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YOUTH

Chapters are committed to sponsoring a variety of community activities that will enable and inspire the youth to attain high ethical, educational, moral, and social standards. Students receive  life skills support, academic assistance, test-taking procedures, study skills, tutoring, cultural enrichment and socialization training. Chapters with  a KOT are committed to offering a variety of experiences that will enable the college guidance group to become competent, dedicated and effective educators. The chapter provides guidance, career counseling, community service opportunities, educational advice, and training in leadership skills for female college students. All interested candidates must display good moral character and maintain at least a “C+” grade point average.
 

XINOS

The Xinos is a guidance group for young ladies in grades 9 through 12.  We seek to provide these girls with positive role models and mentors that will encourage them towards high academic, moral and social values.  We expose the young ladies to culturally enriching experiences through participation in activities that foster high standards.

XINOS HISTORY

Mayola Senior established the first Xinos Chapter in Toledo, Ohio. In that city the group was called TOPS instead of Xinos because the high school there prohibited Greek letter organizations. The aims of the group were to inspire girls to achieve high scholastic records, to furnish guidance, and to enhance their cultural backgrounds. Sorority members worked diligently to achieve these aims.

In 1948, after the annual Conclave held in Newark, New Jersey, Julia A. Barnes, a Founder, aided by Alpha Chapter member Esther Cooke, invited ten high school girls to meet at the home of Founder Barnes to form a Xinos group. Thus, the first chapter east of the Mississippi River was established for Alpha Chapter in Jersey City, New Jersey.

The group grew, and they engaged in many worthwhile activities, including tutoring, discussions on careers, philanthropy, and gifts to the needy at Christmas time, trips to cultural events as well as social gatherings chaperoned by their parents and sorority members.

Nearly all of the chapters of the National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa, Inc. have Xinos Chapters. Each of the five regions holds its Xinos Regional Conference annually.

The first Beta Theta group was organized in 1959. Beta Theta Xinos hosted the first Far Western Regional Xinos Conference.  The “Little Regional” was held as a forum in which Beta Theta and Beta Nu realized the working of the Xinos was functioning in a most significant role.  The coed workshop presented by the teenagers was most memorable, and out of it evolved our first organized group of teenage boys, under the leadership of Julia Carpenter. The Youth Groups are now called Xinos for girls and Kudos for boys.

 

KUDOS

 

The Kudos is a guidance group for young men in grades 9 through 12. It is our goal to help guide the development of these young men into becoming responsible men of high moral, academic and social characteristics.  We seek to provide these high school students with cultural experiences, mentors and positive role models who can lend structure and support in their transitions to manhood.

KUDOS HISTORY

Around September of 1969 a group of six young men gathered to form the Megistos Club. The Megistos Club, which was Greek for “the greatest,” was sponsored by the Beta Theta Chapter of the National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa, Inc., with Julia Carpenter as advisor.

The purpose of the Megistos was to:

  • lift the educational, moral, and social standards of youths

  • aid in the development of well-rounded individuals

  • create a desire in boys to improve their scholarship

  • provide an opportunity for boys to broaden their scope of activities

  • encourage active participation in civic activities

  • emphasize the cultural and social graces of manhood.

 

At the 1983 Conclave the Megistos officially had their name changed to Kudos, meaning “a claim to prestige renown.” Many of the chapters of National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa, Inc. have Kudos Chapters. Each of the five regions holds its Kudos Regional Conference annually. The Regional Conference is held in conjunction with the Xinos.

Beta Theta Xinos hosted the first Far Western Region’s Xinos Conference.  The “Little Regional” held in 1959, as a forum in which Beta Theta and Beta Nu realized the working of the Xinos was functioning in a most significant role.  The coed workshop presented by the teenagers was most memorable, and out of this evolved our first organized group of teenage boys.

HUB PARENTS

The Hub Parents is a parent support group for the Xinos and Kudos. All parents, grandparents and guardians of Xinos and Kudos are welcomed to join.  They combine their efforts be a support not only their high school students but also each other

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