The WHS Foundation has closed its strongest fundraising year to date, with alumnae and friends contributing $486,000 to the Second Century Fund. The total endows six new named scholarships and fully funds this summer’s Hollow Lead Academy. “Our sisters give the way they live — generously and on purpose,” said Foundation chair Helen Marsh Whitaker. Scholarship applications for the new awards open in October.
Thirty-one founding members received the charter of Kappa Chapter this month after a fourteen-month colony journey of service, study, and sisterhood. The chapter logged 900 outreach hours before chartering — a new record — and planted its wisteria cutting at the homecoming ceremony. Welcome home, Kappa.
Chapters have reported a combined 41,000 Project Outreach hours for the spring term — from literacy tutoring to trail restoration in forty-one college towns. The Arbor Service Cup goes to Delta Chapter, whose sisters averaged thirty-four hours apiece. The fall count begins with the Wisteria Week of Service in April.
The 2028 National Convention will gather in Nashville next June, with legislation sessions, leadership elections, and the awards banquet across four days. Chapters elect delegates this spring; alumnae registration opens in January. Start planning your circle’s road trip now — two thousand sisters in one room is something you feel for years.