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Its publication is The Delta. [5] Delta Sigma Theta's colors are crimson and cream, representing courage and purity. [6] [41] The sorority's symbol is Lady Fortitude. [41] Its other symbols are the pyramid and the Delta torch. Its flower is the African violet. [6] The sorority's mascot is the elephant. [6] Its nicknames are Deltas and DST.
Female students at Brown University, approximately 45 miles from Tufts, created the women's fraternity Delta Sigma (local) in 1896. [ 5 ] Phi Gamma was a women's society established at the University of Maine in February 1897 and was the first sorority on campus.
In Ohio Marietta's catalogue (1933), the sorority is listed as "Sigma Sigma Delta National Open Sorority" (p. 23) By 1938, all chapters had dissolved or disaffiliated. Northwestern's went to Phi Omega Pi. Baldwin-Wallace's reorganized as local Theta Tau Delta, then affiliated with Phi Mu. The sorority's official colors were green and white.
The council's membership expanded as Alpha Phi Alpha (1931), Phi Beta Sigma (1931), Sigma Gamma Rho (1937), and Iota Phi Theta (1996) later joined. [5] In his book on BGLOs, The Divine Nine: The History of African-American Fraternities and Sororities in America (2001), Lawrence Ross coined the phrase "The Divine Nine" when referring to the ...
At age 92, Campbell led 10,000 members of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority in a march down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., to commemorate the participation of some members of the organization in the suffrage march of 1913. Having long survived her husband and son, she spent her final years in a Seattle nursing home and died peacefully at ...
Madree Penn White (November 21, 1892 – January 31, 1967) was an American editor, educator, businesswoman and suffragist. She was one of the founders of Delta Sigma Theta , and the sorority's second president.
The sculpture was unveiled on April 28, 1979, at 3:15pm by members of Delta Sigma Theta, to honor the founders of the service sorority. The sculpture is described as symbolizing "the attributes of strength, courage, hope, wisdom, beauty and femininity as depicted by the 22 founders of Delta Sigma Theta". [2]
In 1997 Delta Theta Sigma colonized the University of Minnesota Crookston Chapter with much help from the Men of Delta chapter. Theta chapter was officially recognized as a chapter at the 1998 Conclave hosted by Delta chapter. At its beginning, Theta chapter was renting a house located at 101 North Nelson, Crookston, MN. They now reside in a ...