Summer 2015 KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA 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 kappa 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 Summer 2015, Volume 132, No. 2 FEATURES IN EVERY ISSUE 2 Feedback Can You Hear 3 Letter from the Editor 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 As Teach For Ameri- 32 ca turns 25, co-CEO Elisa Beard attempts scott goldsmith; jim lynch; courtesy of of courtesy scott goldsmith; jim lynch; teach for america to turn problems into progress. GET INVOLVED WWW.KAPPA.ORG | 1 Feedback Volume 132, No. 2 Summer 2015 The Key is the first college women’s fraternity magazine, published continuously since 1882. Editor Kristin Johnson Sangid, Georgia Southern Associate Editor Kristen Desmond LeFevre, Indiana Contributing Editors Melisse Campbell, Mississippi Lucy First, DePauw Leanne Aurich Matullo, Pittsburgh SommerAnn McCullough, Denison Jodi Noding, Florida Kait Smith, Marist Editorial Board Chairman Judy Stewart Ducate, Texas Tech Fraternity Vice President Elizabeth Bailey, Mississippi Executive Director Kari Kittrell Director of Marketing and Communications Ashley Gilbert Moyer, Purdue Creative Content Specialist Sarah Kropp, Allegheny Design Em Dash Printed by The Watkins Printing Company, Columbus, Ohio The Key (ISSN 1063-4665) is published by the Kappa Kappa Gamma Frater- Book Collector nity and Foundation, 530 E. Town St., Columbus, OH 43215. Printed in the United States of America, copyright Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity 2014. Thank you for the article on Nancy Ekholm Burkert in the Subscription price is $3. 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. 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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 mıxTHE Natalie Jones, Emory, greets President François Hollande of France. images nicholas kamm/afp/getty 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.