been key to TFA’s evolution. The larg- how to view their communities in an asset-based way to focus on the est shift involves the structure of the entire organization. strengths of their students.”

GET INVOLVED WWW.KAPPA.ORG | 35 After two years of teaching with TFA, Justin Dunham is now a facilitator in the Darlington, South Carolina, school system. Here Justin helps students in his Gentlemen’s Club learn to tie a tie.

Although she received her TFA training before these new initia- tives were launched, Alison Candamil, Marist, says the exploration “We are acknowledging our shortcom- of cultural competency was one of the most valuable lessons she ings—and are starting to work to address learned during her training at the TFA institute. “You face a real internal struggle during your first year as a teacher,” says Alison. them,” Elisa told the audience. “The “Being able to explore your own biases—and why it’s so important to thoughtful, critical feedback we get is a set your expectations cognizant of these biases—was incredibly valu- able. Without it, I would have made excuses for my students.” gift, and it’s helping us evolve.” While this type of focus ultimately helps teachers, it does even more for students. “We’re hoping to meet kids halfway,” Elisa says of the cultural competence focus. “We want to leave classrooms in a still teaching—the hope is those who leave the profession aren’t aban- way that allows kids to flourish and love learning.” doning the mission completely. Mary recovered from the initial shock of her last-minute biolo- Teach For America’s mission, and the changes it gy-to-physics subject change with the help of fellow corps members is implementing, focuses on transforming the lives of those affected and institutional support from TFA. Still, she’s one of those corps most by educational inequity: students. members who is unsure about continuing her career in education. Alison taught as a TFA corps member from 2008–2009 in New York As she wraps up her first year, her short-term plans are to return to City. Though she now works as a Leadership Resident for Success the classroom. Academy Charter Schools, she remains in touch with students she taught “For now, I am working very hard on a job that can be exhausting during her TFA tenure, including a student from her very first class. in so many ways but is still exceedingly rewarding,” she says. Long “He always reports to me on his grades, let’s me know he’s making term? Perhaps she’ll pursue her ambition of becoming a physician’s good choices,” says Alison. “I think it’s a testament to knowing I was assistant. But she knows she’ll never give up on being an advocate for truly invested in his education. He knows I care.” education. “My students are my absolute heroes and make me a bet- It’s that level of impact that TFA corps members strive for, and it’s ter person every time they walk into the classroom,” says Mary. “This what Elisa views as the greatest impact on students long term. “The more is an experience I’ll carry with me for the rest of my life.” we work on ourselves to become more effective and better astute to be It’s exactly the kind of outcome Elisa wants. “We need people tack- prepared for teaching—which is really hard, no matter your training and ling the problem from every angle,” says Elisa. Every angle includes courtesy of teach for america preparation—the more we benefit and impact students,” she says. senators advocating for educational equity. And doctors working in As for the argument that TFA teachers leave after their commit- low-income communities. And entrepreneurs solving social issues. ment is complete? Elisa says such critics are missing the point. And social workers, school administrators and lawyers. And beyond. “Our theory of action is not to create lifelong teachers; that’s not In short, says Elisa, “We are breeding the next set of leaders who going to solve the problem,” says Elisa. While many TFA corps mem- are going to decide that there is a different narrative to be written for bers stay beyond their two-year commitment—50 percent stay for a children growing up in these communities. And we are going to stop third year, and just under one-third of the organization’s alumni are at nothing until we get there.”

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38 | summer 2015 A Tony Award-Winning Actress Class Act

Inspired by Broadway as a young girl, Michele Pawk shares her gift of acting, whether on stage or teaching in the Wagner College theater department. —By Laura Vinci, Kansas

photo by Chris Sorensen

At a student rehearsal for northern tip of Staten Island. “I was astonished that there an upcoming Wagner College Michele’s students literally was a girl who came from where performance of Merrily We can peer out of their windows I was from,” Michele says. Roll Along, the theater on and see New York City. If “When you come from a small Staten Island is bursting with they squint, they even may be place, you don’t dream. This energy: 15 students are ready to able to make out the lights of performance made me dream.” rehearse. There is piano music Broadway … though they’re The show didn’t go off with- in the background, one student more likely to simply hop on a out a hitch, much to Michele’s in a tutu is twirling about the ferry, which will deliver them delight. A fire alarm in the rehearsal space, and another to the Theater District in just theater forced the show to come group of students huddles under an hour. These students to a halt midway and every- together singing. Within reach are lucky, too: They get to work one—actors, crew and audience of New York City, it’s this with an inspired, veteran actress members—to evacuate. “The kind of energy that sparked every day. Michele teaches them streets were full of skimpily clad Tony-Award-winning actress techniques, inspires them with girls chatting with tourists! It Michele Pawk, Allegheny, to stories from her career and was magical,” Michele recalls. pursue her own dream of a encourages them to dream big. As the crowd intermingled, career in theater. The cast— Michele fell in love with the Michele and her father found Michele included—starts with theater as a young girl growing the actress from Pittsburgh and a warm-up of stretches, theater up in Butler, Pennsylvia, a small struck up a conversation with trivia questions, pliés, kick- town outside of Pittsburgh. her. “I told her I was an actress, boxing moves and occasional Michele and her father, Michael too. She was very kind to me and cheers. One student suggests a “Doc” Lowell Pawk, often visited told me to keep working. And dance party, and Michele is the New York City and attended my dream seemed possible after first to jump in. Broadway shows. It was during having met her.” When the play Michele still calls the bright one of these trips in the early resumed, Michele remembers lights of the stage—and screens, 1980s that Doc bought tickets watching her new acquaintance both big and small—home. But to 42nd Street, featuring the on stage. “It felt like she gave the off stage, in her role as associ- original company. Michele was performance for us,” she says. ate professor of theater arts at star-struck by the actors on stage. Even though Michele was Wagner College, Michele calls But as she leafed through the frequently on stage in high school herself lucky to share her pas- Playbill, she noticed that one and college, she wasn’t certain sion with her students. member of the company hailed she wanted to make acting her Wagner is a small, liberal from Pittsburgh—so close to profession. As a sophomore arts institution that sits on the Michele’s own small hometown. at Allegheny College, she was

