Spring 2019 KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA PAGE 32 Quenched Kara Goldin set out to find a healthy go-to beverage and ended up reinventing water. Key_Cover_Final.indd 1 3/11/19 4:01 PM LOOKING BACK A midcentury modern Kappa on her wedding day: After Barbara Stice Hill, Texas Tech, courtesy married Dr. Richard M. Hill at the First United Methodist Church in Brownsville, Texas, on July barbara 6, 1957, they made a getaway in this Buick— hill 1957 complete with a Kappa Coat-of-Arms decal. SPRING 2019 ON PAGE 32 “When I got to my Diet Coke, I started really looking at the 30-plus ingredients in the drink, and I thought, ‘I don’t really know what I’m drinking here. This is kind of crazy.’” — Kara Goldin FOUNDER OF HINT INC. Spring 2019, Volume 136, No. 1 FEATURES IN EVERY ISSUE 2 Feedback Digging Roots 3 Letter From the Editor BY JODI NODING Using an Ancestry 4 The Mix DNA kit, a career Meet the Sanchezes, who 20 journalist search- flew 32,019 miles on 27 es for her birth family and flights to 12 countries and finds a story worth telling. 48 cities in 6 months—all with two children in tow. Unleashed There are no problems, only BY KRISTEN LEFEVRE challenges, for MakerGirls In the world of cre- who master STEM. ative dog grooming, 26 fur becomes fantasy. Organ donation isn’t just for A Washington Post photogra- the deceased. One couple pher goes behind the scenes at pins its hope on the trend of Groom Expo 2018. living organ donation. Kappa flight attendants Liquid Gold and pilots share the top 10 BY RACHEL LEVIN air travel tips they wish How Kara Goldin every passenger knew. 32 turned her thirst for a healthy beverage 37 Through the Keyhole kessler; into a multimillion-dollar Unboxed: the woman calla company—and emerged as an who monetized modern entrepreneurial guru. fashion influencing. instagram noding; 42 In Brief jodi hint 44 Key Achievements 46 In Memoriam courtesy courtesy COVER: margo moritz 48 Remix | GET INVOLVED WWW.KAPPA.ORG 1 Key_FOB_Final.indd 1 3/15/19 12:13 PM Feedback Volume 136, No. 1 Spring 2019 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 Stacy Warren Flannery, Drake Katie Mills Giorgio, Drake Jodi Noding, Florida Kait Smith Lanthier, Marist Laura Vinci, Kansas Editorial Board Chairman Judy Stewart Ducate, Texas Tech Executive Director Kari Kittrell Poole Director of Marketing and Communications Ashley Gilbert Moyer, Purdue Copy Editor Cailin Cooney, Central Florida Design Em Dash Printed by Lane Press Serving Greatness The Key (ISSN 1063-4665) is published Kudos on another terrific issue! The column “Love-Love: by the Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity and Foundation, 6640 Riverside Drive, Putting a ball in everyone’s court” caught my eye because I Suite 200, Dublin, Ohio 43017. Printed in the United States of America, copy- right Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity 2016. Subscription price is $3. recall that Judy Ade Levering, kappa.org/members and race that holds all of us back Northwestern, received an navigate to More Resources > from being fully human. Thank POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Key Alumnae Achievement Award General Resources > Alumnae you for this initiative. 6640 Riverside Drive, Suite 200 from Kappa Kappa Gamma. The Achievement Award Nomination. —Ann Moritz, Ph.D., Kansas Dublin, Ohio, 43017 article by Holly Dunn, Kentucky, Kappa Kappa Gamma “A Survivor’s Story,” was griping. Call to Action Band of Sisters Headquarters 6640 Riverside Drive, Suite 200 Holly, too, received an Alumnae I am writing to thank you for I greatly appreciated the Dublin, Ohio 43017 Achievement Award. I think it a step in the right direction fascinating story about Kappas Phone: 866-554-1870 (866-KKG-1870) would be wonderful if The Key’s with your [editor’s] letter in the involved in WWII. I knew Diane Email Kappa: [email protected] readership knew the Fraternity winter issue of The Key. May the Miller Selby when I was at Ohio Email The Key: [email protected] recognized these outstanding courage you displayed become State. She was and still is a great To change your address or stop women for the impact they have contagious in a system that and talented Kappa. I also worked receiving The Key, email kkghq@ made in the larger world. We are so needs such work. Brava for at Kappa Headquarters in 1958 on kappa.org or call the number above. a better organization because of lifting the message of [Lawrence Town Street for Clara Pierce and Please include full name. women like Judy and Holly. Ross'] keynote off the podium Kay