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First Jewel dedicated to Founders - Answer- Jewel of Compassion Second Jewel dedicated to Mothers of Delta - Answer- Jewel of Courtesy Third Jewel dedicated to National President past and present to dedicate ones self to a noble cause as an of consecration. - Answer- Jewel of Dedication Fourth Jewel dedicated to the Chapters of Delta Sigma Theta - Answer- Jewel of Fellowship Fifth Jewel dedicated to Honorary members - Answer- Jewel of Fidelity Sixth Jewel dedicated to national officers past and present - Answer- Jewel of Honesty Seventh Jewel dedicated our ancestors - Answer- Jewel of Justice Eighth Jewel dedicated to deceased soror - Answer- Jewel of Purity Ninth Jewel dedicated national staff - Answer- Jewel of Temperance selected the Delta mottoes was Dean of Music at Howard University, was Directress of the Harlem School of the Arts, - Answer- Osceoloa Macarthy Adams Born in Chicago, Illinois , Helped Alpha Nu Chapter purchase a house - Answer- Margurerite Young Alexander Alpha Chapter first custodian, first Black Social Worker for New York City and County Charities - Answer- Winona Cargile Alexander First vice president Alpha Chapter, Charter member of Queens, NY Alumnae - Answer- Ethel Cuff Black Participated in the Woman's Suffrage March two times the second was on August 2,
- Bequethed a scholarship - Answer- Bertha Pitts Campbell Alpha Chapter reporter was a gifted singer and actress was featured on TV show. - Answer- Zephyr Chisom Carter Graduated in 1913 as valedictorian and was class president, held the chapters earliest meeting in her living room - Answer- Edna Brown Coleman
First corresponding secretary of Alpha Chapter, won court case for equal wages for Black teachers - Answer- Jessie Mcguire Dent She was first sergeant at arm of Alpha Chapter, helped to charter the graduate chapter of Delta Sigma Theta. YWCA for Black women in Dallas TX - Answer- Frederica Chase Dodd First president of Alpha Chapter, Helped Charter San Antonio Alumnae Chapter, was addresed by President John F Kennedy - Answer- Myra Davis Hemmingsway Was a music Teacher in Washington D.C - Answer- Olive C Jones Was dean of Girls at public school,in Raliegh N.C, lobbied Delta Sigma theta to participate in Woman's Suffrage March - Answer- Jimmie Bugg Middletown First treasurer of Alpha Chapter, Authored the book Get off the Judgement Seat, - Answer- Pauline Oberdorfer Minor Graduated from the first black public school, Grandaughter served as the National Chaplan. - Answer- Vashti Turley Murphy Last surviving founder passed in 1993 First Black graduate of Washingtonville, NY - Answer- Naomi Sewell Richardson From Beta South Carolina first founder to enter in Omega Omega - Answer- Mamie Reddy Rose Only Founder to receive a doctorate degree - Answer- Eliza Pearl Shippen Introduced First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to John Wesley AME Zion Church, received her gradation diploma - Answer- Florence Letcher Toms Teacher for more than thirty years, dramatic performer as well - Answer- Ethel Carr Watson Wrote the book The Valley of the Poor - Answer- Wertie Blackwell Weaver Designed the ceremony for honorary members , and desgigned the sorority spoke German, Latin, Greek, French, - Answer- Madree Penn White Taught at Chaflin College recieved MA in biblicl studies from oberlin college - Answer- Edith Motte Young Delta sigma that become incorporated what year - Answer- 1930
The pyramid induction ceremony The initiation ceremony the Omega Omega Serivce are what - Answer- Three Rites of Passage Five elements of Minerva Circle Identity - Answer- Sisterhood Black College Women Public Service 7th President 1935- Choose to Lead Delta into involvement with the Civil Rights movement Revision of the Sorority Ritual National Library Project provided books to black in the south Purchased Headquarter building - Answer- Vivian Osborne Marsh 8th President 1939-1944 First Black Woman to graduate from UC Law school Job analysis for jobs that were currently closed to Black women Created National Second Vice president for undergraduates Victory Book Drive for current warriors - Answer- Helen Elsie Austin 9th President 1944- Focused her tenure on Votings Rights and Womens equal rights and Education contributed to NAACP Urban League UNCF Financial Contributions to the YWCA - Answer- MAE WRIGHT PECK WILLIAMS 10th National President 1947- Established Delta Five point project/programmatic thrust Purchase of the national head quarters building Changed graduate chapters to alumnae chapters First Executive Director was hired Big female leader of Civil Rights Movement - Answer- Dorothy Irene Height Dorothy Penman Harrison 1956 - 1958 Burned the mortgage on the First National Headquarters Held the First Delta Christmas Party Established Delta Newsletter - Answer- Dorothy Penman Harrison 12th National President 1958- Served on National Commission for President Johnson for Women's Job corps Participated in March on Washington on August 28, 1963 - Answer- Jeanne L. Noble Protocol For Founders Respect and Recognition - Answer- Names should listed on Founder Day programs there pictures are not for casual use
