SOCIAL CLUBS: PHI KAPPA
October 30, 2018
Surprise! Happy BirthdAY AY AY! Phi Kappa Delta’s executive officers made grand plans to celebrate the club’s fifth birthday in January 2019.
Mallory Mobley, a senior communication sciences and disorders major, served as vice president of Phi Kappa Delta in the fall of 2018 alongside Margret Martin, a senior business management major.
“I am so excited to celebrate PKD’s 5th birthday and reach that milestone for this club,” Martin said. “To me, this party is a celebration of where our club has been and where it will continue to go. The legacy from our charter members still lives on through members of my class who knew them well. It is crazy that after five years, they left their mark on the club and left it in our hands to grow and take care of.”
PKD was officially founded in January of 2014, after its beginning in the fall of 2013. The club has grown over the years and commits to being locked in unity. To continue this sense of unity, PKD president and senior marketing major Cathryn Blankenship got together with Martin and Mobley, and made the club’s fifth birthday special for everyone as they hosted a surprise party for all PKD members.
“It is so exciting for us to celebrate PKD's 5th birthday, and to look back on how far we have come since our start,” Mobley said. “PKD has flourished into an amazing club that I love in such a short amount of time and that is something that we feel should be commended and celebrated.”
Blankenship had served as an officer every semester since she was eligible in her four years in PKD. She had a love so large for the women of PKD and wanted the last event she planned for PKD to be one to remember.
“Celebrating PKD’s birthday will be my final act as an officer in this club.” Blankenship said. “I was really blessed to get to know many of the charter members when I joined the club. They worked so hard to build this sisterhood and trusted us to continue the legacy. It’s been an amazing perspective to have joined a club when it was still so young, and to have witnessed how it has grown into what it is today.”
Blankenship, Martin and Mobley organized food, party games and had an evening full of surprises for their final meeting in their officer roles. Their main objective of the evening was to celebrate the hard work of former founding members and to celebrate the future leaders of PKD.
“My time in PKD has been so special to me as I have gotten to be a part of starting traditions and creating a legacy for after I leave,” Martin said. “We thought that it would be so cool to surprise the club in this way to give the girls something to be proud of and excited for. Our newest induction class is so sweet and I can’t wait to see what they do to continue PKD’s legacy for years to come.”