Which DST Founder would you like to meet?

[DSTilmatic_1913]

I would like to meet Osceola Macarthy Adams and Marguerite Young Alexander, who also founded my chapter...Magnificent Lambda Chapter, on the campus of the University of Chicago, where I graduated from in June of 2001.

[KoolAid]

If I were granted the opportunity to meet any founder, I would like to meet Osceola Macarthy Adams. I am interested in what it was like to be one of the first African-American women to perform on Broadway. I am interested in knowing the many obstacles she had to overcome and ways she dealt with everything that was going on in her day. I also would ask her what aspect of Delta she feels needs the most work or what is more distant from the ideas she and the other founders had when they founded the organization.

[candygirl]

It has taken me awhile to decide which one of your illustrious founders I would really want to meet. Of course it would be a pleasure to meet all of them but Myra Davis Hemmings is the "one" founder I would like to meet and chat with. Before the founding of Delta Myra Davis Hemmings was the president of Alpha Kappa Alpha. I think that it would be interesting to hear her account of the dissatification the group had for the sorority, as well as her own personal account as the president of such an organization that wasn't favorable to the members. I just want to know how she came to gripps with the fact that something needed to be done and just how she reacted to Madree Penn White's ideas to change the name, motto, color, and flower. I think that would have been a bit much to take in, even though they all new a change was needed.

[Lizanabavi]

This is difficult because I would want to meet all of your founders, but, if I had to narrow it down it would be:

Winona Cargile Alexander - She contributed much to the welfare
of others here in Florida.

Vashti Turley Murphy -I had an opportunity to hear her
granddaughter Bishop Vashti Murphy
Mckenzie speak. Powerful!!!

Edith Motte Young -She was an effective educator.

[4MYPEOPLE]

I would have done anything to meet Sadie TM Alexander... She is my idle. I ran across her name about 10 years ago when I was in high school. I went to a high school that did not have many African Americans, and when I told my advisor (who was black) that I was thinking about being a lawyer, she wanted me to have a black woman to look up to and admire and she gave me her name. I looked her up, and knew from her strength and conviction that I could do it! She was the first black woman to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania (an Ivy League School) with a law degree and PhD and the first in the country. She changed Penn and black women in law as we know it.

I have worked hard to achieve my dreams and in the fall I will be attending the University of Pennsylvania Law School. I thank her for her inspiration....

[CrimsonTide4]

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[Erratic]

I'd have loved to meet:

Vashti Turley Murphy because she seemed like such a spiritual woman (not that the others weren't), Olive Jones (cuz there's not a lot of info out about her), Madree Penn White & Osceola McCarthy Adams (to find out how they went about shaking everything up with the AKAs), and I'd also love to hear stories from Ethel Cuff Black & Bertha Pitts Campbell, about the initial rivalry, the "discussions" they must have had with the campus "bosses" about the founding.

Dang, y'all, I wanna just sit in the center of ALL of 'em and be like : Oooh, y'all, tell me EVERYTHING!!!

Erratic

[taylaur_2000]

I would like to meet all 22 Amazing Founders of DST. To hear from them what their driving force was in 1913 against all odds and at such a young age. I would be awestruck!

[Monique]

This one is hard But ..I would like to meet Soror Vashti Turley Murphy simply becasue I have the honor of having her great granddaughter as my LS!!

[blackerican]

Originally posted by taylaur_2000
I would like to meet all 22 Amazing Founders of DST. To hear from them what their driving force was in 1913 against all odds and at such a young age. I would be awestruck!

I agree 1000%!!!!! I would like to meet them all!!!!

[mocha frapp]

Mrs. Ethel Carr Watson

During the historic march for Women’s Suffrage, Mrs. Watson confided that her family told her not to march, but was forced to defy the order because she was selected to hold the banner since she was the tallest.


I could see me doing/saying something like this!

[DST4A00]

I would love to meet Soror Campbell cause she had spunk. I love hearing about some of the things she had to say.

I would love to meet "Ms. Vash" as the diva was called..

I would love to meet Soror Adams, due to her love of art.

I would love to ask all of them how members were chosen back then, how college life was back then, how Howard was, How the AKAs treated them once they got their ish back together...

Hell, we just need to have a good old fashion Alpha chapter reunion cookout.

[DST4A00]

Originally posted by stillwater15
i agree w/you wholeheartedly. from the history i've learned and from talking w/older sorors, very little is known about her, after graduation, w/the exception that she was a music teacher.

it would seem that even from the beginning there was someone who went ghost after pledging/graduation.

[RedAngel]

I would love to meet all 22 but especially Mamie Reddy Rose since she shares the same first name as a grandparent and is from the same state---South Carolina.

I know this person is not a founder but I had a chance to meet Soror Betty Shabazz before her passing and it was an experience I'll never forget.

[treblk]

Originally posted by RedAngel
I know this person is not a founder but I had a chance to meet Soror Betty Shabazz before her passing and it was an experience I'll never forget.

I also meet Soror Shabazz, before I was a member, and was in awe of her. She spoke at my school my freshmen year and it was great. Made my decision that more important!