Deaf/Hearing Impaired Greek Chapters
 

Does anyone else have a hearing impaired (deaf) chapter or belong to a local deaf group? Tri Sigma has a deaf chapter, and we were the first NPC chapter to have one. I think it's amazing and met a representative this summer at our national convention in Florida. We have an interpreter every national event and it just reminds each and every one of us how different we can be.

I'd like to hear about anything else out there similar.
Thanks!

What a coincidence...
 

Interesting that you mention this today, Tracie...check out my latest post to the "U&CNG of the Week!" thread. :)

Delta Zeta's national philanthropy is Gallaudet University and it is a school for the hearing impaired and of course there is a DZ chapter there!

Right you are, dzsaigirl! One of the sisters in my alumnae chapter is Gallaudet's CCD and we celebrated Founders' Day with them this year. Delta Zeta is the only NPC sorority at Gally and, although they only number in the twenties, they are very active! I believe all of the members are hearing-impaired with the exception of one who is majoring in Deaf Studies there. We definitely kept her busy translating all evening!

We also funded the dance studio at Gallaudet. It is called, aptly enough, the Delta Zeta Dance Studio! :)

I know at our sigma kappa chapter they have a sister who is deaf, she represented them in the Lambda Chi Alpha Watermelon bust pageant. She is very nice and their chapter is all learning sign language.. she can read lips though, and is a true asset to their chapter!
Sarah

Like a couple of my sisters have already mentioned, Delta Zeta's national philanthropy is Gallaudet University for the Hearing and Speech Impaired, and we do have a chapter there.

I also know that the ADPi chapter on my campus had a very involved hearing-impaired sister who pledged the same year I did. Her disability never stopped her from doing things she loved.

She was a very intelligent woman with a wonderful GPA, and she competed in beauty pageants during her college years. If I remember correctly, she was a representative in the Miss Georgia pageant in the early 90's, and she may have even won that title. It's been so long ago now that I can't remember the outcome of the pageant that year. Regardless of whether she won or not, she was a definite asset to her chapter and the Greek system in general! :)

Kappa Sigma has a chapter at Gallaudet University - they are a thriving chapter, and the guys there are amazing brothers.

D Phi E used to have a chapter at Gallaudet that started in 1988, but apparently closed. Congrats to all the great work you DZ's do for them and the university!

Thanks, shadokat! :) :D :cool:

I was wondering, out of all the names you mentioned......I noticed no one really mentioned much about deaf members that are not in a Deaf univeristy or an unversity with a high Deaf population. We just started a local hearing/deaf sorority at CSUS.

Sorry, this is totally inappropriate, but when I read this paragraph I thought of the line from Ms. Congeniality..."I had winners 9 out of ten years, and that year the winner was a deaf mute, you can't beat a deaf mute".... sorry, back to your regularly scheduled thread...

Re: Deaf/Hearing Impaired Greek Chapters
 

While we are on the topic of chapters and people who hearing impaired, this is a wonderful warm & fuzzy thread..... :)

KSig, I agree. We had a mixer with Kappa Sigma last fall, and a couple of your brothers from Gallaudet came to the mixer. I took a few years of sign language in high school, and so did a couple of other girls, so I think all of us had a really great time, no one seemed to be left out of anything. But yes, AWESOME guys, and we're looking forward to hanging out with them again!!:D

The TKEs here have a deaf member majoring in aerospace engineering. He's a member of the crew team as well. Sweet kid, and one hell of a hitter at softball too!

What was your motivation for starting a hearing/deaf sorority? It seems to me that if the primary goal is to have a sorority for deaf members, then you wouldn't call it a hearing/deaf sorority...because deaf women are always welcome to join any sorority