MAMIE REDDY ROSE
ELIZA PEARL SHIPPEN
FLORENCE LETCHER TOMS
ETHEL CARR WATSON
WERTIE BLACKWELL WEAVER
MADREE PENN WHITE
Soror Mamie Reddy Rose, a native of Beta, South Carolina, was the first of the founders to die in 1919. While at Howard University she won many awards for dramatic reader.
Soror Eliza Pearl Shippen, a native of Washington, D.C., graduated Magna Cum Laude from Howard University. She received her Master's from Columbia University's Teacher College. She received her PhD in English and Literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 1944. She was the second of our two founders to never marry.
Soror Florence Letcher Toms, a native of Washington, D.C., served as assistant principal at the Garnett-Patterson Junior High School in Washington, D.C. Her hobbies included collecting elephants and her collection contained several hundred.
She served on the Board of Directors (Family Welfare Association and the PTA).
Soror Ethel Carr Watson, a native of Parkersburg, West Virginia, was a teacher until she retired then began a second career as a dramatic performer.
Soror Wertie Blackwell Weaver, a native of Kansas City, Missouri, wrote a novel entitled
The Valley of the Poor. The book was concerning poor blacks in the South.
Soror Madree Penn White, a native of Atschison, Missouri, served as the 2nd President of Alpha Chapter. While at Howard, she became the 1st woman editor of the campus paper. Finally, Soror White set in motion the mechanism for the creation of other chapters.