About Us
Welcome to the Delta Tau Chapter of Kappa Delta website! We hope that this site serves as a useful guide to any young lady interested in sorority life and Kappa Delta or anyone who wants to know more about the Delta Tau Chapter. We are very proud of our heritage and accomplishments and encourage you to get to know us better.
National Kappa Delta Facts:
We were founded October 23, 1897 at State Female Normal School (now
We boast nearly 200,000 members throughout the world; 130 active collegiate chapters and 493 chartered alumnae associations nationwide.
Every sorority has certain emblems to represent their beliefs and values. The following are Kappa Delta’s:
Mascot: teddy bear
Symbols: nautilus shell, dagger, and katydid
Colors: olive green and pearl white
Jewels: diamond, emerald, and pearl
Flower: white rose
Service is an important part of Kappa Delta. We are the only sorority with four national philanthropies:
Prevent Child Abuse
Girl Scouts of the
Children’s Hospital,
Orthopaedic Research Awards
Kappa Delta’s Beliefs and Values are what guide our sisterhood. Every Kappa Delta lives by and embodies these standards every day.
Open Motto:
Ta Kala Diokomen
Let us strive for that which is Honorable, Beautiful, and Highest.
Our Vision:
Kappa Delta Sorority is committed to providing opportunities and experiences that inspire women to greatness.
Kappa Delta Sorority is a national organization for women committed to:
- Inspiring our members to reach their full potential;
- Preparing our members for community service, active leadership and responsible citizenship;
- Creating opportunities for lifetime involvement through innovative and responsive programs, and strategic collaborations and partnerships; and
- Fostering the development of our time-honored values within the context of friendship.
Purpose:
The purpose of Kappa Delta Sorority is to promote true friendship among the college girls of our country by inculcating into their hearts and lives those principles of truth, of honor, of duty, without which there can be no true friendship.
Object:
The object of Kappa Delta Sorority is the formation and perpetuation of good fellowship, friendship and sisterly love among its members; the encouragement of literature and education; the promotion of social interest; and the furtherance of charitable and benevolent purposes.
Creed:
May We, Sisters in Kappa Delta, strive each day to seek more earnestly the honorable and beautiful things. May We each day through love of those within our circle, Learn to know and understand better those without our circle. May the diamond shield that guards our love find us each day Truer, Wiser, More Faithful, More Loving, and More Noble.
Famous Kappa Deltas
· Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, Nobel Prize winning author
· Georgia O'Keeffe, renowned artist
· Claudia Kennedy, U.S. Army's first female three-star general
· Bonnie Dunbar, space shuttle astronaut
· Ruth Johnson Colvin, founder of Literacy Volunteers of America
· Donna Stone, founder of Prevent Child Abuse
· Joan Lowery Nixon, noted children's author ( 4 time winner: Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award)
· Patricia Wood Barnes, founder of Sister Schubert's Homemade Rolls
· Sara James, award winning television news correspondent
· Winsome McIntosh, philanthropist
· Janet Marie Smith, urban visionary, planner and business woman
· Cynthia Clark Wedel, first woman president of the National Council of Churches
· Margaret Holland Sargent, one of
· Hellene Runtagh, businesswoman
· Trischa Zorn, Paralympic athlete and champion swimmer
· Kathleen Babineau Blanco, first female to be elected Governor of the State of
· Patricia Polito Miller, co-founder of Vera Bradley Designs
· Christine O'Grady Gregoire, Governor of the State of
· Suzy Spafford Lidstrom, creator of Suzy's Zoo greeting cards and merchandise
· June Hunt, author, singer, speaker and founder of Hope for the Heart
· Marjorie Mehne Culmer, National President, Girl Scouts of the
· Debbie Maffett Wilson, crowned Miss
· Ali Landry, actress; Miss
· Ellen Albertini Dow, stage, television and movie actress (The Wedding Singer, Sister Act, and Wedding Crashers)
· Jean Carpenter Carnahan,
· Gloria Ray, established the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
· Mary Elizabeth Nickinson Chitty, editor of the Sewannee Review
· Nancy Thies Marshall, 1972 Olympic gymnast and four time National Team member
If you want to know more history or about membership visit the national website at www.kappadelta.org.