Founded:
October 23, 1897 at State Female Normal School (now Longwood University), Farmville,
Virginia
Membership:
Over 180,000 throughout the world
National Headquarters:
3205 Players Lane
Memphis, Tennessee 38125
(901) 748-1897; (800) 536-1897
Symbols & Mascots:
Ladybug (local) , Nautilus shell , Teddy Bear , Dagger and Katydid
Colors:
olive green and pearl white
Jewels:
diamond, emerald, pearl
Flowers:
white rose
National Philanthropies:
Children’s Hospital, Prevent Child Abuse America, Orthopedic Research Seals,
and Girl Scouts
Kappa Delta 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.
Kappa Delta 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.
Kappa Delta 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.
Kappa Delta Open Motto
Ta Kala Diokomen Let us strive for that which is honorable, beautiful
and highest.
Kappa Delta Mission Statement
Kappa Delta is a national organization of women committed to a two-fold
purpose: to provide a secure, stabilizing environment for personal growth
to its collegiate members, and to provide a lifelong association of friendship
and enrichment to its alumnae members. Kappa Delta provides experience
in group living and offers the opportunity to learn leadership and interpersonal
skills that equip members to assume positions of responsibility in the
world of career, community and society. Kappa Delta encourages academic
achievement, respect for learning and development of organizational skills
that prepare college women for attaining their goals in life. Kappa Delta
teaches the value of altruism, belief in human dignity and concern for
fellow human beings - timeless principles adopted by the sorority's founders
in 1897. Kappa Delta looks to the past for its convictions, the present
for its opportunities and the future for its dreams.
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