Kappa Delta - University of Alabama

2 KAPPA DELTA CHAPTER HOUSE COMPLETE While work on our new Chapter House is completed, the First Sorority, First Circle… Continuing the Tradition campaign is still ongoing. Just like KD was the first sorority at UA, we want be the first sorority at The University of Alabama to reach $3 million raised for our new Chapter House. The permanent plaque for the Chapter House will not be printed until the campaign ends next summer, so there is still time for you to be part of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If you have yet to donate, please use the enclosed pledge card and make a donation today! If you are among the 675 who have donated, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Because of you, this project happened! Please consider adding another year onto your pledge, or increasing your gift in order to help us reach our goal. As we look to the future of Kappa Delta, and our new Chapter House, we are helping plant the seeds for a Chapter of sisters we do not know, and for many of us, we may never know these future Kappa Delta members. While we may never meet them, it is through our bonds of sisterhood that we must support future generations of KDs. Will you help us be the first to reach $3 million? Love in AOT, Murray Tutwiler Priester '78 Campaign Co-Chairman priesterjl@aol.com (205) 871-4930 Mary Stimpson Turner '84 Campaign Co-Chairman marystimpsonturner@gmail.com (205) 870-1938 2 Chapter House Construction Completed Zeta Chapter Celebrates Its New Home T he new Kappa Delta Chapter House is finally a reality! Our building committee can hardly believe that four years have passed since this project began. I would like to thank our members who worked daily on designing the new KD house: Camie Pritchard Griffin '76, Murray Tutwiler Priester '79, Jane Neighbors Brakefield '77, and Mary Stimpson Turner '84. It has been wonderful working with this dedicated group. We are thrilled with the stately, elegant, and timeless building designed by Barganier, Davis, and Sims of Montgomery. It has been a pleasure to work with our creative interior designers, Lisa Caldwell Flake '91 and Mary Ruth Caldwell '66 of Caldwell Flake Interiors in Birmingham, and we are grateful to Harrison Construction of Tuscaloosa project manager, Keith Jones, who maintained high construction standards. We also appreciate the creative design of Bonner Lee from the U.A. Landscape Department and the work of Sommer Coleman of the U.A. Construction Department. We valued their calmness throughout this project. Our members are now living in a 40,571-square- foot house with 14-feet-high ceilings on the first floor and 6- to 10-feet ceilings on the second and third floors. The entrance has beautiful white and black marble and the remainder of the floors on first floor are wide planks with walnut stain. Elaborate pilasters adorn the walls and doorways and the dining room provides seating for 200 women at walnut tables and chippendale chairs, which replicate those in the beloved KD house so many of us remember. After extensive study of the collegiate members' lifestyles, we determined that the house should sleep 66 women in predominately double rooms with the beds in rooms adjacent to the dressing/ sitting rooms. The house has state-of-the-art equipment, including a screen flashing news and safety directions, televisions throughout, high-quality kitchen equipment, and an elevator, which makes the facility ADA-complaint. When you visit the KD Chapter House, be sure and see the white roses in the garden and the sorority crests on the Chapter room chairs. Also, don't worry; your composite is still hanging. We look forward to all alumnae visiting the new Chapter House soon. Loyally, Sally Smith Legg '78 sallyslegg@gmail.com (205) 492-3379 (Continued from page 1) Patio Sun Deck Bathroom Second Floor Den Study Room

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