| 39 required to declare a major. projects. The best part for Michele hadn’t made a decision, Michele was Burnett’s generous so she turned to her father spirit. “I’ve met a lot of iconic fig- for advice. ures. Not always do they live up “He asked me ‘What do you to expectations. Carol did. She love to do more than anything?’” exceeded them,” Michele says. Michele’s answer? “Being on Michele’s portrayal of an stage.” Her father encouraged ambitious alcoholic writer (a her, telling her, “Dream it; then character based on Burnett’s own try to live it.” Michele took mother) won her the 2003 Tony her father’s advice to turn her Award as Best Featured Actress dream into a life. She auditioned in a play. “I had absolutely no and was accepted at the College expectation of winning,” Michele Conservatory of Music at the recalls, laughing. “Unbeknownst University of Cincinnati. She to me, my entire family had transferred that same year. bought tickets to the ceremony Michele calls her first job and was seated in the balcony at after college a “gift”—from the Radio City Music Hall. If you lis- world’s most famous mouse. ten to a recording of when they Michele landed a position called my name for Best Featured at Walt Disney World, per- Actress, you can hear my family forming twice a night in screaming.” the Contemporary Hotel’s Back at rehearsal for Wagner’s Broadway Revue. “That year student production of Merrily How I Spent My Summer Vacation was magical,” Michele remem- We Roll Along, Michele is open to bers. The magic soon gave her all suggestions. She instructs the confidence to push ahead. After students to start “from the top,” a year in Florida, she moved and they begin their focus on Act Internships of north to New York to chase her One. As each run-through draws dream of being on Broadway. to a close, Michele provides feed- a Lifetime Michele made her Broadway back that challenges her students, debut in 1988 in the musical, encouraging them to probe the Mail. In 1992, her work in the meanings behind their roles and In her book Summer at Tiffany, MarjorieJacobsonHart, Iowa, Gershwin-inspired produc- to deeply consider why a charac- arrives in New York City in the summer of 1945 eager, but jobless. tion Crazy for You earned her ter might behave in a certain way. She lands a position as a page at Tiffany’s, calling it the “job of a nomination for the presti- “We’ll open the script together a lifetime.” Kappas are still passing their summers interning or gious Drama Desk Award as and figure it out together,” she traveling. Check out 10 of this summer’s exceptional internships, Outstanding Featured Actress tells them patiently. submitted via Instagram: in a Musical. From there she Over the course of her career, went on to appear in a number of Michele has acted and directed, successful revivals and original starred and supported, taught Horticulture are buildings for Amazon. They plays—including Chicago (1996), and been taught. When asked Ball Horticultural Company are 41+ stories tall!” Cabaret (1998), Seussical which role is her favorite one, Chicago  —MadelineRumpf, (2000), Mamma Mia! (2006), she replies, “They inform “As a research intern, I’ll be Washington State and Hairspray (2007). She has each other. I am a better actor developing new types of flow- appeared on television in All because I teach; I am a bet- ers and helping to determine engineering My Children, Golden Girls, all ter teacher because I act.” As which ones should be launched Marathon Oil Corporation three versions of Law and Order Michele explains, her students in the market.” San Antonio, Texas (among others) and films includ- are “seekers and want to make  —KatieShort, “As a productions engineering ing Jeffrey and Anastasia. a better world. I love teaching Michigan State intern, I get to work on site and

Michele counts her work them because they teach me,” even give a presentation to the fox 2000 pictures with the iconic Carol Burnett in she says. “When we open up a arcHitecture executive board in Houston at the early 2000s on the original script, we learn about the char- Sellen Construction the end of the summer.” production of Hollywood Arms acters, the plot and the emotions Seattle, Washington  —AlliBuettner, among her most cherished together. We’re in it together.” “The projects I am working on Texas A&M

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helping members of the pavilion who are business men and women well established in the film industry. Other aspects of my internship included attend- ing screenings at the festival, two red carpet premieres and networking.”  —CarolineKeller, Tulane

Medicine Yale School of Medicine New Haven, Conn. “I’m doing pathology research that hopefully will lead to more specific treatments and a better understanding of cancer overall.”  —HannahTruong, Yale nonProfit Make-A-Wish® America Barb Brown of Bloomington takes her father, Lee Short, for a ride on Phoenix, Arizona Constitution trail with a DUet wheelchair bike. conservation “I am the annual giving and Yellowstone National Park donor relations intern. I will worth a mention Bozeman, Montana be a contributor to numerous I’ll be participating in a field fundraising and donor relations study of threatened and endan- initiatives and will market and I Pedal for You gered species such as grizzly cultivate relationships with — •— bears, grey wolves and bison. potential donors.” after using cycling to regain her strength  —EmmaGlass,  —QuinnBarker, UC Santa Barbara Kansas State as a cancer survivor, Barbara Short Brown, Illinois Wesleyan, created healing fashion governMent rides in Bloomington, illinois, as her way Christian Louboutin U.S. House of Representatives of “giving back for surviving.” these DUet New York City Washington, D.C. “I am working in the press “I give tours of the Capitol, reply wheelchair bikes are pedaled by certified office of Christian Louboutin to mail, answer phone calls and volunteers and provide the opportunity for the summer as a press and get to know different towns in for elderly citizens and individuals with communications intern. I work the constituency.” disabilities and illnesses to experience on presentations, press releases,  —LindsayBratun, shipments, sample and credit South Carolina the benefits of outdoor recreation. the requests, administrative tasks, DUet wheelchair bike is an orthopedically and tracking media and social ProfessionaL shaped fiberglass wheelchair attached to media for the brand.” footbaLL  —MelyssaGranat, Minnesota Vikings the back half of a bicycle. they are made George Washington Mankato, Minnesota in the netherlands and distributed in the “I work as a public relations U.S. through Frank mobility Systems inc., fiLM intern for the Minnesota in oakdale, Pennsylvania. healing rides Cannes Film Festival Vikings and will be living and Cannes, France working at their training camp has two DUets and hopes to acquire “I worked in the American with the team.” additional bikes. Pavilion at the membership  —SarahHan,

