Protocol and Traditions
Taught at Claflin College in Orangeburg, S.C
Edith Motte Young
List the seven regions of the Sorority.
Central Region, Eastern Region, Farwest Region, Midwest Region, Southwest Region, South Atlantic Region, Southern Region
Commissioned by the Sorority and unveiled at Howard University in 1979
What is the Fortitude Pin.
Last surviving Founder in 1993; the first Black graduate of Washingtonville High School; married a member of Alpha Phi Alpha
Who currently serves on the National Executive Committee?
National President: Elsie Cooke-Holmes
National First Vice-President: Pamela E Smith
National Second Vice-President: Dee Dee Kong National Secretary: Joi L. Moore
National Treasurer: Pamela R. Hill
This pin was designed by Founder (________) This pin is worn over the heart, only by a duly initiated member of the Sorority. Comprised of three Greek letters, Delta, Sigma and Theta.
Madree Penn White; What is the Sorority Pin.
Author of the novel “The Valley of the Poor” about poor Blacks in the South.
Wertie Blackwell Weaver
Name three of the current National Committees.
Answers may vary
Presented First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to parents at the John Wesley AME Zion Church in 1945; had interactions with multiple US Presidents including William H. Taft and John F. Kennedy.
Florence Letcher Toms
Designed by Epsilon Chapter, Ohio State University and adopted in 1920 at the second National Convention
The Pyramid Pin
What is the significance of the why Delta Sigma Theta chose the African Violet as the official flower?
Because it grows at the corners of the earth. (can be seen everywhere)
Graduated from the first public high school for Blacks in the U.S. known as Dunbar H.S. in Washington, D.C.
Vashti Turley Murphy
These are never written, but are transmitted orally from one Delta to another. When do you learn these?
What is the secret motto, the handshake, the distress signal and the Delta knock. One will learn them at the time of initiation into the sorority.
Recite the Delta Oath.
I will strive to reach the highest educational, moral and spiritual efficiency which I can possibly attain. I will never lower my aims for any temporary benefits which might be gained. I will preserve my health for however great ones mental and moral strength may be, physical weakness prevents the accomplishment of much that otherwise might be done.