Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. members will celebrate the public service organization’s 100th anniversary starting with Founders’ Day weekend activities scheduled for Jan. 11-13 in Washington, D.C.
The Sorority was founded Jan. 13, 1913, at Howard University by 22 collegiate women in Downing Hall. As part of the yearlong celebration, a 22-city tour of the Delta Torch, which symbolizes the “passion and commitment to the organization’s global reach,” which kicked off in Los Angeles – with Delta’s historic participation in the 2013 Tournament of Roses Parade – and will continue through Seattle, Dallas, Little Rock, Detroit, Atlanta, Charlotte, New York City and Baltimore. The tour will culminate in Washington, D.C. at the 51st national convention which is scheduled for July 11-17, when it is passed to national president, signifying the start of the convention.
“We honor our founders and past national presidents as we bring the flame they ignited in us so many decades ago back to their cities and gladly carry the ever-burning torch of sisterhood, scholarship and service into the next 100 years,” says the sorority’s national president, Cynthia Butler-McIntyre.
She added that the stops represent jurisdictions that are “infused into the history of this organization.” The torch will also visit international chapters in Japan and Bermuda. At each location, programs will be held including historical reflections, music and acknowledgements from elected officials and other invited guests.
Delta Sigma Theta has more than 300,000 members in almost 1,000 chapters around the world.
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