STARKVILLE, Miss.--A Mississippi State social sorority is providing nearly $11,500 to a Golden Triangle facility for child-abuse victims.
Officers of the university's Kappa Delta chapter recently presented a check to representatives of the Sally Kate Winters Memorial Home of West Point.
The annual gift is derived from a series of fund-raising events--collectively titled the Shamrock Project--the student organization completes each year on behalf of child-abuse prevention at the local and national levels.
Through a pancake breakfast, Bunco tournament, 5K run/walk, and cheesecake sales, KD members raised a total of $14,000 during the 2005 spring semester. Eighty percent of the amount went to the Winters Home, while the remainder was forwarded to the sorority's national philanthrophy, Chicago, Ill.-based Prevent Child Abuse America.
"We always are amazed at how much the ladies of Kappa Delta can produce in one week of hard work," said Winters Home executive director Sheila Brand.
"We would like to express our gratitude for the support we've received through the Shamrock Project and the KDs throughout the years," Brand said, adding, "Kappa Delta truly is a blessing for Sally Kate."
The sorority was founded in 1897 at what now is Longwood University in Farmville, Va. The MSU chapter, which this year had 160 members, was chartered in 1971.
