Happy Founders Day Ladies!!:D

This is the day (this is the day)...
That the Lord has made (that the Lord has made)...
I will rejoice (I will rejoice)...
And be glad in/with it...(and be glad in/with it)
This is the day that the Lord has made...

uh oh! Wrong venue! :D

Happy Founder's Day to all those who represent Delta Sigma Theta, Inc! :cool:

Happy Founder's Day, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., and especially to your GC members.
:)

Very Cute AKA2D. :p

Happy 92nd Founders Day, Delta Sigma Theta!!! :D

LOL.

Happy Founders' day Sorors.

Happy Founders Day Sorors!!!

Congratulations to the Ladies of Delta Sigma Theta, Inc. for your years of service to the community. Happy Founders Day!

Congratulations and Happy Founder's Day!

Congrats, and Happy Founders' Day to all the Deltas! If it weren't for the Deltas in my life, I would have ended up on a totallly different path. Thanks for all the good work you do, keep it up!

R4L :D

Happy Founders' Day, Sistergreeks!

HAPPY FOUNDERS DAY TO MY DEVESTATING SORORS
 

I'D LIKE TO SAY HAPPY FOUNDERS DAY TO MY SORORS, SANDS AND LINE SISTERS. IT'S A GREAT DAY TO BE A DELTA GIRL!! :)


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FABULOUS FOUNDERS!!
I am HONORED to call their names!

Names of such world-changing character
WARRIOR Names! On Community battlefields!

OUR SORORS...

In Texas, FREDERICA CHASE DODD became one of the state's earliest Black social workers with United Charities.

FLORENCE LETCHER TOMS - was active in many civil rights organizations and is also remembered for contributing her collection of elephants to the Deltas.

MYRA DAVIS HEMMINGS - first President of the Alpha chapter of Delta, active in the NAACP and the National Council of Negro Women.

These are names that evoke images of:

ARMOR against injustice!!
SWORDS against segregation and separatism!!
SENTRYS for service and scholarship!!

HUMMPH!!
FABULOUS FOUNDERS!
FABULOUS FIRED-UP FOUNDERS!

Targeting their talents toward Truth!
Talent??!!

Talk about Talent!!!

Talent!!!

T - Teacher at Claflin College, South Carolina - EDITH MOTTE YOUNG.

A - An Actress - Brilliant on stage, we're told - OSCEOLA MCARTHY ADAMS.

L - Last Founder to make her journey "Home" in 1993 at 100 years of age - NAOMI SEWELL RICHARDSON.

E - Earning both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees at Howard University, she was national treasurer of the National Association of College Women - JIMMIE BUGG MIDDLETON.

N - Novelist - wrote "The Valley of the Poor" - WERTIE B. WEAVER.

T - Texan - one of two Texan founders of DST, her portrait is on permanent display for her civic contributions to the City of Galveston, Texas - JESSIE MCGUIRE DENT.

These Sisters SERVED their communities!!!

HUMMPH!
FABULOUS FOUNDERS!
FABULOUS FIRED-UP FIERCE FOUNDERS!!

Can you grasp the magnitude???
Each one reached one way back then!
The Deltas filtered into the community
touching those less fortunate than ourselves
marking the doors of our people

with DELTA

Can we help?
Sister, here's a hand;
Brother, let's lock arms and fight for progress...

Founding Delta Sigma Theta on Christian principles
The Faithful, spirit-filled women of DST!

PAULINE OBERDORFER MINOR - hymn writer and soprano soloist.

BERTHA PITTS CAMPBELL - Leading Civil Rights Activist - had her Homegoing Service at 100 years old! Tell me that the Lord didn't spare her for a century because she had a job to do!

HUMMPH!
FABULOUS FOUNDERS!
FABULOUS FIRED-UP FIERCE FAITHFUL FOUNDERS!!

Strong names!

VASHTI TURLEY MURPHY - active with the Baltimore Alumnae Chapter, had 4 Delta daughters;

MADREE PENN WHITE - designed the sorority's pin and had 1 Delta daughter, Ms. Grace White Ware.

ETHEL CUFF BLACK - a social studies teacher who married a black real estate agent - BACK IN THE DAY!

HUMMPH!
FABULOUS FOUNDERS!
FABULOUS FIRED-UP FIERCE FAITHFUL FEMININE FOUNDERS!!

Magna cum laude and Doctor of English Literature, ELIZA P. SHIPPEN.

MARGUERITE YOUNG ALEXANDER - a French and Spanish corporate secretary.

Though she journeyed from THIS life in her early 30's MAMIE REDDY ROSE was an acclaimed dramatic reader.

Teacher and musician, OLIVE JONES!

Alpha Chapter's FIRST CUSTODIAN, from Columbus, Georgia by way of Jacksonville, Florida, WINONA CARGILE ALEXANDER!

Teacher, security officer, and chorus singer for film and tv shows, ZEPHYR CHISOM CARTER.

Outstanding physics professor, native of Washington, DC, and wife of one of the founders of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, EDNA BROWN COLEMAN.

Teacher, dramatic performer, and at her leisure, ceramic artist, floral arranger, AND painter, ETHEL CARR WATSON.

THESE 22 FOUNDED DELTA SIGMA THETA SORORITY,INCORPORATED ON JANUARY 13, 1913!

HUMMPH!
FABULOUS FOUNDERS!
FABULOUS FIRED-UP FIERCE FAITHFUL FEMININE FOUNDERS of D-S-T!!

HUMMPH!

FABULOUS
FOUNDERS!



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Written by Soror Crystale Stevenson Marrow