Kappa Tau Gamma was established as a social club, on October 7, 1953, after the Administration and Budget Committee of The Catholic University of America held a meeting. 

 The 15 founding sisters took KTG’s name from the first three words of the Greek phrase, “We can change the world” – and stated as it’s purpose: “to establish and provide a well-rounded social life and to foster spirit of social service among the undergraduate women of CUA.”

 These first members elected as their President Beverly Skirnak, a sophomore. They also elected a Vice President to serve as the representative to the Spiritual Council and Inter-Sorority Council (ISC) representative, Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretary, a Treasurer and a Pledge Mistress. The founding sisters, most Speech and Drama (S & D) and nursing majors, were Joan Aurelius, Terry Tabor, Barbara Brown, Pat Smith, Ann Orlosky, Carole Macho, Sheila Manning, Lynn DeBeacke, Beverly Skirnak, Dee Colopy, Pat Sieber, Loretta Taymus, Jane Hill, Ellenore Kordick, and Bambi Stancioff.

After a fire on campus, started by a fraternity, Father Friday rid the campus of all Greek Life, except those who remained service oriented. Through the years after, the Greek Life on Catholic University’s campus has diminished to three establishments: Kappa Tau Gamma (the only social-service sorority), Alpha Delta Gamma (the only social-service fraternity), and Alpha Phi Omega (a coed service fraternity).

Traditions:

The sorority has, over the years, come to acquire a number of activities, events and projects which it considers its own. Some of these have changed over the years, with new ones replacing the old, but all of them are a part of the sorority and as such, constitute its traditions.

The first pledges of Kappa Tau Gamma wore collars embroidered with the initials of the sorority. The collars in time were replaced with a red skeleton key, symbolic of pledge hood as the key to the door of sisterhood. The formal pledge pin has taken many shapes; before the 1960's it was a small rose of silver or gold in keeping with the rose as the sorority flower. During the 1960's the sisters voted on having the pledges wear red bows, which have been associated with the KTG sisters since the days of UMOC "Pope John" Innocenti. In the 1990's, these red bows began to be confused with AIDS awareness bows, so as a result, we changed to a red and blue bow as a symbol of the colors of KTG. In 1997, a vote was taken to restore the pledge pin of the rose. The pledges now wear a gold rose pin.

Also traditional during pledging is the Spaghetti Dinner given by the pledge class for the sisters. Usually the Pledge Show takes place during the Spaghetti Dinner.

Originally, the constitution called for each sister to fulfill a specific number of social work hours per semester, but that has changed to group events each semester – sacred to our hearts, the sisters of KTG volunteer in numerous walks including the AVON Walk for Breast Cancer.

A Farewell Picnic is given at the end of the year for departing seniors. ‘Kidnapping’, really we should say taking the pledges to someplace fun, has become an integral part of our traditions, not only during pledging, but all year round. We currently continue to sponsor homecoming candidates – in the past the sister candidates have been paired with brothers of ADG and our sweethearts.