A lifetime devoted to Delta

[mulattogyrl]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
I found pics:

@ Ohio University with Epsilon Iota Sorors

Wow. Just wow.

[teena]

This is a wonderful article. I'm glad you posted it.

The national past presidents know White-Ware. Past president Hortense Canady recalls that during the 1980s, White-Ware fought bitterly against lowering the required grade-point average for prospective Deltas to 2.3 - a change the sorority eventually made and lived to regret, she said.

I didnt realize that such a small change would have such a drastic outcome in membership.

When Grace attended Harriet Beecher Stowe Teachers College in St. Louis in the 1940s and her friends pledged a rival sorority, Sigma Gamma Rho, she considered doing likewise. She didn't care for the Delta chapter on her campus. "All my friends were Sigmas. Every one of them. The Deltas liked the light-skinned ones, the damn-near-white ones, and I wasn't damn-near-white," she said.

The idea didn't go over well with mom, who threatened her daughter with bodily harm.

[Boom_Quack13]

Thank you soooo much for bumping this thread. I'd never read this article, until now.

[MsDelta797]

I just read this article and it just makes me really proud to be a woman of the distinguished Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated.

[DeltaVero]

Thanks for the article soror. Reading stories like this gives me chills. This soror is a direct descendant of one of our Founders. WOW! Sorors in Ohio better take advantage and go see this soror. She has some stories to tell. I luv me some Delta Dears.

[ladygreek]

Originally posted by DeltaVero
Thanks for the article soror. Reading stories like this gives me chills. This soror is a direct descendant of one of our Founders. WOW! Sorors in Ohio better take advantage and go see this soror. She has some stories to tell. I luv me some Delta Dears.

Trust, they have been told the stories.

[DeltaVero]

Originally posted by ladygreek
Trust, they have been told the stories.

Soror I know you have been told some of the stories, too. I'm looking forward to meeting and chatting with you. Make sure you bring pictures, scrapbooks, etc. to Philly. We got some things to discuss.

[jojapeach]

That was a wonderful story! Indeed, thank you for bumping this thread. I love encountering living history of any of our organizations.

Edited for spelling

[ladygreek]

Originally posted by DeltaVero
Soror I know you have been told some of the stories, too. I'm looking forward to meeting and chatting with you. Make sure you bring pictures, scrapbooks, etc. to Philly. We got some things to discuss.

Yep. I was on Grace's birthday card list until I moved and I haven't seen her since then to give her my new address. (I last saw her at the 90th.) I still have a book she sent me that recounts all of the historical things that had happened on October 25. In it she writes..from one Oct. [baby] to another Oct. [baby]

Some of the stories I have heard involve the shenanigans she and my mother used to get into as single women, so those WILL NOT be shared.

[Sen's Revenge]

Rest in peace: http://obits.cleveland.com/obituarie...&pid=187441276