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Madree Penn White
Founder Madree Penn White drafted the initial Constitution and Bylaws. She also designed the ceremony for inducting Honorary Members. Founder Madree Penn White set in motion the mechanism for creating other chapters. She designed the Sorority pin and served as the second president of Alpha Chapter and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority (1913 – 1919)
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.
What are the nine cardinal virtues
Compassion, courtesy, dedication, fellowship, fidelity, honesty, justice, purity, temperance
1st National President (name and fact)
Grand president for first national convention, creation of grad chapter
Ethel Cuff Black
First VP of alpha chapter, charter member of the queens alumnae chapter
Writers of the delta national hymn
who is Alice Dunbar Nelson and Florence Cole Talbert McCleave
Dedication dedicated to:
National presidents past and present
What year were graduate chapters authorized?
(40 bonus for the location)
1920, second national convention
Myra Davis Hemmings
She served as president of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and Alpha Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated,
Who were the first honorary members
Who is Nannie H. Burroughs, Gabrielle Pelham, Mary Church Terrell
Courtesy dedicated to:
Mothers of delta members
Established omega omega as memorial chapter
Who is Dorothy Pelham Beckley
Frederica Chase Dodd
First Sergeant at arms of alpha chapter, she helped to charter the graduate chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority in Dallas, Texas. The Eta Beta Chapter, which was changed to the Dallas Alumnae Chapter in 1960, became the first Greek-letter organization in the city
Women’s Suffrage March (full date)
(10 bonus points for explanation on suffrage)March 3, 1913
(the right to vote)
Compassion dedicated to:
Which convention approved regional conventions as a permanent solution
7th National Convention
Bertha Pitts Campbell
Born in Winfield, Kansas
On March 3, 1913, she participated in the Woman’s Suffrage March, Delta’s first public act as a Sorority. Sixty-eight years later, she repeated this momentous walk on August 2, 1981
Filed with the recorder of deeds (what and where)
Articles of incorporation & District of Columbia
Where are the nine cardinal virtues represented
The sorority pin
Ethel Lamay Calimese 26-29
Biennial Convention approved by delegate vote
Administration abolished duties of the Grand President and Grand Vice Presidents to allow regions to elect own regional directors