I was a collegiate member of KDPi, but since graduation I haven't maintained my membership (at the moment, I'm no longer in the field of education). I was also the membership chair for a year and a half, so it was my job to get the applications out to students who were eligible for membership in KDPi. I don't know how your chapter finds out who's eligible, but once I got the list of eligible students, I sent them an application packet with an introductory letter about the organization and inviting them to the next meeting (none of our meetings were confidential). We would have Ice Cream socials, pizza, all the food type gatherings, as well as holding a book fair at least once a year (some times each semester) and donating the "book profit" earned to a local elementary school...we'd pick out the books and deliver them to the school. We also sent five of us down to the biannual convention my senior year to get some new ideas about teaching in general, and we came back and presented the information we got to others in KDPi who were unable to attend the convention. There's so much that you could do with the organization, and I wish you the best of luck!
