style="font-size: large;" | KGD - Kappa Gamma Delta

Motto	"Service to Humanity"
Colors	Burgundy and Forest Green
Flower	White Rose
Nickname	KGD
Founded	March 3, 1994 at UC Davis, California California California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
Founders	Maricris Belisario, Chong Choe, Mindy Compton, Pamela Hy, Marge Lee, Kathy Pham, Jennifer Skinkle (now Jennifer Schwartz), Charlene Tran, Gwen Tran, Aileen Tiew, Carolyn Trieu, and Julie Tse
Sorority type	Professional
Scope	Premedical
Chapters	3 active chapters
Homepage	http://www.kappagammadelta.org/ http://www.ucbkgd.org/HOME.html http://ucsckgd.org/default.aspx

Kappa Gamma Delta (ΚΓΔ) is a professional

Professional fraternity

Professional fraternities, in the North American fraternity system, are organizations whose primary purpose is to promote the interests of a particular profession and whose membership is restricted to students in that particular field of professional education or study...

 college sorority

Fraternities and sororities

Fraternities and sororities are fraternal social organizations for undergraduate students. In Latin, the term refers mainly to such organizations at colleges and universities in the United States, although it is also applied to analogous European groups also known as corporations...

 for women studying medicine

Medicine

Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....

 and related professions.

Purpose

To assist female college students in the premedical process; to encourage the development of leadership, communication skills, and maturity; to provide support academically, socially, and emotionally; and to promote individuality, unity, and diversity.

Founding

Kappa Gamma Delta began during the winter quarter of 1993 at the University of California, Davis

University of California, Davis

The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...

 when students Charlene Tran and Marge Lee envisioned a professional sorority that would provide support for women during the premedical process. They and 10 other women made up the founding class of 12 scholars. Tran and Lee received help from Sigma Mu Delta

Sigma Mu Delta

Sigma Mu Delta is a pre-medical fraternity founded at University of California, Davis in 1994. It is the first organization of its kind on the West coast. Currently, Sigma Mu Delta has chapters at the University of California, Davis; the University of California, Berkeley; and the University of...

, a premedical fraternity. During the first meeting on March 3, 1994, in the lounge of Temescal apartments in Davis, twelve women -- Maricris Belisario, Chong Choe, Mindy Compton, Pamela Hy, Marge Lee, Kathy Pham, Jennifer Skinkle (now Jennifer Schwartz), Charlene Tran, Gwen Tran, Aileen Tieu, Carolyn Trieu, and Julie Tse -- committed themselves to the responsibility and dedication in the construction of this new sorority. With its founding, Kappa Gamma Delta became the first premedical sorority in the United States of America.

The first Coat-of-Arms consisted of an open book, a haystack

Haystack

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, the sorority flower, the female symbol

Gender symbol

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, and a Oil lamp

Oil lamp

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. The haystack was later replaced by a torch surrounded by several rings. The founders chose the sorority symbol to be the caduceus

Caduceus

The caduceus is the staff carried by Hermes in Greek mythology. The same staff was also borne by heralds in general, for example by Iris, the messenger of Hera. It is a short staff entwined by two serpents, sometimes surmounted by wings...

, wings, and the female symbol. The sorority song and oath were adopted on June 10, 1994. The constitution was affirmed May 30, 1994.

While participating in service projects such as the Bay to Breakers

Bay to Breakers

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 and various symposia such as "Life During and After Medical School," the women of Kappa Gamma Delta developed their motto, "Service to Humanity".

Sorority Song written by Jennifer Skinkle and Charlene Tran:

"Kappa Gamma Delta,
Sisterhood Forever.
Educating our Future,
Trusting each other
To make our dreams come true.
Service to Humanity,
We learn responsibility.
With inspiration from our sisters
Doctors we will be.'

Expansion

In Spring 2002, Kappa Gamma Delta was established at the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

 with the initiation efforts of Jo Ann Etorma and Annie Khan, members of the University of California, Davis chapter; and in Winter 2006, at the University of California, Santa Cruz

University of California, Santa Cruz

The University of California, Santa Cruz, also known as UC Santa Cruz or UCSC, is a public, collegiate university; one of ten campuses in the University of California...

with the initiation efforts of Judy J. He and Sabrina Silva, members of the University of California, Davis chapter. Kappa Gamma Delta was also a co-ed fraternity at California State University Sacramento for a brief time.