DAT Test Questions and Answers22
1st jewel in Sigma - ANSWERS-compassion
it is the essence of human spirit
-dedicated to the founders of DST
2nd jewel - ANSWERS-courtesy
-dedicated to mothers of Delta members
3rd jewel - ANSWERS-dedication
-dedicated to national presidents past/present
Nellie Quander - ANSWERS-Grad member of A.K.A that wanted to keep A.K.A. and objected to
name change
2 women who supported A.K.A name change - ANSWERS-Madree Penn White
Myra Davis Hemmings
Feb 18, 1913 - ANSWERS-Delta's alpha chapter is granted a certificate of incorporation
DST early public service project - ANSWERS-sorority adopted the children's ward at Freeman's
hospital
December 27-30 1919 - ANSWERS-First national convention in Washington, D.C.
Who were the first honorary member(s) of DST- 1919 - ANSWERS-Nannie H. Burroughs
,Gabrielle Pelham
Mary Church Terrell
1920 - ANSWERS-Grad chapters authorized
1921 - ANSWERS-May week established
1922 - ANSWERS-establishing the housing fund, sinking fund, the scholarship award fund, and
the college tuition fund
1923 - ANSWERS-Mary McLeod Bethune, Honorary member intitiated
1924 - ANSWERS-Delta Hymn written and composed by sorors Alice Dunbar-Nelson and
Florence Cole Talbert
1925 - ANSWERS-Iota Chapter adopts Jabberwock
1927 - ANSWERS-Vote to conduct national conventions biennially beginning with the 10th
national convention in 1929
1930 - ANSWERS-DST was incorporated by a record of incorporation filed in the Library of
Congress in Washington, DC
1931 - ANSWERS-First formal Delta Directory published
1934 - ANSWERS-First national handbook published
, 1935 - ANSWERS-committee established to revise the ritual- ratified at the 1939 national
convention
1st national president - ANSWERS-1919-1923
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
2nd national president - ANSWERS-1923-1926
G. Dorothy Pelham Beckley
3rd national president - ANSWERS-1926-1929
Ethel Lamay Calimese
4th national president - ANSWERS-1929-1931
Anna Johnson Julian
5th national president - ANSWERS-1931-1933
Gladys Byram Shepperd
6th national president - ANSWERS-Jeannette Triplett Jones 1933-1935
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander - ANSWERS-1st national president (1919-1923)
First black to be awarded Ph.D
First black woman to be admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar
Served as the official legal advisor of the sorority
1st jewel in Sigma - ANSWERS-compassion
it is the essence of human spirit
-dedicated to the founders of DST
2nd jewel - ANSWERS-courtesy
-dedicated to mothers of Delta members
3rd jewel - ANSWERS-dedication
-dedicated to national presidents past/present
Nellie Quander - ANSWERS-Grad member of A.K.A that wanted to keep A.K.A. and objected to
name change
2 women who supported A.K.A name change - ANSWERS-Madree Penn White
Myra Davis Hemmings
Feb 18, 1913 - ANSWERS-Delta's alpha chapter is granted a certificate of incorporation
DST early public service project - ANSWERS-sorority adopted the children's ward at Freeman's
hospital
December 27-30 1919 - ANSWERS-First national convention in Washington, D.C.
Who were the first honorary member(s) of DST- 1919 - ANSWERS-Nannie H. Burroughs
,Gabrielle Pelham
Mary Church Terrell
1920 - ANSWERS-Grad chapters authorized
1921 - ANSWERS-May week established
1922 - ANSWERS-establishing the housing fund, sinking fund, the scholarship award fund, and
the college tuition fund
1923 - ANSWERS-Mary McLeod Bethune, Honorary member intitiated
1924 - ANSWERS-Delta Hymn written and composed by sorors Alice Dunbar-Nelson and
Florence Cole Talbert
1925 - ANSWERS-Iota Chapter adopts Jabberwock
1927 - ANSWERS-Vote to conduct national conventions biennially beginning with the 10th
national convention in 1929
1930 - ANSWERS-DST was incorporated by a record of incorporation filed in the Library of
Congress in Washington, DC
1931 - ANSWERS-First formal Delta Directory published
1934 - ANSWERS-First national handbook published
, 1935 - ANSWERS-committee established to revise the ritual- ratified at the 1939 national
convention
1st national president - ANSWERS-1919-1923
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
2nd national president - ANSWERS-1923-1926
G. Dorothy Pelham Beckley
3rd national president - ANSWERS-1926-1929
Ethel Lamay Calimese
4th national president - ANSWERS-1929-1931
Anna Johnson Julian
5th national president - ANSWERS-1931-1933
Gladys Byram Shepperd
6th national president - ANSWERS-Jeannette Triplett Jones 1933-1935
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander - ANSWERS-1st national president (1919-1923)
First black to be awarded Ph.D
First black woman to be admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar
Served as the official legal advisor of the sorority
