Wow, this is a lovely question. This is a question that I have asked myself and am ready to answer.
In high school, one of the most important women was my high school assistant principal, who encourage and helped me through Senior Year and guided me through college decisons and told me about her college years. It is because of her that I knew of the exsistance of soroity's, however until I came to college, I never knew what they were about or what they stood for.
My freshman year of college, I had the pleasure of meeting and knowing a woman of Delta Sigma Theta Soroity. Just the presence of her alone command the respect of everyone where ever she went and whatever she did recieved the attention of of everyone there. From the few blackgreeks that we had on campus this lady truly exeplified what it meant to be an African American woman reprenting an historically black soroity. Proud, respectful, and strong...just to name a few of her qualities.
Because of her I decided to do research, however I did not limit my research to Delta Sigma Theta but it was not long before I realize exactly what it is about DST...
It is the commitment to the community, the strong bond of sisterhood, and the high reguard of excellence that drew me to Delta Sigma Theta. Just from the book In Search of Sisterhood, my passion about DST began to grow and continues. Finding out new things everyday about the orgaization helps me to shape simple passion for the organization into complete and ultimate love.
With this, I called home to my assistant principal telling her what I had learn and explaining to her why I would like to be a member of DST. To my surprise, she told me that she is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Soroity Inc. I was happy and suprised, however my amazement did not last long for she embodied the qualities that I saw in the woman of DST that I had met on campus. She was strong, independent, respectful, and proud for she also was A woman of DST.
To be apart of such wonderful women.....wow!!
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*Amor es una cosa esplendida*
[This message has been edited by hopefulpassion (edited April 23, 2001).]
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