1890-1983

Selected the Delta Motto

Member of the Repertory Playhouse Associates of New York

Actress

Directed “Days of Our Youth” which set the stage for Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte

Born in Illinois

Constant supporter of Alpha activities and projects

Studied French and Spanish

Was the French and Spanish Corresponding Secretary in Chi Town

Helped Alpha Nu Chapter purchase a sorority house @ University of Illinois

1893-1984

Born in Columbus, Ga

Custodian of the Alpha Chapter

1st Black Social Worker with the NYC & New York County Charities

6 kids

Ethel Cuff Black 

1890-

Social Studies teacher

Retired from New York School System

Charter member of the Queens (NY) Alumnae Chapter

Inquiries in The  Delta

Bertha Pitts Campbell 

Only Bl person in Montrose High School 

Graduated Summa cum laude and offered 4 yr scholarship to Colorado College

@ 92 (1981) led 10,000 Delta in march down DC to commemorate Founder’s march 

 100th bday, mayor and governor of Washington issued proclamation in her honor

Enthusiasm for life

Worked with YWCA and was Charter Member of Christian Friends for Racial Equality

Zephyr Chisom Carter 

1891-1976

One of 2 seniors in Crisis Magazine

Teacher in San Antonio TX

Moved to CA to do background music for movies and TV

Business College at night while working as security officer

Edna Brown Coleman 

“demure, lovely and lovable”

Considered most brilliant girl in the class

Married Frank Coleman, a Founder of Omega Psi Phi

Valedictorian

Class presidents

Jessie McGuire Dent 

Omega Omega 1948

Recording Secretary of the Alpha Chapter 

Texan

Key in the integrating Galveston public schools

@ her death, Galveston recognized her contributions by a display in the Texas Cultural Archives

Frederica Chase Dodd

Omega Omega: 1972

Helped establish YWCA for Black women in Dallas

Director of the Emergency Relief Stations for Blacks in her hometown

Charter member of Dallas Alumnae Chapter

Myra Davis Hemmings

Omega Omega: 1978

First President

Master’s in Speech From Northwestern University (IL)

Active in NAACP

Active in National Council for Negro Women 

1963, co-chaired Golden Anniversary, addressed by President Kennedy***DST, the only Bl women’s organization that Kennedy addressed

Involved in Alpha Phi Literary Society

Olive C. Jones

No office, but constant supporter

Music teacher in Washington School System

Did not marry

Jimmie Bugg Middleton

President and national treasurer of the National Association of Colored Women 

Served as Dean of Girls at the Black High School in Raleigh, NC

Helped Establish Raleigh Alumnae Chapter

Appointed to Scholarship Board in 22nd Congressional District

Pauline Oberdorfer Minor

Omega Omega: 1963

National treasurer of Alpha Chapter

Taught in AL, SC, PA

Musician--Wrote Echoes & Souls with 40 of her compositions

Vashti Turley Murphy

Omega Omega 1960

Four of her five daughters became Deltas

Active in Baltimore Alum Chapter 

Baltimore branch of National Association of College Women 

Naomi Sewell Richardson 

(1892-1993)

Last Surviving Founder

1st Bl graduate of Washingtonville HS 1910

Taught in IL, NJ, NYC

Married Clarence W. Richardson--Alpha member

Honored in Poughkeepsie NY, honored by Alumnae Ch for 90th bday

Mamie Reddy Rose

First Founder to enter Omega Omega Chapter

Won awards as dramatic reader

Married to Rev James E Rose

Died Feb 17, 1919

Eliza Pearle Shippen 

(1888-1981)

Magna Cum Laude from Howard

MA at Teacher’s College of Columbia

Ph.D English Language and Lit from U. Penn (only Founder to pursue Ph.D)

Did not marry

Florence Letcher Toms

Participated in various Civil Rts Organizations

Presented First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt at Mt Zion AME Church 

Prez William H Taft presented diploma to her graduating class

Collected elephants

Ethel Carr Watson 

Teacher for more than 30 yrs

2nd career as dramatic performer

Was forced to defy her family who forbade her from marching in the sorority’s first activity bc she was the tallest and had to hold the banner

Wertie Blackwell Weaver

Omega Omega 1971

Wrote In the Valley of the Poor abt poor Southern Blacks

Strong Supporter of Alpha Chapter activities

Madree Penn White

1891-1967

Accomplished linguist (German, French, Greek, Latin)

Developed constitution and by laws

Ceremony for inducting Honorary Members

Designed sorority pin 

Edith Mott Young 

Recording Secretary of Alpha 

Taught at Claflin College in SC

MA in Biblical Literature from Oberlin 

Moved to Youngstown OH After graduation