lenore sobota, the pantagraph sobota, lenore desk. My internship consisted of Minnesota

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MONMOUTH Founder’s Home Gets a Facelift

This year has been a big one for The Stewart House. Located in Monmouth, Illinois, the 1865 prairie-style Victorian home of Founder Minnie Stewart just celebrated its 150th birthday, as well as a newly renovated sec- ond floor and enclosed porch. In 2012, The Stewart House Message from the President underwent an energy audit, which revealed the need for new insulation, windows, wir- ing, improved lighting and an Necessary Conversations upgraded heating and cooling unit to make the space energy efficient. When deciding to

Since Rolling Stone catapulted the topic of sexual violence into the nation- renovate, Museum Curator from left: Kappa kappa gamma (2); photo provided by hye jun lee al spotlight last November, there hasn’t been a single day when I haven’t Kylie Towers Smith, Simpson, thought about this scary, messy and exceedingly difficult subject. It’s been said the Museums Committee wanted to make the space more on the agenda of every conference I’ve attended this year, Fraternity Coun- serviceable. The first step was cil has had ongoing conversations about gender violence, and I couldn’t to convert the second floor even begin to quantify the number of hours I’ve spent thinking about and into a resident director’s suite, discussing this issue. including a bedroom, bathroom and sitting room. Next, three Everyone is scrambling for answers. What kind of preventative education guest bedrooms were renovated. and programming should we be providing? How can we help each other Finally, the sleeping porch was support victims of sexual crimes? Who should be responsible for assisting transformed into an office for the resident director, making a survivor after an act of gender violence? the house a functional, forward- Even though this discussion can feel really overwhelming, I’m glad we’re talking. thinking space. —By Beth Uphoff Black, Illinois Wesleyan Home renovations are always

42 | SUMMER 2015 the second floor of Minnie Stewart’s home was renovated this summer.

Headquarters each member and an app,” says GIN to send a group text to ac- Libbi Rettew Vynalek, Virginia tive members during a shooting GIN Is In Tech, Membership Services. near the campus in May 2014. The websites give chapters Thanks to GIN it was quickly In 2015, nearly all of Kappa’s the opportunity to show the determined that all members chapters launched new websites difference they make through were safe. “I think sending a thanks to the partnership with posts and photos highlighting text blast through GIN was the Group Interactive Networks awards, honors, chapter goals, most efficient way we could (GIN). The platform is also philanthropy events and more. have handled this situation. Any available to alumna groups, For example, the site created other method would’ve taken which are creating their new by Gamma Gamma, Whitman longer for girls to see. I think GIN websites too. (whitman.kappa.org), showcases it made girls feel safe since “The GIN System has so six photo albums from philan- they instantly knew we were much next-generation tech- thropy, social and sisterhood checking on them,” says Alexa nology to offer to our members events, which provide a sense of Dickinson, UC Santa Barbara. adventures and this one was no such as: streamlined website what life is like for the chapter. Future updates to GIN will exception. While no treasures templates that keep our brand GIN not only makes it simple include Google Drive integra- were found in the 150-year old consistent (while still giving the to have an engaging website, but tion, the ability to log and track walls, the workers did uncover ability to personalize), a com- it also offers efficient communi- study hours and push notifica- and remove some past residents: munication center with mass cations during a crisis. Epsilon tion capability. mummified mice. email and texting, schedules for Psi, UC Santa Barbara, used —Sarah Kropp, Allegheny The Museums Committee is confident they achieved a design that maintains structural strength and historical integ- rity, while breathing new life into the home. The contractor provided artisanal workmanship by matching all cabinets and hardwood floors upstairs with the original woodwork in the downstairs. Many tactics employed in the renovation can be used in any home renovation, like the use of oiled bronze hardware on doors and cabinets, which enhance the classic and warm feel of the rooms, even in the smallest details. Mixing antique accesso- ries with fresh, modern bedding, like the monogrammed pillows, sheets, and coverlets from New Orleans-based Leotine Linens In the Gallery in one of the guest rooms, is another delightful way to merge past with present. Dot Dot Dot Now that the renovation is — •— complete, Kylie believes the Hye Jun Lee, NYU, gets dotty at the Obliteration room’s installation changes have elevated the museum with a new sense of at the David Zwirner Gallery. Originally all white, patrons are given place. “It gives you a sense of his- free reign to place colorful dots anywhere. this is the first time artisty ayoi tory and why it’s meaningful.” Kusama’s installation has been in the U.S. —Lauren Bellatti, Oklahoma State

