Betsy Evans, Susan Weinberger, Sherry Myer, Kathy Mitchell, Julie McLaughlin
For more then a decade, the Fairfield County Alumnae Association of Kappa Kappa Gamma has been volunteering at Carver’s after school program. Members of the sorority travel to the Carver Community Center, as they did today, with a special book to read to our K-5 students. It is followed with homemade desserts and an art project.
Kappa has a total membership of more than 260,000 women, with 140 collegiate chapters in the United States and Canada and 307 alumnae associations worldwide. Although the groundwork of the organization was developed as early as 1869, the 1876 Convention voted for October 13, 1870 to be recognized as the official Founders Day as no earlier charter date could be determined.
Kappa Kappa Gamma is a women's fraternity due to its founding before the term "sorority" came into use. Because men were able to create fraternities at the time, Kappa Kappa Gamma's founders did the same, but as the fraternity admits only women, it is referred to as a sorority. The fraternity is a founding member of the National Panhellenic Conference (NPC), an umbrella organization that includes 26 American sororities.
Thank you to KKG for your on-going partnership!
From the Kappa Kappa Gamma website:
Sometimes it’s hard to say which is more compelling. Is it our 140 plus years of fraternity or the fact that we were ever founded in the first place? Our beginnings coincide with the end of the Civil War and occurred fifty years before women would receive the right to vote and hold office in America.
So when six exceptional women at Monmouth College in Illinois decided to express their belief in a woman’s potential to impact the world, they had already begun the first step on the journey to do precisely that.
Kappa Kappa Gamma was founded as a women’s fraternity in 1870 - years before the word “sorority” would even be introduced.