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PAGE 2 Theta Gamma Chapter Today T heta Gamma continues to excel on campus through academic achievement, campus leadership, outstanding recruitment, and philanthropic impact. CHAPTER EVENTS • Members host a 15K in One Day challenge for St. Jude. In 2019, Theta Gamma far exceeded their goal by raising over $32,000 in 24 hours! • Every fall and spring Theta Gamma hosts large-scale, fun events for the mothers, fathers and special friends of our chapter members, which include large meals feeding hundreds of members and guests. • During football season, the chapter hosts a cookout on Delta Beach during the OU-TX football game. The women love showing their Sooner pride! • More than 300 women gather at the chapter house to participate in an annual letter-writing campaign. This fun sisterhood event recently helped raise over $50,000! • Each year the chapter hosts the Coffee House fundraiser for St. Jude, which welcomes over 1,500 members of the OU community to the house in one day. THETA GAMMA ACCOMPLISHMENTS • In 2018, Julie Confer '14, 2017 president, received the national Sarah Ida Shaw award for Outstanding Collegian in Tri Delta. • OU recently awarded Faith Wolford '15 with Outstanding Panhellenic Senior. • Campus leaders: Mallory Leo '16 is the 2019 University Sing Chairman, Annie Coffey '15 served as VP of Judicial Affairs for OU Panhellenic, McKenzi Ormsbee '15 was the 2018 VP of Recruitment Operations, and Greer Thomas '16 served as Campus Activities Chairwoman. • We had two members interning with ALSAC/St. Jude during fall 2018. • Theta Gamma has won six President's Trophies. • More than 173 members achieved a GPA of 3.5 or higher in the past year and of those women, over 70 received a 4.0 GPA. • Theta Gamma members committed over 4,300 volunteer hours to the community in a single year. • 72 members volunteered with Camp Crimson, including 19 who served on the staff (which is selected from over 900 applications). • We are proud to have 11 members in President's Community Scholars. This program only selects 100 student leaders from over 17,000 applications. • We were honored to call 23 of the 125 of the President's Leadership Class Tri Delta sisters with nine serving as PLC mentors. • 20 members recently served as Campus Diversity Experience Facilitators. • Our chapter boasts 13 research and teaching assistants at OU in subjects ranging from chemistry to aerospace engineering. • Fun fact: Elaine McConnell Yarbrough was named Most Outstanding House Director for 2018 and 2019. She was initiated in 2011 and is the president of the house directors' group at OU. Tri Deltas boast many accomplishments and our home at 1611 College is the center of these great efforts and our sisterhood. Our Theta Gamma chapter house does much more than house 93 women. It is home to sisterhood events, Scandals and U Sing practices, karaoke nights, fundraising events, formal meals, study sessions, and welcomes countless family and friends. Tri Delta at 1611 College is not just a house; it is the epicenter of the collegiate experience for all of our young women. THETA GAMMA CHAPTER

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