get involved www.kappa.org | 43 company that produces func- Irene Gaskins tional and fashionable medical Idaho. Irene is the 2014 dressings for the chronically recipient of the Janet L. Hoopes ill, after living with Lyme dis- Award, which was presented at ease since 2007. PICCPerfect the 36th Annual Fall Conference makes PICC line covers that of The Pennsylvania Branch are comfortable, hygienic and of The International Dyslexia safe while also stylish. Long Association. Irene is the founder term, the company plans to and was head emerita of create medical accessories Benchmark School in Media, Pa. for other devices, such as Under her guidance, Benchmark diabetes pumps, canes and has implemented many suc- oxygen tanks. cessful programs that have helped thousands of students Mandi Kane become proficient readers and New Mexico. Mandi was learners who have progressed named one of New Mexico’s to become leaders in the fields keyACHIEVEMENTS 2015 Women of Influence by of education, medicine, law, the Albuquerque Business First, arts, business and engineer- after receiving certification ing. The award is presented to Kristen Collier Wright recently completed her Ed.D. as a football agent by the an individual in Pennsylvania Arkansas. Kristen is the senior in Early Childhood Education Canadian Football League or Delaware who has made a vice president, general counsel at UNT and is in her second Players Association. As the significant contribution to the and secretary at AutoZone, a year of teaching for Texas president of Game Face Public education of those with learning leading distributor of automo- A&M University-Commerce. Relations in Santa Fe, she is differences. tive parts and accessories in the Currently, she is co-president one of just six women agents U.S. She is also a member of the of the Dallas Association for the in the League. Mandi is also Morgan Giddings board of directors of SFC Elves, Education of Young Children a member of the Rape and Cummings Inc., a charitable organization and was named the Texas Incest National Network Washington State. that provides toys during the AEYC’s 2014 Teacher Educator (RAINN) speakers bureau and Co-founders Morgan and Kyle holidays to more than 650 needy of the Year. often speaks to groups and McFarland created Piper, a children in rural Arkansas. media outlets throughout the cloud-based platform for both Emily Levy country about issues that are retailers and consumers that Dr. Karen Elledge Walker Babson. In 2015, Emily related to prevention of automatically captures transac- North Texas. Karen co-founded PICCPerfect, a sexual assault. tion receipt data all in one place. Piper was chosen to represent the U.S. at the 2014 Startup Nations International Summit VoluNTEEr SpoTlIgHT in Seoul, South Korea. Morgan NaNCy BoyNtoN BoGaN, LSU is currently the CEO of Piper • and was featured in Bisnow’s DC — — Tech 40 under 40 in 2015. Nancy has served as a volunteer for Kappa Kappa gamma for over 30 years. Rebecca Powelson She has been an adviser to Delta Iota, Miami. Rebecca was selected as LSU, and most recently House Board American Airlines Road Warrior for 2014. She was also asked to president. A former social worker, Nancy be its first military ambassador and her family live close to the lSu to serve as a civilian liaison, campus. “I enjoy being with alumnae representing all the veterans initiatives the airline sponsors. and members of the chapter,” Nancy Rebecca is the vice president of says. “It keeps me active and involved sales and marketing for Atlas with young people and I enjoy seeing the Imports, a wine company, and group succeed.” Nancy also volunteers lives in Chicago. at St. James Episcopal Church and as a Susan Burner Resko reading buddy in the public schools. Miami (Ohio). Susan is the new executive director of LIFT-Chicago, a region of the

44 | summer 2015 national nonprofit organization United Health Group in order helping community members to give business advice. She achieve economic stability previously published Is This and well-being. LIFT-Chicago Seat Taken: Random Encounters pairs community members that Change Your Life in 2011. with volunteer advocates to Kristin was a featured author build the personal, social and at the Little Rock Alumnae financial foundations they Association’s Opening Doors to need to get jobs, safe homes Literacy luncheon, which bene- and quality educations. Susan fited Literacy Action of Central was a vice president at Harris Arkansas. Trust and Savings Bank before transitioning into a career in carol Rigsby Wendle nonprofit with The Balanced Idaho. Whitworth College, Mind Foundation, a national Spokane, Washington, parent network for children recently honored Carol with with severe mental health a Distinguished Community challenges, and she eventually Service Award for 40 years became the organization’s of community and volunteer executive director. education initiatives. Carol served on the Spokane Public ellen seideman Byron Schools board for 11 years, was a Tulane. Ellen’s novel, founding member of Spokane’s Maggie Heyn RicHaRdson, Plantation Shudders: A Cajun Chase Youth Commission, was Country Mystery, will be a member of Whitworth’s board GeorGe WashinGton published in August 2015 by of trustees, and served with — •— Crooked Lane Books. Ellen the Joint Center for Higher Hungry for Louisiana: drew on her time as a Tulane Education. Carol currently In her new book, Kappa as an inspiration for the serves as a trustee for the An Omnivore’s Journey, Maggie Heyn book. She is currently writing Hutton Settlement. She is also a Richardson takes the reader on a tour of the second book in the series, recipient of the YWCA Woman Louisiana food through its cooks, culture, where she shares that a charac- of Achievement for Education ter is a Kappa. Ellen previously Award, the PTA Outstanding history and agronomy. Warning: Do not worked as a television writer Service Award and the Golden read this book on an empty stomach! for sitcoms like Wings and Just Acorn PTA Award. Maggie highlights eight of the state’s Shoot Me. She has also pub- most representative foods: crawfish, jam- lished more than 200 articles in Virginia anding La national publications ranging charité balaya, snoballs, Creole cream cheese, file’, from Redbook to TV Guide to Los William & Mary. Gini pub- blood boudin, tamales and oysters. Each Angeles magazine. She recently lished A Patchwork of Old Spies, food is featured in an essay describing its served on the Editorial Board a sequel to her 2014 novel A for the UCLA Writers Program’s Case for Old Spies. Gini earned cultural value and history with personal books, Cut to the Chase and her doctorate at the University recollections and a recipe. Think a snow Inside the Room. Her plays, of Pennsylvania and taught cone is just ice and flavored syrup? A New published by Dramatists Play at the College of William & Orleans snoball is steeped in chemistry and Service, include Graceland and Mary, the University of North Asleep on the Wind. Carolina at Chapel Hill and the tradition. The search for shaved ice resem- University of Kentucky. She bling snow with the combination of intri- Kristin s. Kaufman is the author of four books on cate flavors in a sugar-based simple syrup is Arkansas. Kristin published nineteenth- and twentieth-cen- a Louisiana tradition. Is This Seat Taken: It’s Never tury French poetry, and her Too Late to Find the Right Seat contributions to French culture Maggie is an award-winning reporter cov- in January 2015. Kristin is also have earned awards from ering the food and culture of Louisiana for the founder of Alignment, Inc., the French government. She national outlets as well as regional publica- an organization that works also founded French Forum, a with companies and individuals journal that publishes scholarly tions. A Louisiana transplant, she married a to create sustainable success. A articles about French literature, Louisiana native and they are raising their leadership coach, Kristin drew with the help of her husband. three children in Baton Rouge. on her years of corporate expe- Gini received Kappa’s Alumnae rience at Hewlett Packard and Achievement Award in 1990.

