Delta Founders, SVA

Which founder was born in Illinois, and a constant supporter of Alpha Chapter.

• Marguerite Young Alexander

  
  

• Florence Letcher Toms

• Myra Davis Hemmings

• Edith Motte Young

 Became the first Black social worker for the New York City and County Charities, and she was Alpha Chapter’s first custodian.

• Eliza Pearl Shippen

• Winona Cargile Alexander

  
  

• Jessie McGuire Dent

• Vashti Turley Murphy

First vice president of Alpha Chapter, She was the first Black teacher in Richmond County, NY, charter member of Queens (NY) Alumnae Chapter.

• Mamie Reddy Rose

• Edna Brown Coleman

• Myra Davis Hemmings

• Ethel Cuff Black

She also taught drama at Bennett College and served as Directress of the Harlem School of the Arts

• Zephyr Chisom Carter

• Wertie Blackwell Weaver

• Osceola Macarthy Adams

  
  

• Ethel Cuff Black

she participated in the Woman’s Suffrage March, Delta’s first public act as a Sorority. Sixty-eight years later, she repeated this momentous walk on August 2, 1981.

• Jimmie Bugg Middleton

• Winona Cargile Alexander

• Bertha Pitts Campbell

• Eliza Pearl Shippen

was a very gifted woman who was not only a singer, but an actress as well. For several years she harnessed her vocal powers and sang for television shows

• Madree Penn White

• Edna Brown Coleman

• Zephyr Chisom Carter

• Edith Motte Young

graduated from Howard in 1913 as valedictorian and class president; married a founder of Omega Psi Phi.

• Edna Brown Coleman

• Olive Claire Jones

• Ethel Cuff Black

• Vashti Turley Murphy

first corresponding secretary of Alpha Chapter; She became a teacher in the Galveston School District and was instrumental in integrating the schools.

• Ethel Cuff Black

• Myra Davis Hemmings

• Jessie McGuire Dent

• Frederica Chase Dodd

She was the first sergeant-at-arms of Alpha Chapter; she helped to charter the graduate chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority in Dallas, Texas. The Eta Beta Chapter, which was changed to the Dallas Alumnae Chapter in 1960, became the first Greek-letter organization in the city

• Jessie McGuire Dent

• Edna Brown Coleman

• Myra Davis Hemmings

• Frederica Chase Dodd

  
  

She served as president of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and Alpha Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated,

• Myra Davis Hemmings

• Osceola Macarthy Adams

• Federica Chase Dodd

• Winona Cargile Alexander