Dr. Sadie Tanner Mossel Alexander () *1* - ANSWERS*from Philadelphia; first woman to receive a PHD in econ; helped found the national bar association;charter member of the Gamma Chapter*
-1st National Convention created
-authorized graduate chapters
-Grand Chapter created
-May Week adopted
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Dr. Sadie Tanner Mossel Alexander (1919-1923) *1* - ANSWERS*from Philadelphia;
first woman to receive a PHD in econ; helped found the national bar association;charter
member of the Gamma Chapter*
-1st National Convention created
-authorized graduate chapters
-Grand Chapter created
-May Week adopted
(Gabrielle) Dorothy Pelham Beckley (1923-1926) *2* - ANSWERS*from DC and was a
teacher*
-Introduced the use of printed forms for reports, applications, and other formal
documents.
-The Delta Sigma Theta Bulletin was published.
-Delta Hymn adopted (music-florence cole talbert, words-Alice Dunbar Nelson)
-Regional conferences were approved
-new nomenclature system and Established Omega Omega as a memorial chapter
-Jabberwok was introduced by the Iota chapter during her presidency
Ethel Lamay Calimese (1926-1929) *3* - ANSWERS-fell ill in the 2nd year of her
presidency
-Biennial Conventions approved;
-National Vigilance Committee approve
Dr. Anna Johnson Julian (1929-1931) *4* - ANSWERS*from Maryland but sent to High
School in Philadelphia; first African American woman to receive a PhD in sociology from
UPenn*
-Offices of Grand Secretary & Grand Treasurer bonded
-Work of Vigilance Committee continued
-Grand Chapter incorporated under DC laws (January 20 1930)
-creation of the Jubilee Year (1930-re evaluate the values of the organization)
Gladys Byram Shepperd (1931-1933) *5* - ANSWERS*from Memphis; Author ("Mary
Church Terrell: Respectable Person")*
-First formal Delta Directory published
-National Boards component of organizational structure created
-Central Region established
-compromise for the inclusion o "b" rated schools=have 7 years to become "A" schools
, Dr. Jeanette Triplett Jones (1933-1935) *6* - ANSWERS**PhD from UChicago and was
a teacher in the area*
-NPHC was established
-Vigilance committee thrived, cooperated with NAACP and worked not only on a
national level, but through local chapters as well ("Omega Sigma, a graduate chapter in
Berkeley, was able to get conessions from the school board in South Berkeley after it
threatened to close down schools in the district.")
Vivian Osborne Marsh (1935-1939) *7* - ANSWERS-Library Project was initiated under
her presidency
-worked with Walter White to lobby for antilynching bill
-appointed as state supervisor in the Negro Affairs Division of the National Youth
Administration--Program under the New Deal
Dr Helen Elsie Austin (1939-1944) *8* - ANSWERS**first black woman to graduate from
University of Cincinnati's College of Law; first Black woman to serve as assistant
attorney general of the state of Ohio**
-created a procedure so the treasurer would receive payment of fees and other monies
directly
-proposed the job analysis project (1. looked into new job opportunities open to white
women but not black women, 2. help secure positions for black women that were open
to them, 3. make working conditions better for domestic workers)
-wartime support, the sorority bought $5,000 worth of United States Defense Bonds-
local chapters bought bonds as well
-Victory Book Drive launched in 1942=collect books for servicemen's use in military
camps
-put Delta on the mailing list of all important government initiatives concerning the war"
Mae Wright Downs Allen Peck Williams (1944-1947) *9* - ANSWERS**a Phi Beta
Kappa graduate of Tufts University and got a masters from NYU**
-new position of undergraduate coordinator was created-->undergrads wanted to feel
represented in the policy making body
-the organization made its first donation of 1000$ to the United Negro College Fund in
1945
-implemented book baskets project
-National programming =5 point program(1. fostering education; 2. employment; 3.
housing; 4. race; 5. intercultural relations-->evolves over time)
-
Dorothy Irene Height (1947-1956) *10* - ANSWERS**won the presidential medal of
freedom in 1994**
-longest serving president of DST
-American Council on Human Rights was created (1948)
-1st foreign chapter-part-au-prince, haiti (1950)
-National HQ building-1814 M Street in WashingtonDC
-funded the maternity wing renovation at the Thika Memorial Hospital in Nairobi Kenya
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