Kappa Kappa Gamma

By Kristin Johnson Styers, Georgia Southern, The Key Editor Kappa’s National Panhellenic Conference Delegation is back from an exciting NPC annual meeting, this year held in Austin, Texas! Each year, delegates and designated visitors attend the NPC annual meeting to conduct business and share and exchange ideas with fellow NPC leaders. One of the most [...]

As our Director of Standards, Sharon supervises the work of our chapter Standards Committees—which involves answering a lot of questions! She is part of the chapter team with Collett Rangitsch, Director of Chapters, and Elizabeth Bailey, Director of Membership, who work with all of our members on their standards. A graduate of Oklahoma State University [...]

Beth Sharp, Penn State, may be new to Fraternity Council, but she certainly isn’t new to Kappa’s family of volunteers. As a Delta Alpha legacy and a one time Chapter Consultant, Beth tells us in her own words what she loves about Kappa and what she likes to do in her spare time. Enjoy! I [...]

Elizabeth Bailey, our Director of Membership and a graduate of University of Mississippi, also works for the restaurant chain Waffle House as a vice president of workers’ compensation and safety. While she may look familiar from the three coffee table books in which she has appeared, Southern Living Christmas, The Waffle House Experience, and Camp [...]

Our newly elected Director of Chapters, Collett Rangitsch, University of Wyoming, just celebrated her 25th wedding anniversary to her college sweetheart this week— congratulations! While Collett is more of a behind-the-scenes person, she became reengaged with Kappa shortly after her husband, Mark, went into private practice in Cheyenne, Wyo. At one of their first office [...]

Kappa certainly does not end once you have received your college diploma. Just ask Susanne Vander Heyden, our 2010-2012 Director of Alumnae. Susanne is entering her second term on Fraternity Council and enjoys “helping Kappa be relevant to the 22 to 102 year old woman.” Susanne became involved with Kappa as an alumna when she [...]

Cynthia Bennett Satterwhite Jarboe, William and Mary, was reelected to the position of Treasurer at our 68th Biennial Convention in June. Here she talks to us about her family, her passions and what her job with the Fraternity entails. Q: Lets start with the basics. Where do you live and what do you enjoy about [...]

*Editor’s Note: we are kicking off an eight-week blog series to introduce our 2010-2012 Fraternity Council. Check back each week to discover the story behind these inspiring women! Our newly elected leader, Julie Marine Leshay attended Colorado College where she pledged Kappa Kappa Gamma. Yet with theatre arts as her passion, Julie transferred to the [...]