Days 1-2

Question 1

Name the five events from 1913.

Answer 1

1. alpha chapter received the certificate of incorporation on February 18, 1913.
2. First five years- they offered membership to honors students as a commitment to high standards of scholarship.
3. Established the loan assistance fund for sorors with financial difficulties which lasted through the Great Depression
4. In march, participated in the Women’s Suffrage March
5. Early public service with the Children’s Ward of the Freeman’s Bureau

Question 2

1919

Answer 2

1. Held first national convention from December 27 to December 30.
2. First honorary members: Gabrielle Pelham, Mary church Terrell and Nannie H. Buroughs

Question 3

1920

Answer 3

Graduate chapters were authorized

Question 4

1921

Answer 4

May week was established

Question 5

When was Mary McLeod Bethune initiated?

Answer 5

1923 as an honorary member

Question 6

Delta Hymn

Answer 6

Written in 1924 by Alice Dunbar Nelson and Florence Cole Talbert

Question 7

Jabberwock

Answer 7

Adopted in 1925 by the iota chapter

Question 8

National incorporation year

Answer 8

1930 by a record of incorporation filed at the library of congress

Question 9

1931

Answer 9

First Delta directory published

Question 10

First national handbook published

Answer 10

1934

Question 11

1935

Answer 11

Committee created to revise the ritual- ratified in 1939 national convention

Question 12

1927

Answer 12

Voted to hold national conventions biennially, first beginning in 1929 with 10th convention

Question 13

Thrust of DST

Answer 13

Public service projects for the public good

Question 14

New bond as a sacred vow of membership

Answer 14

Membership in delta Sigma Theta is a lifetime commitment

Question 15

Sacred trust

Answer 15

Induction of new members into delta Sigma Theta is the sorority’s most sacred trust

Question 16

Three rites of passage

Answer 16

Pyramid Induction Ceremony, initiation ceremony and omega omega service

Question 17

Sisterhood

Answer 17

Committed to strive as sisters to achieve public service goals that are consistent with our basic values and beliefs

Question 18

Black

Answer 18

Predominately black members; we must carry in each successive generation the historic memory of a people’s struggle and survival

Question 19

College

Answer 19

Key component of identity is the college-based organization by college educated Women for college educated woman. College movement with an academic base- requires high scholastic achievement

Question 20

Women

Answer 20

Identified with women’s issues since the founders participated in the suffrage March. We advance as we struggle through the double handicap of race and sex

Question 21

Public service

Answer 21

Organizational Thrust. Outward projects are a manifestation of our inner values

Question 22

Delta oath

Answer 22

Written by Mary church Terrell in 1948