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KDChi completes 20,512 service hours

Kappa Delta Chi Sorority Inc. Announces Spring 2011 Community Service Accomplishments
For Immediate Release:

KAPPA DELTA CHI SORORITY INC. SISTERS COMPLETE 20, 512 COMMUNITY SERVICE HOURS IN SPRING 2011

(Lubbock, TX) Kappa Delta Chi Sorority Inc. is so proud of our sisters who are making a difference in the world by lending a hand to people in need. During the Spring 2011 semester our KDChi Chapters came together to contribute 20,512 hours of service. By choosing to become part of KDChi, our sisters chose a path of serving others and we as a national organization are so proud to see the passion as evident in the number of community service hours completed every semester. Thank you to all of our chapters that go above and beyond by completing their required service hours and selflessly choosing to give many more while balancing a full load of course work, leading or being part of other organizations and working their way through college.

Our National Chapter Programming Office Vanessa Trevino is so proud of our ladies and is excited to see the hard work the chapters have done and will continue to do and says she expects nothing less than the best from sisters and emphasizes the importance of spending quality service time on issues facing their community. "We hope chapters work together to identify this issue and set forth goal(s) they would like to accomplish either within the semester or year. All chapters should be purposeful in their service."

KDChi would like to congratulate our Delta Chapter (seen in the pic to the left) at the University of Arizona for performing the highest amount of service hours during the spring 2011 with their 1,786 hours. It's an amazing accomplishment to be able to complete the expected amount of hours and surpass the chapter goals. Huge kudos to the Delta Chapter Community Service Officer, Karen Quintana, for motivating the chapter at succeeding their Service hour goal. President Danielle Trujillo says, "We worked hard to balance out everything, and there was times when it became difficult but with the support and help of all the sisters pulling together as one, we pulled off an amazing semester". Types of projects the Delta sisters were involved in included: Race for the Cure, Relay for Life, Gear Up, and worked very closely withtheir local philanthropy Project Yes (which involved their annual carnival).

Many chapters also worked hard at achieving an amazing amount of service hours. Congratulations to the Beta Chapter at Texas A&M for achieving 1,245 Hours, Theta Chapter at the University of Houston with their 1,215 hours, Pi Chapter at the University of Texas at Austin with 1,145 hours and Alpha Sigma of Florida State University with 1,014, just to name a few. Together our KDChi chapters completed 20,512 hours of service! It goes without saying that we receive much more then we put in and as we continue in this new semester we hope to keep the momentum and service goals high. Thank you sisters for showing by example how much you care for others and your community.

~Leading with Integrity, United through Service~

Kappa Delta Chi Sorority, Inc. is a Latina founded, 501 c 7, national sorority who aims to achieve professional development, academic excellence, and graduation of all its members; an organization dedicated to community service to their local university communities with an emphasis on the Hispanic/Latino population. KDChi was founded on April 6, 1987 at Texas Tech University. You may visit us on the web at www.KappaDeltaChi.org.

KDChi's UNT Colony Gains Chapter Status

Kappa Delta Chi Sorority Is proud to announce that the KDChi Colony at the University of North Texas was officially inducted as the Alpha Upsilon Chapter to Kappa Delta Chi Sorority, Inc. on August 21, 2011.

These ladies have worked very hard to gain this accomplishment. So far in their short time of being part of the sisterhood they've won numerous awards including the MGC Involvement Cup Award, MGC Spirit Award, Chapter Progress Award, Advisor of the Year Award, Greek Woman of the Year Award, Region of the Year, and three sisters won the President’s Volunteer Service Award.

The Involvement Cup Award was given to Kappa Delta Chi during the Greek Awards at UNT; this award is given to a chapter showing exceptional involvement in the local and UNT communities. The MGC Spirit Award is granted to the organization who most upholds the values of the Multicultural Greek Council. Another award
received was the Chapter Progress Award; this is given to the chapter who exhibited the most academic, personal, and community growth.

In additon to the group awards they received, they also had a number of individuals excel; the Advisor of the Year Award was given to Dena Guzman for contributing her time and energy to the sorority. The Greek Woman of the Year Award was awarded to Cirzy Gonzalez, who at the time was the President of KDChi. It is the highest award that an individual can be recognized with for showing exceptional involvement, contributions and service to the sorority, UNT, and the community.

The North Texas region was also awarded with Region of the Year for their contributions not only to the undergraduates but to their community as well. Three of their sisters were recognized at the 2011 KDChi National Conference with the President’s Volunteer Service award; Maureen Huaringa, Sandra Jaime, and Yvette Andablo; for completing above and beyond the required service hours for the 2010-2011 year.

The ladies of Kappa Delta Chi, Alpha Upsilon worked extremely hard to gain chapter status and in the process were standouts on their campus as well as their surrounding communities. The chapter will continue to work hard to accomplish more goals and build a stronger sisterhood. This semester they hope to surpass the accomplishments of the past and continue to see the chapter grow.

~Leading with Integrity, United through Service~

KDChi Sorority Inc.Unveils Graduate/Professional Membership Program

Kappa Delta Chi Sorority Inc.Unveils Graduate/Professional Membership Program For Immediate Release:

July 18, 2011 (Lubbock, TX) Kappa Delta Chi Sorority Inc. is proud to unveil the newly created Graduate/Professional Intake Program rolling out officially August 1st. Over the years KDChi has increasingly received interests from women across the country who may not have attended the Universities our sisterhood has chartered at, but they feel a tie to the values our sisterhood offers. This program was designed for interested women who perhaps did not have the opportunity to obtain membership in our organization during their collegiate years. Estee Hernández, VP of Alumnae Affairs, and Mary González, National President, have worked very hard to ensure that the professional intake process would be similar to the collegiate process but at the same time understanding that different factors come to play when a woman is in a different stage of her life such as motherhood, career, graduate school, and so forth.

KDChi Beta Alum hit by a drunk driver in TX and is recovering

Please keep one of our Beta alumni sisters in your good thoughts and prayers. On Saturday 41 year old Suzanna Vasquez Gonzales was driving southbound on Hwy 16 near Poteet, TX at 4:30 in the afternoon. A 64-year old suspected drunk driver was headed north in the wrong lane and slammed into her vehicle head-on.

KDChi sister & Lawmaker sees issue through undocumented past

State Rep. Ana Hernandez Luna stood before the House on the afternoon of May 9, hours after lawmakers passed the controversial "sanctuary city" bill, and started reading from a prepared statement, her eyes downcast. “Immigration and all that it encompasses is very personal for me because I was an undocumented immigrant,” Hernandez Luna, 32, said in a halting and teary speech. “You may prefer to use the word illegal alien, but I'm not an alien. I am not a problem that must be handled. I'm a human — a person standing before you now as a representative for the Texas House.” With her roughly five-minute speech, she did what some would consider crazy in the current political climate.