get involved www.kappa.org | 45 * Adelphi College Klebe, Carolyn Foust, ‘67, d. 7/13 Lewis, Ethel Schroeder, ‘38, d. 3/06 Tennyson, Shirley Forward, ‘44, d. 1/15 * Adrian College Cincinnati, University of Foster, Elizabeth Davisson, ‘35, d. 9/06 Buchert, Patricia Montgomery, ‘39, d. 3/12 Riedel, Barbara Chesnut, ‘41, d. 1/15 Dewert, Jacquelyn, ‘69, d. 12/11 Akron, University of Feisley, Marian Gorsuch, ‘44, d. 11/14 Gore, Virginia Cohn, ‘28, d. 12/09 Groll, Katherine Heitzman, ‘40, d. 2/12 Kovacevich, Dorothy Antof, ‘50, d. 12/14 Harbison, Margaret Schulkers, ‘70, d. 6/07 Kroeger, Genevieve Sennett, ‘34, d. 2/09 Kahanamoku, Mary Kemp, ‘34, d. 12/14 Rowland, Virginia, ‘30, d. 3/07 McDonald, Betty Zimmerman, ‘33, d. 2/08 IN Wheeler, Marjory Billow, ‘40, d. 9/08 Norris, Betty Malley, ‘38, d. 12/09 Sahnd, Betty Baiter, ‘39, d. 8/12 Alabama, University of Young, Carol Kattus, ‘38, d. 1/13 Bailey, Penelope Potts, ‘45, d. 2/15 Crenshaw, Victoria Darby, ‘79, d. 2/15 Clemson University Edwards, Jacquelyn Taylor, ‘51, d. 2/15 Pollock, Terrell Moore, ‘76, d. 4/14 memorıam Ford, Josie Palmer, ‘39, d. 6/12 Colorado College Hiles, Jean Clabaugh, ‘39, d. 2/15 Belt, Jean Combs, ‘38, d. 5/08 Stubbs, Jean Mollohan, ‘57, d. 3/15 Iowa State University Morrison, Mallie White, ‘40, d. 3/08 Chamberlain, Martha Phillips, ‘36, d. 10/06 Walsh, Rosemary Murphy, ‘66, d. 2/14 McGrew, Kay Wiley, ‘61, d. 12/14 Penfield, Beverly Andrews, ‘49, d. 7/14 Hutchinson, Ruth Smith, ‘39, d. 7/10 Wrather, Catherine, ‘41, d. 3/07 Moore, Shirley Mayer, ‘47, d. 5/07 Privett, Margaret Beery, ‘32, d. 12/14 Jennings, Barbara Ehler, ‘44, d. 1/15 Georgia, University of Iowa, University of Sargent, Helen Johnston, ‘63, d. 1/15 Lynch, Lucy Cristy, ‘62, d. 3/14 Hodges, Brennan Dougherty, ‘73, d. 10/14 Ausich, Sarah Tubbs, ‘38, d. 11/11 Stevens, Patricia Boggess, ‘44, d. 1/09 Row, Stephanie, ‘61, d. 12/13 Marsh, Jan Jones, ‘74, d. 3/15 Brown, Grace Vernon, ‘26, d. 7/10 Turner, Alberta Whiteside, ‘38, d. 3/15 Russell, Mary Ann Sullivan, ‘46, d. 1/15 Parker, Ashley Benton, ‘86, d. 6/14 Grimes, Ruth Thompson, ‘36, d. 1/10 Terry, Helen Copenhaver, ‘48, d. 1/15 Allegheny College * Goucher College Jensen, Nancy Wilson, ‘49, d. 4/14 Colorado, University of Avetta, Janet Tiffany, ‘45, d. 1/14 Lytle, Barbara Elberfeld, ‘33, d. 12/09 McHugh, Nancy Green, ‘45, d. 1/15 Brooke, Ann Morrison, ‘24, d. 11/07 Allen, Harriet Rathbun, ‘33, d. 1/07 Thompson, Anna Jo Davis, ‘40, d. 11/07 Kansas State University Campbell, Dorothy Konstanzer, ‘39, Cumming, Virginia Nelson, ‘32, d. 10/10 Travis, Elizabeth Miller, ‘35, d. 12/12 Albright, Margaret Coffman, ‘35, d. 7/08 d. 12/13 Horne, Ardith Porter, ‘47, d. 5/13 Aug, Patricia Coots, ‘50, d. 2/14 Carlson, Jean Holman, ‘31, d. 4/08 Rice, Marie Mc Govern, ‘40, d. 7/08 Harvard University Brock, Betty Jenkins, ‘40, d. 11/07 Drake, Jeanette Schiek, ‘24, d. 2/06 Rue, Haley, d. 7/14 *Connecticut, University of Cossman, Donna Tipton, ‘49, d. 1/10 Metzger, Beatrice Broomall, ‘36, d. 7/12 Neff, Claire DuBeau, ‘42, d. 1/15 Hillsdale College Farrell, Adaline Byrd, ‘35, d. 8/09 Scheib, Sharon Engstrom, ‘64, d. 3/15 Spiller, Nancy Giesen, ‘44, d. 1/10 Corcoran, Rosemary Whiting, ‘37, d. 4/13 Harry, Margaret Moon, ‘38, d. 12/08 Williams, Jeannette Hirschman, ‘36, d. 3/15 Tetmeyer, Sue Aughinbaugh, ‘57, d. 3/15 Curto, Irene Frankenberg, ‘40, d. 8/09 Johnson, Paula Jennings, ‘61, d. 1/15 Arizona, University of Cornell University Fenton, Elizabeth Newcomer, ‘30, d. 6/03 Matthaei, Marjorie Higgins, ‘39, d. 3/08 Attebury, Julianne Johnson, ‘48, d. 5/08 Biddison, Barbara