New Member Exam Flashcards

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Vision

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Kappa Delta Sorority is committed to providing opportunities and experiences that inspire women to greatness.

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Creed

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May we, sisters of Kappa Delta strive each day to seek earnestly the honorable and beautiful things. May we each day through love of those within our circle learn to know and understand better those without our circle. May the diamond shield that guards our love find us each day truer, wiser, more faithful, more loving, and more noble.

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Mission Statement

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Kappa Delta Sorority is a national organization for women committed to:

  • inspiring our members to reach their full potential
  • preparing our members for community service, active leadership, and responsible citizenship
  • creating opportunities for lifetime involvement through innovative and responsive programs, and strategic collaborations and partnerships; and
  • fostering the development of our time-honored values within the context of friendship
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Purpose

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The purpose of Kappa Delta Sorority is to promote true friendship among the college girls of our country by inculcating into their hearts and lives those principles of truth, of honor, of duty, without which there can be no true friendship.

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Object

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The object of Kappa Delta Sorority is the formation and perpetuation of good fellowship, friendship; and sisterly love among its members; the encouragement of literature and education; the promotion of social interest; and the furtherance of charitable and benevolent purposes.

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Live GREAT

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Growth through lifetime learning
Responsibility for our own integrity and ethical actions
Engagement in social and civic interests
Altruistic service to others
Truth and loyalty to each other for a lifetime

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Ta Kala Diokomen

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Let us strive for that which is honorable, beautiful, and highest.

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Five areas of concentration that make up chapter excellence

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Leadership
Academic excellence 
Membership
Philanthropy
Social success
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Four founding members

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Lenora Ashmore Blackiston
Sara Turner White
Mary Sommerville Sparks Hendrick
Julia Gardiner Tyler Wilson

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Symbols

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Nautilus shell, dagger, diamond shape

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International holidays

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International Women’s Friendship Month - September

International Girls Day - November 14

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Kappa Delta Foundation

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Established in 1981 to secure funds for the educational, leadership, and charitable purposes of the sorority

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Historical Philanthropies

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Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU

Orthopedic Research Awards

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Philanthropies

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Girl Scouts of the USA

Prevent Child Abuse America

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Founders Day

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October 23, 1897 at State Female Normal School (Longwood University) in Farmville, Virginia

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Colors

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Olive green and pearl white

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Jewels

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Diamond, emerald, and pearl

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Three branches of KD’s confidence platform

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Encouraging confidence in chapter members, celebrating confidence in women, and encouraging confidence on campus and in communities

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Address of National Headquarters

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3205 Players Lane, Memphis, Tennessee 38125

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National division our chapter is a member of

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Division 13

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Ways you can stay involved with KD after graduation

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Join alumnae chapter, serve on chapter advisory board, read the Angelos, visit KD website, serve on national leadership team, work at KD headquarters, organize a pledge class reunion

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Forms of print of electronic communication KD uses

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The Angelos, KD leader, facebook, Twitter, Instagram, tumblr, Pinterest

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Ways to serve as leader in chapter and on campus

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Council officers, appointed offices, committees, Panhellenic offices, varsity/club athletics, student organizations

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National President

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Beth Martin Langford

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National Vice President

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Betty Brown Mulkey

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National VP - Membership

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Alison Jakes Argersinger

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National VP - Collegians

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Alane Hall

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National VP - Alumnae

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Tricia Ruma Spence

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National VP - Finance

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Jodi Scheurenbrand

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National Panhellenic Conference Delegate

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Julie Landgren Johnson

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Executive Director

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Pamela Nix Elms