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The Kappa Delta Vision

Kappa Delta Sorority is committed to providing opportunities and experiences that inspire women to greatness

The Kappa Delta 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.

 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.


 

Famous Kappa Delta's

 
In Kappa Delta, we continue to share our pride in those KDs who have become successful in their respective fields. From astronaut to artist, here is a sampling of the outstanding women who have worn our Greek Letters:
 

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, Nobel Prize winning author
Georgia O'Keeffe,
renowned artist
Claudia Kennedy,
U.S. Army's first female three-star general
Bonnie Dunbar
, space shuttle astronaut
Ruth Johnson Colvin,
founder of Literacy Volunteers of America
Donna Stone,
founder of Prevent Child Abuse America
Joan Lowery Nixon,
noted children's book author
Patricia Wood Barnes,
founder of Sister Schubert's Homemade Rolls
Sara James,
award winning television news correspondent
Winsome McIntosh,
philanthropist
Janet Marie Smith,
urban visionary, planner and business woman
Cynthia Clark Wedel, first woman president of the National Council of Churches
Margaret Holland Sargent, one of America's leading portraitists
Hellene Runtagh,
businesswoman
Trischa Zorn,
Paralympics athlete and champion swimmer
Kathleen Babineau Blanco,
first female to be elected Governor of the State of Louisiana
Patricia Polito Miller,
co-founder of Vera Bradley Designs
Christine O'Grady Gregoire,
Governor of the State of Washington
Suzy Spafford Lidstrom, creator of Suzy's Zoo greeting cards and merchandise
June Hunt,
author, singer, speaker and founder of Hope for the Heart
Marjorie Mehne Culmer,
National President, Girl Scouts of the USA, elected 1957
Debbie Maffett Wilson, crowned Miss America in 1983
Ali Landry,
actress; Miss USA 1996
Ellen Albertini Dow,
stage, television and movie actress
Jean Carpenter Carnahan,
U.S. Senator, Missouri 2000-2002
Gloria Ray,
established the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
Mary Elizabeth Nickinson Chitty,
editor of the Sewanee Review
Nancy Thies Marshall,
Olympic gymnast


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
Kappa Delta Fast Facts

Founded

October 23, 1897 at State Female Normal School (now Longwood University), Farmville, Virginia

Membership

Nearly 200,000 throughout the world; 130 active collegiate chapters and 493 chartered alumnae associations nationwide

National Headquarters

3205 Players Lane, Memphis, Tennessee 38125
(901) 748-1897; (800) 536-1897

Symbols & Mascots

Nautilus Shell, Dagger, Teddy Bear and Katydid

Colors

Olive Green and Pearl White

Jewels

Diamond, Emerald and Pearl

Flowers

White Rose

National Philanthropies

Girl Scouts of the USA
Prevent Child Abuse America
Children's Hospital, Richmond, Virginia
Orthopaedic Research Awards