Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated is an organization of college educated women, committed to the constructive development of its members and to public service with a primary
focus on the Black community.
focus on the Black community.
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Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated is an organization of college educated
women committed to the constructive development of its members and to public service with a primary focus on the Black community. Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated. is a private, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to provide assistance and support through established programs in local communities throughout the world. Since its founding more than 300,000 women have joined the organization. The organization is a sisterhood of predominantly Black, college educated women. The sorority currently has 1,000 collegiate and alumnae chapters located in the United States, Canada, Japan (Tokyo and Okinawa), Germany, the Virgin Islands, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Jamaica and the Republic of Korea. The major programs of the Sorority are based upon the organization’s Five-Point Programmatic Thrust: ● Economic Development ● Educational Development ● International Awareness and Involvement ● Physical and Mental Health ● Political Awareness and Involvement For more information, visit our national website at www.deltasigmatheta.org. Springfield Alumnae Chapter
Realizing that the Springfield community was in need of a service organization such as Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and that the young Black women in the community needed positive role models such as Delta women could provide, an attempt was made by Sorors Clara Childs and Lillie Hickerson in 1976-77 to get all Delta women in the area together in order to establish an Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. in Springfield, MA. This attempt, as well as several others, failed. They were unable to generate enough interest to find the required twelve (12) sorors.
In late 1980, a group of five younger Sorors, Denise Ewin, Robyn Frances, Cynthia Roberson, Andrea Stone, and Deborah Heath Carpenter worked with Soror Hickerson and presented a proposal and application for a charter to National. They were informed that they had to become financial. They again searched for twelve (12)members, this time being successful. Dues were submitted in June 1981 as members-at-large. In November, 1981 they were notified that a charter for an Alumnae chapter had been approved. Soror Dorothy Stanley, Eastern Regional Director, was contacted to set up a date for the chartering ceremony. On December 5, 1981, Springfield Alumnae Chapter was officially chartered as a Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. |