Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

Mu Phi Chapter

National History Mu Phi History Table of Contents

CONGRATULATIONS TO MU PHI CHAPTER FOR 25 YEARS OF

SISTERHOOD, SCHOLARSHIP, & SERVICE!!!

NATIONAL HISTORY

On January 13, 1913 on the campus of Howard University twenty-two young, scholarly, and ambitious black women founded what has today become the largest Black Greek Letter Organization for African American women. These young women wanted to use their collective strength to promote academic excellence and to provide assistance to persons in need. Our founders were interested in establishing an organization committed to the promotion of high cultural, intellectual, and moral standards among its members for its own benefits as well as for that of the larger society in which it existed.

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority is dedicated to the ideals of Sisterhood, Scholarship and Public Service. In accordance with these ideals, Delta has established a long and glorious history of educational, cultural, political, and social service in the public's interest. To further its public service goals, Delta Sigma Theta operates under a Five Point Program Thrust:

Delta Sigma Theta's Five-Point Thrust

Economic Development

Educational Development

International Awareness and Involvement

Physical and Mental Health

Political Awareness and Involvement

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated is a private, nonprofit organization whose purpose is to provide services and programs to promote human welfare. As a public service organization Delta Sigma Theta has traditionally addressed the issues of the time. In 1913, our founders marched among thousands of others in the women's suffrage march. In 1980 Soror Bertha Pitts Campbell, one of our distinguished founders, and 17th National President, Mona Humphries Bailey, led 8,000 Deltas in a reenactment of that historic march in Washington, D.C. On March 26,1995 Deltas also participated in a march commemorating the 75th anniversary of the women's suffrage march of 1913.

Today, our glorious Sisterhood has a membership

of over 190,000 predominately African-American, college-educated women. The Sorority currently has 900-plus chapters located in the United States, Japan, Germany, Bermuda, Haiti, Liberia, the Bahamas, the Republic of Korea and the Virgin Islands.

Past National Presidents

1st President	Sadie T. M. Alexander, Ph.D.	1919-1923
2nd President	Dorothy Pelham Beckley	1923-1926
3rd President	Ethel LaMay Calimese	1926-1929
4th President	Anna Johnson Julian	1929-1931
5th President	Gladys Byram Shepperd	1931-1933
6th President	Jeannette Triplett Jones	1933-1935
7th President	Vivian Osborne Marsh	1935-1939
8th President	Elsie Austin	1939-1944
9th President	Mae Wright Downs Peck Williams	1944-1947
10th President	Dorothy I. Height	1947-1956
11th President	Dorothy P. Harrison	1956-1958
12th President	Jeanne L. Noble	1958-1963
13th President	Geraldine P. Woods	1963-1967
14th President	Frankie M. Freeman, Esq.	1967-1971
15th President	Lillian Pierce Benbow	1971-1975
16th President	Thelma Thomas Daley	1975-1979
17th President	Mona Humphries Bailey	1979-1983
18th President	Hortense Golden Canady	1983-1988
19th President	Dr. Yvonne Kennedy	1988-1992
20th President	Bertha M. Roddey, Ph.D.	1992-1996
21st President	Marcia L. Fudge, Esq.	1996-2000
22nd President	Gwendolyn E. Boyd	2000- Present

MU PHI HISTORY

The Mu Phi Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta was

chartered on February 14, 1976 on the Campus of GMI Engineering and Management Institute. Today, about 25 years later, the ladies of Mu Phi continue to strive for excellence in academics and to be a service to all.

Our Chartering Sorors are:

Theola Barrett