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Mission statemet - 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
Sorority Pin founder - ANSWER -Madree Penn White
Who is Madree Penn White - ANSWER -Founder and 2nd president of sisterhood
Pin is composed of what? - ANSWER -3 greek letters of DST
The S in DST - ANSWER -composed of 9 jewels that represent 9 cardinal virtues that are the foundation
of DST
What are the 9 virtues - ANSWER -compassion
courtesy
dedication
fellowship
,fidelity
honesty
justice
purity
temperance
1st jewel in Sigma - ANSWER -compassion
it is the essence of human spirit
-dedicated to the founders of DST
2nd jewel - ANSWER -courtesy
-dedicated to mothers of Delta members
3rd jewel - ANSWER -dedication
-dedicated to national presidents past/present
Nellie Quander - ANSWER -Grad member of A.K.A that wanted to keep A.K.A. and objected to name
change
2 women who supported A.K.A name change - ANSWER -Madree Penn White
Myra Davis Hemmings
Feb 18, 1913 - ANSWER -Delta's alpha chapter is granted a certificate of incorporation
DST early public service project - ANSWER -sorority adopted the children's ward at Freeman's hospital
, December 27-30 1919 - ANSWER -First national convention in Washington, D.C.
Who were the first honorary member(s) of DST- 1919 - ANSWER -Nannie H. Burroughs
Gabrielle Pelham
Mary Church Terrell
1920 - ANSWER -Grad chapters authorized
1921 - ANSWER -May week established
1922 - ANSWER -establishing the housing fund, sinking fund, the scholarship award fund, and the college
tuition fund
1923 - ANSWER -Mary McLeod Bethune, Honorary member intitiated
1924 - ANSWER -Delta Hymn written and composed by sorors Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Florence Cole
Talbert
1925 - ANSWER -Iota Chapter adopts Jabberwock
1927 - ANSWER -Vote to conduct national conventions biennially beginning with the 10th national
convention in 1929
1930 - ANSWER -DST was incorporated by a record of incorporation filed in the Library of Congress in
Washington, DC
1931 - ANSWER -First formal Delta Directory published