Wight, ‘31, d. 2/15 Frye, Jean Rennie, ‘40, d. 10/14 McCord, Anna Owensby, ‘35, d. 5/12 Coleman, Joann Mc Naghten, ‘45, d. 12/13 Jacobsen, Ellen Cook, ‘39, d. 8/13 Kittle, France, ‘40, d. 2/06 Reiter, Helen Conley, ‘31, d. 12/13 Manss, Barbara Kruttschnitt, ‘28, d. 10/06 Kaiser, Ann Baskett, ‘52, d. 12/14 McCririe, Joanne Sharp, ‘54, d. 11/08 Sheldon, Dee Ann Freidenberger, ‘63, Perkins, Frances Rhodes, ‘35, d. 6/07 MacVeagh, Patricia Williams, ‘48, d. 4/14 Meredith, Winifred Welch, ‘55, d. 4/14 d. 8/14 Rhew, Elizabeth Bradfield, ‘36, d. 7/08 Richards, Margaret Brodie, ‘45, d. 3/15 Thomas, Jessie Dodson, ‘50, d. 12/14 Rowe, Sally Sancet, ‘52, d. 10/13 Denison University Vincent, Winifred Seneff, ‘37, d. 3/07 Anderson, Judith Hosner, ‘63, d. 12/13 Kansas, University of Arkansas, University of Carroll, Louise Darrow, ‘58, d. 2/08 Idaho, University of Barrier, Mary Brosius, ‘39, d. 1/15 Ellis, Betty Leeper, ‘46, d. 12/14 Caswell, Pamela Berry, ‘54, d. 12/14 Abrahamson, Essamary Parker, ‘39, d. 3/13 Bruno, Dorothy Newlon, ‘40, d. 1/10 Hawkins, Helen Haxton, ‘45, d. 3/15 Critz, Dorothy Mercer, ‘28, d. 8/13 Anderberg, Susan Felgenhauer, ‘73, Cooper, Jane Crosby, ‘56, d. 1/15 Raney, Carolyn Wagley, ‘39, d. 6/13 Devore, Carol Deverna, ‘53, d. 2/15 d. 6/14 Cray, Laura Shutz, ‘53, d. 1/15 Ratcliff, Mary Cosgrove, ‘45, d. 8/11 Heinlein, Dorothy Martin, ‘33, d. 1/10 Andrews, Ann Larue, ‘36, d. 2/11 Fletcher, Betsey Sheidley, ‘47, d. 1/15 Stapleton, Jackie Geren, ‘40, d. 2/13 Holshuh, Virginia Young, ‘41, d. 6/14 Glenn, Marcia Gwinn, ‘40, d. 10/14 Geiger, Lura Smith, ‘41, d. 4/09 Wilkins, Virginia, ‘41, d. 8/12 King, Virginia Hubach, ‘38, d. 6/09 Green, Kathryn Ayers, ‘39, d. 1/15 Jenkins, Dorothy Breidenthal, ‘33, d. 1/09 Baylor University Laurin, Jean Rehnquist, ‘46, d. 1/14 Hawley, Frances Redmond, ‘39, d. 11/06 Marshall, Jean Bailey, ‘37, d. 4/07 Gideon, Louan, ‘77, d. 2/14 Meibuhr, Mabel Brewer, ‘36, d. 1/15 Moore, Virginia Galloway, ‘37, d. 5/07 Mosier, Deborah Johnson, ‘64, d. 12/13 Sturcken, Johnye Cannon, ‘77, d. 4/14 Miller, Joan Vokes, ‘40, d. 3/11 Munninghoff, Marion Larue, ‘34, d. 6/07 Nesselrode, Jane Waring, ‘37, d. 7/14 * Boston University Richards, Louise, ‘39, d. 10/13 Illinois Wesleyan University Pipkin, Olive Krehbiel, ‘35, d. 12/14 Beaver, Margaret Clark, ‘38, d. 2/15 Turner, Jeanne Stark, ‘40, d. 3/11 Black, Janice Robison, ‘38, d. 9/07 Kentucky, University of Goodwin, Avis Lundberg, ‘38, d. 12/14 DePauw University Holmes, Ruth Wilson, ‘37, d. 7/13 Brewer, Margaret Trent, ‘39, d. 10/12 Hall, Mary Dodds, ‘49, d. 10/11 Campbell, Jean Hayden, ‘30, d. 3/09 Hospelhorn, Rosanna Carter, ‘39, d. 9/13 Burroughs, Ann Clayton, ‘46, d. 3/15 Haus, Eleanor Laggis, ‘49, d. 1/08 Dugdale, Sara Schacht, ‘78, d. 2/15 Whitney, Helen Barnes, ‘37, d. 5/12 Caldwell, Elizabeth Williamson, ‘47, Steere, Rhoda Work, ‘33, d. 1/08 Wellbrock, Mary Crawshaw, ‘36, d. 12/14 Illinois, University of d. 3/06 Toth, Jean Adams, ‘40, d. 7/13 Young, Louise Thompson, ‘38, d. 8/08 Bailey, Clarabelle Mc Kinlay, ‘34, d. 5/09 Dade, Lucy Crenshaw, ‘40, d. 2/07 Butler University Dickinson College Camp, Barbara Boulware, ‘42, d. 3/15 Kayse, Mary Battle, ‘45, d. 11/14 Berry, Norma Sherrill, ‘51, d. 7/14 Joannides, Jan Kauffman, ‘80, d. 7/12 Collins, Georgia Bushnell, ‘48, d. 1/15 Langford, Ann Phelps, ‘34, d. 12/13 Crawford, Virginia Egan, ‘44, d. 2/14 Lawrence, Betty Garr, ‘41, d. 2/15 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7/09 Indiana University Prudhomme, Carolyn Pettiss, ‘48, d. 8/11 Clark, Polly Luchsinger, ‘40, d. 1/15 Hammond, Helen Roberson, ‘36, d. 