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Vision
Kappa Delta Sorority is committed to providing opportunities and experiences that inspire women to greatness.
Creed
May we, sisters of Kappa Delta strive each day to seek 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.
Mission Statement
Kappa Delta Sorority is a national organization for women committed to:
- inspiring our members to reach their full potential
- preparing our members for community service, active leadership, and responsible citizenship
- creating opportunities for lifetime involvement through innovative and responsive programs, and strategic collaborations and partnerships; and
- fostering the development of our time-honored values within the context of friendship
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.
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.
Live GREAT
Growth through lifetime learning
Responsibility for our own integrity and ethical actions
Engagement in social and civic interests
Altruistic service to others
Truth and loyalty to each other for a lifetime
Ta Kala Diokomen
Let us strive for that which is honorable, beautiful, and highest.
Five areas of concentration that make up chapter excellence
Leadership Academic excellence Membership Philanthropy Social success
Four founding members
Lenora Ashmore Blackiston
Sara Turner White
Mary Sommerville Sparks Hendrick
Julia Gardiner Tyler Wilson
Symbols
Nautilus shell, dagger, diamond shape
International holidays
International Women’s Friendship Month - September
International Girls Day - November 14
Kappa Delta Foundation
Established in 1981 to secure funds for the educational, leadership, and charitable purposes of the sorority
Historical Philanthropies
Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU
Orthopedic Research Awards
Philanthropies
Girl Scouts of the USA
Prevent Child Abuse America
Founders Day
October 23, 1897 at State Female Normal School (Longwood University) in Farmville, Virginia