Delta's Stories of Triumph (DST in the News)

[ladygreek]

Originally Posted by PearlRhapsoDST

I'll have to do better. In my excitement to contribute, I didn't look at the date.

Thank you for bringing it to my attention Soror.

I love your energy.

[Ms Public Service]

The Board of Directors of The Coca-Cola Company Elects Alexis M. Herman as Director


ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 18, 2007--The Coca-Cola Company Board of Directors today elected former U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexis M. Herman as a Director of the Company, effective immediately. As part of her election, Secretary Herman was appointed to the Public Issues and Diversity Review Committee of the Board.

Secretary Herman served as America's 23rd Secretary of Labor and was the first African-American ever to lead the U.S. Department of Labor. Secretary Herman currently serves as chair and chief executive officer of New Ventures, Chair of the Diversity Advisory Board of Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., and is a member of the boards of directors of Cummins Inc., Entergy Corporation and MGM Mirage. She served as chairwoman of The Coca-Cola Company's Human Resources Task Force from 2001 to 2006.

Secretary Herman was appointed by President Jimmy Carter as the youngest director of the Women's Bureau in the history of the Labor Department.

A recipient of more than 20 honorary doctorate degrees from major colleges and universities, she also serves on the Board of Trustees of Xavier University of Louisiana and is a trustee of the National Labor College. Her nonprofit work includes the National Urban League and the National Epilepsy Foundation as well as her role as co-chair of the Bush Clinton Katrina Fund.

The Coca-Cola Company is the world's largest beverage company.

Along with Coca-Cola(R), recognized as the world's most valuable brand, the Company markets four of the world's top five nonalcoholic sparkling brands, including Diet Coke(R), Fanta(R) and Sprite(R), and a wide range of other beverages, including diet and light beverages, waters, juices and juice drinks, teas, coffees, energy and sports drinks. Through the world's largest beverage distribution system, consumers in more than 200 countries enjoy the Company's beverages at a rate exceeding 1.4 billion servings each day. For more information about The Coca-Cola Company, please visit our website at www.thecoca-colacompany.com.

http://www.blackprwire.com/display-news.asp?id=3546

[CrimsonTide4]

Soror Josephine Lightfoot Whitsett, Charter member of Gamma Iota, Lauded by the Charlotteville, Virginia Community


Josephine Lightfoot Whitsett, a retired high school counselor, devotes most of her time to her church, Ebenezer Baptist, and her sorority, Delta Sigma Theta. (The Daily Progress/Andrew Shurtleff)

Charlottesville has undergone some major transformations in the past eight decades. Schools have been desegregated. Neighborhoods have changed. The population has increased, as has traffic.

Josephine Lightfoot Whitsett, 84, has seen it all. Whitsett, who lives in the same house on Page Street in which she was born, worked as an educator in the city school system for nearly four decades and remains active in the community both through her public service sorority - Delta Sigma Theta - and her church - Ebenezer Baptist on Sixth Street.“I can’t even fathom the number of lives she has touched,” said Jacqueline Estes, who attended city schools and has taught at Charlottesville High School for 29 years. “She’s made a big impact across the city of Charlottesville on so many people, especially children.”

As a child, Whitsett fell in love with school.

“I was always infatuated with school,” Whitsett said. “And I like people, especially young people, so I think that motivated me to become a teacher.”

Read the rest here

[Minerva's Girl]

I will forward to my chapter sorors!

[CrimsonTide4]

By now, you've seen the movie The Great Debaters and you admired the character Samantha Booke portrayed by Jurnee Smollett. But did you know that Samantha Booke is really the story of Henrietta Bell Wells? Last week I did some research about Samantha which led me to Mrs. Wells. This morning I learned that Mrs. Wells is our Soror who is ill right now. She's also served as past president of Houston Alumnae chapter.





For some reason the Houston Chronicle article won't open for me, but here is another article from a closer source to Soror Wells.

[pinkies up]

CT4,
Why was I almost in tears after listening to this amazing woman?? These are the types of stories I love to read about!!

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally Posted by pinkies up

CT4,
Why was I almost in tears after listening to this amazing woman?? These are the types of stories I love to read about!!

Me too! In the Houston article, it mentioned how she worked 3 jobs at the same time while taking her classes and preparing for the debates. Talk about hard working.

I wish I had known the Houston article was temporary because I would have saved it to my hard drive.