6/13 Snapp, Elaine Clements, ‘38, d. 10/14 Copeland, Marion Tomlinson, ‘32, d. 1/09 Heimburger, Elizabeth Whitaker, ‘36, Baum, Elizabeth, ‘33, d. 3/13 Stambaugh, Althea Fuller, ‘40, d. 1/14 Crawford, Kate Abernethy, ‘56, d. 1/14 d. 12/09 Beardsley, Maryann Burge, ‘44, d. 1/15 Love, Marjorie Peet, ‘47, d. 12/14 McGlaughlin, Audrey Hance, ‘41, d. 12/14 Boehme, Sybil Burleigh, ‘39, d. 2/15 * Manitoba, University of Maclise, Flora Everding, ‘41, d. 11/14 Parke, Frances Kenner, ‘38, d. 1/15 Boggy, Martha Allman, ‘38, d. 5/10 Elders, Ruth Varley, ‘39, d. 7/14 Bohnslav, Patricia Pattee, ‘50, d. 11/14 Newell, Nancy Gwerder, ‘52, d. 2/15 Salisbury, Sara Covington, ‘46, d. 12/14 * Maryland, University of Rouse, Janet, ‘48, d. 2/15 Scott, Sarah Dabney, ‘39, d. 12/13 Boswell, Suzanne Harrold, ‘40, d. 4/09 Boyd, Alice Allman, ‘48, d. 3/15 Carrico, Katherine Davis, 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46 | summer 2015 Blanchard, Dorothy Holly, ‘44, d. 3/15 Regot, Janet Cobbs, ‘58, d. 12/09 Pepperdine University Tulane University Honan, Alexandria Bagg, ‘59, d. 2/15 Stoner, Marianna Sink, ‘59, d. 1/14 Lanza, Kristina, ‘98, d. 1/15 Bayle, Emily Friend, ‘55, d. 11/14 Miami University * North Dakota State University Pittsburgh, University of Hammack, Elisa, ‘77, d. 3/15 Evans, Louise, ‘40, d. 10/11 Akeley, Frances Probst, ‘34, d. 1/15 Buente, Nancy Sundstrom, ‘39, d. 12/09 Law, Penelope Hillyer, ‘61, d. 2/15 Hardacre, Constance Koepke, ‘55, d. 1/15 Bevier, Jeanne Kreiser, ‘37, d. 7/13 Harpster, Mary Hamilton, ‘55, d. 8/13 Roach, Elizabeth Spencer, ‘34, d. 2/15 Riggle, Sara Cousins, ‘43, d. 1/15 Lana, Roberta Gregg, ‘36, d. 2/13 Raymond, Betty Haldeman, ‘40, d. 1/11 Tulsa, University of Wachs, Mardee Dinerman, ‘58, d. 1/04 Raines, Patricia Lavelle, ‘38, d. 2/14 Rebhun, June Miller, ‘32, d. 10/09 Doherty, Patricia Heim, ‘56, d. 10/12 Williams, Audrey Little, ‘53, d. 10/14 Miami, University of Purdue University * U. of Arkansas @ Little Rock Fischer, Elaine Rheney, ‘38, d. 3/13 Northwestern University Coopman, Susan Alexander, ‘71, d. 12/14 Croom, Carolyn, ‘64, d. 9/14 Hall, Thelma, ‘40, d. 8/14 Cossum, Margaret Duthie, ‘19, d. 2/07 Fisher, Martha Spurgeon, ‘52, d. 3/15 Marqua, Mary Gamble, ‘41, d. 2/15 Hampton, Elizabeth Tomlinson, ‘35, Hovde, Karen Sorenson, ‘53, d. 2/15 Utah, University of Turner, Marcha Mac Farland, ‘60, d. 6/09 d. 8/10 Schultz, Betty Wedge, ‘41, d. 6/13 Bennett, Constance Mason, ‘66, d. 1/15 Bloom, Margaret Walden, ‘36, d. 9/12 Michigan State University Judge, Nancy Cordiner, ‘53, d. 4/14 * Rollins College Fruin, Carol Spackman, ‘48, d. 2/15 Chapman, Joan Strohm, ‘43, d. 5/14 Lilly, Nancy Vandeventer, ‘47, d. 1/15 Tierney, Barbara Brauer, ‘44, d. 5/14 Howe, Rowena Alexander, ‘40, d. 2/15 Connelly, Janet Harris, ‘55, d. 9/14 Rich, Doris Horder, ‘31, d. 5/08 Townsend, Jeryl Faulkner, ‘51, d. 1/15 Linton, Patricia Sutterby, ‘39, d. 10/08 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Tech Booker, Carolyn Hedley, ‘74, d. 9/09 Foot, Jean Hatcher, ‘34, d. 8/09 Harrison, Julia Forsythe, ‘51, d. 3/14 McCall, Rochelle Lenz, ‘92, d. 1/15 Crook, Shelley, ‘70, d. 2/13 Kirk, Mary Mac Cready, ‘38, d. 7/04 Morrison, Mary Lentz, ‘36, d. 1/11 Zoller, Linda, ‘87, d. 1/10 Ladu, Catherine Shilson, ‘43, d. 9/13 Robinson, Elizabeth Cartmell, ‘34, d. 5/08 Southern Methodist University Washington State University Spray, Barbara Olds, ‘40, d. 12/10 Rydman, Jean Storey, ‘36, d. 3/12 Cassell, Ellen Yates, ‘39, d. 6/12 Vogelreuter, Sally Goodyear, ‘47, d. 6/13 Smith, Corky Eikenbary, ‘67, d. 1/15 Cook, Early Fleming, ‘34, d. 