Protocol for Presidents - Answer- Past and present Presidents chapter president must ask the president how they wish to participate, sorors must remain standing until President is seated Protocol Honorary members - Answer- They are members and membership stands when they are introduced to closed for Delts only assembly Delta DEARS Dedicated Energetic Active Respected Sorors - Answer- Deltas age 62 or older, if give feedback say "thank you my sister" Delta Sweet Heart song - Answer- Sway on May hold hands first four phrases can be solos can be sung to bride, at Delta and greek functions, and The sorority pin - Answer- designed by Madree Penn White Comprised of three letters of Delta Sigma Theta The Pyramid Pin - Answer- Epsilon Chapter The Fortitude Pin - Answer- The Diamond Jubilee Pin - Answer- Millennium Pin - Answer- The sorority Flower - Answer- Sorority Crest - Answer- Designed by F Aliene Parks and National President Jeannette Triplett Jones Sacred Vow - Answer- Membership in Delta Sigma Theta is a lifetime committee The Torch of Wisdom represents sorority motto - Answer- Red Candle represent it Sacred Trust - Answer- Induction of new members into delta sigma theta is the sorority's most sacred trust 7 regions - Answer- Central, Eastern, Farwest, Midwest, South Atlantic, Southern, Southwest. Traditional Delta programs - Answer- Founders Day, May week, Jabberwock 14th National President 1967- Reclamation and Retention of members Focused on Raising poverty and consciousness li First woman appointed to the US Commision on Civil Rights
The Delta House World AIDS Day Mission of Trips Adopt-a-Child/ Sponsor-a-Child - Answer- International Development Summit V HIV/AIDS Lifestyle Healthy Lifestyle: The total Woman, Mind, and Spirit African American Literacy Project Delta Right to Read Project Delta Teen Lift Delta Youth Days in the Nation's Capital DST Scholarship Fund and College Tuition Loan Fund National Library Project The Bookmobile Project Book Baskets Delta Future Educators Clubs School America Expanded The Distinguished Professor Endowed Chair Delta GEMS Growing and empowering myself successfully Black College Convocation The Maryland Educational Oppurtunity Center Dr. Beatty Shabazz Delta Academy Embod - Answer- Educational Development Honorary membership recommended by a member of chapter to Special Committee for Honorary Special Committee for Honorary members recommended to National Executive Board 2/3 of vote of National Executive board Initiated during National Convention Closest to the candidates acceptance of the sorority's invitation to beceome honorary member - Answer- Procedures to become an honorary member Summit V HIV/AIDS Lifestyle Healthy Lifestyle: The total Woman, Mind, and Spirit My Cry in the Dark - Answer- Physical and Mental Health Voters registration Delta Day at Capital Hill Delta Research Educational Foundation - Answer- Political Awareness 20th National President 1992- Established a partnership with Habitat for Humanity for build 22 homes
Ritual and Ceremonies Comission was establisehd - Answer- Bertha M Roddey 21st National President 1996- Established the Dr. Beatty Shabazz Delta Academy Instituted Summit V Health and Healing Let it Begin Within - Answer- Martha L Fudge 22nd National President 2000- Developed SEE Science in Everyday Experience Implemented Technology into the registration for Regional Conference and National Conventions - Answer- Gwendolyn E Boyd 23rd National President 2004- Delta Gems established Human Relief Task Force Goal Strengthen and Highlight the Sisterhood - Answer- Louise A Rice 24th National President 2008- Known as a leader with a servant's heart Educator From Louisana Appointed by President Obama to Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation 2011 - Answer- Cynthia M.A. Butler-McyIntre 25th National President 2013-present - Answer- Paullette C Walker Current National Positions. - Answer- Current Executive Order - Answer- First Honorary memebers 1919 - Answer- Mary - Answer- Japan, Jamaica, North Korea, Bermuda, Germany, England, - Answer- National Chapters Roseline Mckinney - Answer- Executive Director Appointed for National Convention (ONLY) - Answer- National Parlamntarian, National Chaplan, Natioanl Sargent of Arms Washington D.C and New York city - Answer- First two graduate chapters Locations Ok yeah scholarship, sisterhood and service and all that would ennoble. - Answer- Pyramid motto Alpha Beta Gamma Delta Epsilon Zeta Theta Iota Kappa Lambda Mu Nu Xi Omicron Pi Rho Sigma Tua Upsilon Phi Chi Psi Omega - Answer- Greek Alphabet