Wade Pennell. Now my goal —J.J. Fraser Wales, of the Kappa Kappa Gamma is to visit the new Headquarters Ohio State Biennial Convention and onto on Riverside Drive! facebook.com/kappakappagamma facebook.com/thekeymagazine such prime real estate in this — Judy Switzer Baird, twitter.com/kappakappagamma linkedin.com Editor’s note: Nominations magazine. Perhaps the least we Ohio State Keyword: Kappa Kappa Gamma for the 2019–20 Alumnae can do: Find a way to amplify www.kappa.org Achievement Awards are due your voice. We have never had It’s wonderful to hear the stories May 15, 2019. To nominate more reason to look deeply, to of these women who contrib- a member who has achieved speak from our hearts, to say and uted so much to the [WWII] excellence in her professional do what may feel uncomfortable, effort and served anonymously! or volunteer role, visit www. and to advance on this issue of —Ginny Glaiber | 2 SPRING 2019 Key_FOB_Final.indd 2 3/15/19 12:14 PM Editor’s Letter Picture It — a video tribute worth a thousand words hen music moguls Beyoncé and Jay-Z C’est Carter couldn’t attend the London-based Magnifique! BRIT Awards in February, they accepted a When Amanda statuette for Best International Group via Herold-Marme, Richmond, arrived video. In their now-viral acceptance video, at the Louvre the couple appears on either side of a portrait of Meghan Markle, one morning W to conduct a Duchess of Sussex. But it’s not just any portrait: It’s the exact painting private tour of commissioned by The Key for our Summer 2018 issue. the museum and its treasures—a While we scratched our Mahila Foundation and World service she offers heads about how our summer Vision, congratulated her on her cover art got an audience with pregnancy, and applauded her for through her tour Beyoncé—much less found its bringing black culture in the royal company, Paris way into the Carters’ accep- spotlight during her wedding to Muse—it wasn’t tance video and into the online Prince Harry. unusual to greet a frenzy that followed—Tim With media, you don’t know O’Brien (the talented artist who what’s going to stick (or how it pair of Americans. painted the portrait for us) was comes to get stuck) in the public The unusual being interviewed by Vogue, consciousness. The only known part—quelle Harper’s Bazaar, Vanity Fair, connection between O’Brien and surprise! Oprah Magazine, and even TMZ. Beyoncé is a painting he did of —was O’Brien said he was caught by the pop star. Did Beyoncé or her learning at the surprise as much as we were. team see her portrait in O’Brien’s tour’s conclusion Kate Collins and Erin Mayes, portfolio and stumble across that she had the duo behind our design team Meghan's portrait as well? (Both at Em Dash, were stumped, too. Paris. The only difference? In the are available to order as prints just spent the It’s well known that nearly BRIT Awards acceptance video, from Tim O’Brien Illustration.) day with Kappa every public statement Beyoncé the Carters swapped the Mona However it came to be, the sister Elizabeth makes has a coded meaning, Lisa for Tim O’Brien’s portrait of picture is worth more than a Salley Vittone, and this was no different. The Meghan. Then Beyoncé penned a thousand words. At press date, it placement of Meghan’s portrait tribute to Meghan on Instagram had been viewed by millions. Richmond, and martin in the Carters’ video is nearly and on her website. Although her husband, identical to a scene from one the singer never referenced Anthony. Kappas angela of the couple’s music videos the portrait (nor The Key), she featuring the Mona Lisa and praised Meghan’s charitable work partout dans courtesy shot at the Louvre Museum in with organizations like the Myna —Kristin Sangid, Editor le monde! GET INVOLVED WWW.KAPPA.ORG | 3 Kids just naturally gravitate to people, and that has helped us connect with the people and culture of each place we visit. — Jessica Sanchez @thejetsettingfamily courtesy mıxTHE 4 | SPRING 2019 thailand GET INVOLVED WWW.KAPPA.ORG | 5 mıxTHE thailand Ready, Set … Jet — Why one family sold their stuff and packed their bags to travel the world full time he Sanchez family doesn’t own a jet … or much of anything beyond what they can carry on their backs and on airport luggage carts. The way Jessica Daniels Sanchez, New Mexico, sees it—as she explains Also known as The Jetsetting Family, via FaceTime from Australia—they’ve got one another. Jessica, Rod, Santi and and Nora Sanchez spend a day with the And they’ve got an entire world to explore together. For right now, she elephants of Chiang T Mai, Thailand.