KNOWLEDGE CHECK!

ALPHA CHAPTER

100

22

Founders

200

FIRST PUBLIC ACT UNDER THE BANNER OF 

DELTA SIGMA THETA

Women's Suffrage March

300

FEBRUARY 18, 1913

DELTA’S ALPHA CHAPTER WAS GRANTED A CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

400

1912

YEAR DELTA SIGMA THETA WAS CONCEPTUALIZED AS A CHARTERED SORORITY

500

FOCUS ON PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

VERSUS

SOCIAL ISSUES OF THE TIME

TWO FACTIONS THAT EMERGED WITHIN

ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA

IN 1912

JEWELS

100

JEWEL 

DEDICATED TO THE FOUNDERS OF DELTA SIGMA THETA

COMPASSION

200

JEWEL 

DEDICATED TO THE NATIONAL PRESIDENTS, PAST AND PRESENT

DEDICATION

300

JEWEL 

DEDICATED TO THE MOTHERS OF

 DELTA MEMBERS

COURTESY

400

FIDELITY

THE FIFTH JEWEL 

500

JEWEL DEDICATED TO THE DECEASED SORORS OF DELTA SIGMA THETA

PURITY

FOUNDERS

100

Presented the president of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority at Howard University, with the idea that the group consider becoming a chartered sorority.

FOUNDER MADREE PENN WHITE

200

PRESIDENT WILLIAM TAFT PRESENTED HER WITH HER DIPLOMA AND SCHOLARSHIP TO HOWARD

FOUNDER

FLORENCE LETCHER TOMS

300

SHE WAS THE FIRST SERGEANT-AT-ARMS OF ALPHA CHAPTER

FOUNDER FREDERICA CHASE DODD

400

NATIVE OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND TAUGHT AT CLAFLIN COLLEGE IN ORANGEBURG,

SOUTH CAROLINA 

FOUNDER

EDITH MOTTE YOUNG

500

FOLLOWING HER RETIREMENT, SHE BEGAN A SECOND CAREER AS A DRAMATIC PERFORMER

FOUNDER

ETHEL CARR WATSON

PRESIDENTS

100

THIRD NATIONAL  PRESIDENT

Ethel Lamay Calimese

200

SECOND NATIONAL  PRESIDENT

Dorothy Pelham Beckley

300

CREATED 1ST NATIONAL CONVENTION;

AUTHORIZED GRADUATE CHAPTERS;

MAY WEEK ADOPTED

SADIE TANNER MOSSELL ALEXANDER

400

SERVED AS THE

SECOND PRESIDENT OF ALPHA CHAPTER AND DELTA SIGMA THETA SORORITY (1913 -1919)

FOUNDER

MADREE PENN WHITE

500

LONGEST SERVING PRESIDENT OF DELTA SIGMA THETA SORORITY

DOROTHY IRENE HEIGHT

MISC

100

WROTE AND COMPOSED THE DELTA HYMN

ALICE DUNBAR-NELSON AND

FLORENCE COLE TALBERT

200

HELD

DECEMBER 27 – 30, 1919 IN WASHINGTON, DC

FIRST NATIONAL CONVENTION

300

HONORARY MEMBER

INITIATED IN 1923

MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE

400

PYRAMID INDUCTION CEREMONY

INITIATION CEREMONY

OMEGA OMEGA SERVICE

THREE RITES OF PASSAGE

500

MISSION STATEMENT

DELTA SIGMA THETA SORORITY, INCORPORATED IS AN ORGANIZATION OF COLLEGE EDUCATED WOMEN COMMITTED TO

THE CONSTRUCTIVE DEVELOPMENT OF ITS MEMBERS AND TO PUBLIC SERVICE WITH A PRIMARY FOCUS ON THE BLACK

COMMUNITY.