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Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Mission Statement - ANSWER 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.
At what national convention was Grand Chapter created? - ANSWER 1st National Convention
To whom or to what group is the Jewel Temperance dedicated to? - ANSWER National Staff
What was the purpose of the National Vigilance Committee? - ANSWER To keep in touch with the political and civic activities of the country as they affected the negro race in general
Name the nine jewels - ANSWER Compassion, Courtesy, Dedication, Fellowship, Fidelity, Honesty, Justice, Purity, Temperance
Delta Sigma Theta was Incorporated in what year? - ANSWER 1930
The Jewel Compassion is dedicated to whom or what group? - ANSWER The Founders of DST
Which Honorary Member wrote the Delta Oath? - ANSWER Mary Church Terrell
What three chapters were in attendance at the First National Convention? - ANSWER Alpha Chapter, Gamma Chapter, and Epsilon Chapter
What is the meaning of the Jewel Dedication? - ANSWER To a noble cause is one of humanity's highest calling and an act of consecration
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Name the elements of the Minerva Circle of Identity. - ANSWER Sisterhood, Black, College, Women, Public Service
Who designed the Sorority crest? - ANSWER F. Ailene Marks and Jeannette Tripplet Jones
On what university campus was Delta Sigma Theta Sorority founded? - ANSWER Howard University
Name the writers of the Delta Sigma Theta National Hymn. - ANSWER Alice Dunbar Nelson and Florence Cole Talbert McCleave
What were the first two graduate (now called alumnae) chapters authorized by Delta Sigma Theta? - ANSWER New York City and Washington D.C.
What is the purpose of Jubilee Year established in 1929? - ANSWER hundreds of Delta women would rededicate themselves to the sorority
Name the four funds established under the 1st National President Sadie Tanner Mosell Alexander - ANSWER Housing Fund,
Sinking Fund, Scholarship Award Fund, College Tution Fund
How many principles provide the overall framework for all the initiation activities? - ANSWER 9
Who was the first Honorary Member initiated into Delta Sigma Theta? - ANSWER Nannie H. Burroughs
At what convention was Mary McLeod Bethune initiated? - ANSWER 5th convention in December of 1923
The Jewels representing the Nine Cardinal Virtues are located on which Greek letter on the Delta pin? - ANSWER Sigma
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Edna Brown Coleman - ANSWER President and valedictorian of her graduating class; married a Founder of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.
Jessie McGuire Dent - ANSWER First Corresponding secretary of Alpha Chapter; instrumental in integrating the Galveston Public School System.
Frederica Chase Dodd - ANSWER First Sergeant-at-Arms of the Alpha Chapter; Charter member of the Dallas Alumnae Chapter.
Myra Davis Hemmings - ANSWER First President of the Alpha Chapter; was an active member of the NAACP and the National Council of Negro Women.
Olive Claire Jones - ANSWER Accomplished pianist who taught school in Washington, D.C.
Jimmie Bugg Middleton - ANSWER President and National Treasurer of National association of College Women; Dean of Girls at the Black High School in Raleigh, N.C.
Pauline Oberdorfer Minor - ANSWER The first treasurer of the Alpha Chapter; author of "Get off the Judgment Seat."
Vashti Turley Murphy - ANSWER Mother of five daughters, four of whom became Deltas; member of the Baltimore Branch of the National Association of College Women.
Naomi Sewell Richardson - ANSWER Last surviving founder when she died in 1993; the first Black graduate of Washingtonville High School.
Mamie Reddy Rose - ANSWER First of the Founders. to enter into the Omega Omega Chapter on Feb. 17,
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Eliza Pearl Shippen - ANSWER Graduated magna cum laude from Howard University; received her M.A. and PhD.
Florence Letcher Toms - ANSWER 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.
Ethel Carr Watson - ANSWER Teacher for more than 30 years then began a career in dramatics.
Wertie Blackwell Weaver - ANSWER Author of the novel entitled "The Valley of the Poor" about poor blacks in the South
Madree Penn White - ANSWER Accomplished linguist who spoke German, French, Greek, and Latin; designed ceremony for inducting Honorary Members; first woman of the campus paper, The Howard University Journal.
Edith Motte Young - ANSWER Served as Alpha Chapter's first Recording Secretary. Taught at Claflin College in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
