[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 528]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




   RECOGNIZING THE 101ST ANNIVERSARY OF DELTA SIGMA THETA SORORITY, 
                              INCORPORATED

  (Ms. CLARKE of New York asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. CLARKE of New York. Mr. Speaker, as a proud member of the 
Brooklyn Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, 
it is my deepest honor to extend warm wishes to my sorority on our 
101st Founders Day.
  Established on January 13, 1913, by 22 young women at Howard 
University in Washington, D.C., the women of Delta Sigma Theta soon 
demonstrated their commitment to social justice, public service, and 
active participation in our civil society.
  The women of Delta Sigma Theta worked to support academic excellence 
at their colleges and universities and to provide assistance to women 
in need.
  In 1950, its first overseas chapter was established in Port-au-
Prince, Haiti. The sorority currently has more than 900 chapters 
located in the United States, England, Japan, Germany, the Virgin 
Islands, Bermuda, the Bahamas, and the Republic of Korea.
  Many very prominent corporate, public, and community leaders are 
members of the sorority, including the chair of the Congressional Black 
Caucus, the Honorable Marcia Fudge, who is a past national president of 
Delta, and the Honorable Congresswoman Joyce Beatty of Columbus, Ohio.
  My predecessor in Congress, the Honorable Shirley Chisholm, was also 
a member of Delta Sigma Theta. Her work as an activist and an elected 
official provides an example of the capacity of leadership that the 
sorority has developed in generation after generation of young, 
college-educated women.
  To the women of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, Happy 
Founders Day.

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