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Most of my favorite memories regarding Initiation are ritual-ish, so this post will be short.
I am a charter member of my chapter, and so my new member program was very unconventional, due to the lack of older sisters in our chapter. I discovered GC a week or two after I went through formal pledging, and introduced myself. I quickly got a PM from Curlygirly (one of the many Kappa PM's during my new member period) introducing herself as a recently initiated member of Epsilon Phi, at the University of Florida, which was to be our key sister chapter. (I go to the University of Central Florida, btw.) We PM'ed back and forth quite a bit over the next few weeeks, and about the Friday or Saturday before I- week started, I received a PM asking for my real name, saying she couldn't say why yet and just asking me to trust her on this one. I sent it to her, and when I was introduced to my key sister after Fireside that night, she comes up, hugs me, and said "By the way, I'm Curlygirly from GC."
That whole weekend was overwhelming for me- we were initiated by the Fraternity president, Ann Truesdell, and actives from five chapters were present at our initiation ceremony, which had about 200 Kappas in attendance not counting initiates. We were also told that we were the biggest new member class the Fraternity had ever initated who all went to active status (as opposed to alumnae status) afterwards, and the second biggest new member class ever in the history of the Fraternity.
I love our ritual, and love Inspiration Week. (I'm looking forward to ours in just a couple of weeks!) I'm excited to be serving as a key sister for the first time this semester, and just know I'll cry at Initation this year. Watch and listen closely, as I'm sure you'll love our ritual and our initation. Remember though you will hopefully attend many initiation ceremonies as a Kappa, you only get to be initated once, and I hope it will be as special to you and your new member class as it was to me and mine.
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