10/08 Baldwin, Marjorie Lindley, ‘44, d. 1/15 Dochtermann, Nina Duggan, ‘40, d. 9/13 * Middlebury College Stevens, Jane Ward, ‘38, d. 12/13 Crosland, Lois Black, ‘37, d. 8/14 Evenoff, Jerrinne Valiquette, ‘52, d. 12/14 Hunsberger, Orpha Brown, ‘27, d. 12/06 Stein, Liz Smith, ‘44, d. 1/13 Dougherty, Edith Snoots, ‘56, d. 11/12 Hamill, Jeanne Scott, ‘35, d. 1/15 Marlow, Eleanor Bennett, ‘57, d. 2/13 Wentworth, Carolyn Mylander, ‘38, d. 5/11 Harper, Barbara Tucker, ‘42, d. 3/07 McLaughlin, Barbara Connor, ‘50, d. 2/13 Whitehead, Eve Marchman, ‘39, d. 3/11 Hawk, Hollie, ‘73, d. 3/15 Sandstrom, Jessie Tupper, ‘47, d. 4/14 Struble, Alma Davis, ‘32, d. 3/13 Williams, Mary Schleckman, ‘31, d. 7/08 Hawk, Peggy Parker, ‘42, d. 9/08 Washington University Nichols, Marian Obeirne, ‘38, d. 2/15 Minnesota, University of Ohio Wesleyan University Blaske, Ethel Jane Ellis, ‘36, d. 11/13 Parsons, Mary Anderson, ‘40, d. 1/08 Bangert, Suzanne Tenner, ‘64, d. 11/09 Bull, Mary Powers, ‘48, d. 3/14 Henderson, Margaret Houk, ‘39, d. 6/10 Cochran, Virginia Mason, ‘53, d. 1/15 Riley, Katharine Gregg, ‘32, d. 8/12 Hoffman, Eleanor Kraus, ‘32, d. 3/08 Heath, Evelyn Tingdale, ‘35, d. 4/10 Silberberg, Josephine Whatley, ‘43, d. 1/14 Kostelecky, Beatrice Barnard, ‘33, d. 3/07 Rhodes, Jane Scott, ‘38, d. 10/12 Keys, Katherine Stuart, ‘33, d. 9/10 Stroud, Mariella Burke, ‘34, d. 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get involved www.kappa.org | 47 recruiting women into sTem fields is a challenge for universities. While we don’t have a statistic for how many Kappas enter science, technology, engineering and mathematics, we know many have been pioneers of invention, giving us tools to improve our daily lives, like food sanitation and graphical calculators. Mary Engle Pennington, Pennsylvania, made her mark as a chemical bacteriologist and Edith Clarke, Wisconsin, filed patents in electric power and computing, before a remixSome things change ... Some stay the same computer as we know it existed. Mary Engle Pennington* Edith Clarke** Pennsylvania Facing off Vassar Class of 1892; Ph.D. 1895 {} Class of 1908; Wisconsin, Class of 1919 “The ice lady.” Not for her personality Also known as Professor Clarke (engineering) at but for her research and development in University of Texas at Austin, where she refrigeration for food safety. was the first woman to teach engineering in the department.

Be employed by the U.S. Department The first woman to Earn a Master of Science degree in of Agriculture. electrical engineering from MIT.

Redesigned the refrigerated boxcar Inventions Patent for graphical calculator in and improved sanitation of milk and 1925 while working for G.E., where she poultry products. implemented faster and efficient ways to do calculations for electrical power operations.

Women were not offered degrees in Biggest challenge Needing to be better at math than the chemistry so she earned a “certificate of men to get hired as an engineer. proficiency” in place of a bachelor’s degree.

“You must always keep in mind that Advice “There is a demand for ability regardless engineering should be performed for the of sex.” (1948) betterment of mankind.” (1920)

Garvan-Olin Medal, the highest award Awards Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame; Society given to women in the American Chemical of Women Engineers Achievement Award. Society; National Women’s Hall of Fame.

** Pledged at Eta, Wisconsin, in 1911, after graduating * deceased in 1952 from Vassar. Deceased in 1959.

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