Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated The Grand Chapter History
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated is a non-profit public service organization and was founded on January 13, 1913, by twenty-two female students at Howard university in Washington, D.C. These students demonstrated a vital concern for social welfare, academic excellence and cultural enrichment, de-emphasizing the social side of sorority life. The first articles on incorporation of Alpha Charter were filed with the Recorder of Deeds, the District of Columbia on February 18, 1913. In 1930, the organization was incorporated as a private, non-profit organization for the purpose of providing services and programs to promote human welfare. From the first undergraduate chapter Alpha Chapter, the sorority has grown to an organization of 1,060 graduate and undergraduate chapters with more than 350,000 members nationally and internationally in countries such as West Germany, Haiti, Liberia, the Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Canada, and Africa. On December 27, 1919, the first National Convention of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated was assembled at Howard university with Soror Sadie T.M. Alexander presiding. In 1920, the first graduate chapters were formed in New York City and Washington, D.C., providing an opportunity for women who had already completed their college training to join the sisterhood on the graduate level. Today, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated is a public service sorority dedicated to a program of sharing membership skills and organizational service in the public interest. The Five-Point Programmatic Thrust of the Sorority are as follows: Economic Development, International Awareness and Involvement, Physical and Mental Health, and Political Awareness and Involvement. The International President and Chair, Board of Directors is Elsie Cook-Holmes. The Sorority’s national headquarters is located in Washington, D.C.
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