UNC senior and Kappa Delta president Lauren Freedman, left, and sorority sister Meaghan Jennison, right, a sophomore at UNC, laugh as they paint an announcement on the cubes outside the Student Union in Chapel Hill this week.

The women of Kappa Delta, now up to 172 members after the recent recruitment of 50 new sisters, are preparing for a large event in celebration of National Women's Friendship Day on Sunday. The day was set aside in 1999 by Kappa Delta "to celebrate the relationships women have with each other and to promote changing the world and making a really positive difference as a woman," Freedman says.

The sorority has invited Molly Barker, founder of Girls on the Run, as guest speaker for the day. UNC alumna Barker's program encourages preteen girls to develop self-respect and healthy lifestyles through running.

"She is a great example. She has succeeded. She has written books. She has a great family life," explains Freedman, who hopes the event will "engage both older women and college-age women and high-schoolers and middle-schoolers in the Chapel Hill community."

The women of Kappa Delta also hope that the event will give them a platform to "project an image that we think portrays us," says junior and Kappa Delta vice president of public relations Morgan Hargrove, 20, not pictured.