Everyone is invited to participate in IAC’s Delta GEMS & Delta Academy Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser. Come enjoy a pancake breakfast (includes beverage) to support youth our programming for girls!
Saturday, November, 13 2010
8:00 am -10:00 am
Longhorn Steakhouse
5840 West 86th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46278
Tickets are $5 in advance, $7 at the door. All proceeds benefit the Delta GEMS and Delta AcademyContact info: deltagems@dstiac.com.
It’s Memory Walk time again. Please join Team Wood and walk to end Alzheimer’s Disease. Team Wood walks in honor of Soror Doris V. Wood and all other sorors and families who experience Alzheimer’s Disease. Doris was initiated in Chi Chapter in 1945 which represents 65 years in Delta. Participating in the Memory Walk raises money for research. It does make a difference! Soror Wood continues to thrive as well as she does because the research helps those who take care of her to learn about the disease and do the very best they can with her care.
JOIN IAC FOR DELTA DINNER AND A MOVIE
THIS FRIDAY, 8/27/10 AT 7:00PM
AMC SHOWPLACE 12 @ TRADERS POINT
5920 West 86th Street Indianapolis, IN 4627
Delta Sigma Theta’s National Commission on Arts & Letters
has endorsed “Takers” starring T.I., Idris Elba, Zoe Saldana, and many more BLACKbuster celebrities!
Friends, family, and the general public are welcome.
Learn more about the Indianapolis Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. at www.dstiac.com
Immediately following the movie,
members (only) of Delta Sigma Theta
will gather for food and fellowship at O’Charley’s
3851 Vincennes Road, Indianapolis, IN, 46268
New and reclaimed Sorors are encouraged to attend.
Contact Deidre D. Gray, Arts & Letters Chair to RSVP
at artsnletters@dstiac.com for assistance or further details!
Our Team Members were, Soror Sandra Anderson, Soror Brittiny Clinton, Soror LaTasha Stubblefield and Soror Karen Kelly.
The Team placed 2nd this year in bowling and 1st for the Highest Fundraiser Award for Sororities with a total of $484. Soror Anderson got 2nd place for Highest Individual Fundraiser for Sororities collecting a total of $370. We also had two Sorors win door prizes. Soror Pettigrew and Soror Shaunda Davis. Thank you to the Sorors who came and supported our event. Check out the photos below. Stay tuned for upcoming NPHC events. June 4th-Greeks in the Streets Party and June 5th-Greeks in the Streets Picnic.
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Indianapolis, IN (March 25, 2010) – When most people hear DST they think of springing their clocks forward for Daylight Saving Time, but for 43 area students preparing to spring towards their futures, DST stands for Delta Sigma Theta!
On Sunday, March 28, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Indianapolis Alumnae Chapter (IAC) will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its Black College Tour. There will be a ribbon-cutting ceremony as this year’s participants board the bus for a six-day tour of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee.
“As a former Black College Tour participant, to having the opportunity to serve on the committee as student coordinator, I have personally seen the positive impact this program has had over the past 25 years for both parents and students,” said Rachelle Hardiman Bible, Chapter President. “The Black College Tour allows students to see for themselves what Historically Black Colleges and Universities have to offer. It is a joy to know the chapter has provided this opportunity to more than 1000 high school students since its inception. We are very proud to sponsor an educational program that makes a positive impact on young people and is still on the road to success after 25 years.”
The anniversary celebration begins Sunday at 8:45 a.m. DST at the Martin Luther King Community Center, 40 West 40th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46208. The bus departs for the tour at 9:00 a.m. DST. The chapter will recognize one of the tour originators, Ms. Doris Wheatley. Students, parents, sorority members and friends will also be on hand for the milestone event.
In conjunction with the 25th anniversary of the Spring Tour, IAC is currently accepting applications for its Fall 2010 Black College Tour. The trip is planned for October 21 – October 24, 2010. It is open to current freshmen, sophomores and juniors interested in visiting the following: Wilberforce University, Central State University, Fisk University, Tennessee State University and Meharry Medical College. For more information visit: www.dstiac.com. The application deadline is April 30, 2010.
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Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. was founded in 1913 on the campus of Howard University to promote academic excellence; to provide scholarships; to provide support to the underserved; educate and stimulate participation in the establishment of positive public policy; and to highlight issues and provide solutions for problems in their communities. Today Delta Sigma Theta Sorority has more than 250,000 members and nearly 1,000 chapters worldwide. The Sorority uses its Five-Point Programmatic Thrust of economic development, educational development, international awareness and involvement, physical and mental health, and political awareness and involvement to create its national programs.
In honor of Sisterhood Month, our Delta Bookmark March Selection is The Love Child’s Revenge by our national Delta Spotlight Author, Soror Nicole Bailey-Williams!
Claudie “Peach” Fryar is a vixen. Born to a mother who works as a domestic for the Harrisons, an affluent African American family who resides in Philadelphia’s East Oak Lane section, Claudia has felt like an outsider all of her life. She’s chubby, she stutters and she grows up with her nose pressed against the windowpane, peering in on the lives of the privileged Harrison girls. It’s not enough that they grew up attending elite events and holding membership in exclusive clubs, but the matriarch of the Harrison clan seem to revel in torturing young Claudia. Why? Her husband, the respectable Louis Harrison, is young Claudia’s father also! When he dies, Claudia’s mother is fired and the two are virtually run out of town, oblivious to the fact that Louis has made provision in his will to take care of his “love child”. When Claudia returns to Philadelphia years later after learning that she’s been cheated out of her share of wealth, she’s full of venom with an ax to grind! She’s vowed to get revenge for every privilege that she’s been denied and she’ll stop at nothing to get it!
Join us for our Delta Literally Speaking Book Club meeting at the IMA’s (Indianapolis Museum of Art) Nourish Cafe in the Fountation Room from 12Noon-1:30pm for dialogue and fellowship with sorors!
This event has been canceled.
IAC is sponsoring an Interview Skills Workshop; open to minority young ladies attending any area high school. It will be held on Saturday, February 27th at Robinson Community A.M.E. Church, 4602 N. College Avenue, from 9:00 a.m. to Noon. The workshop is designed to prepare students for scholarship, internship and employment opportunities. The workshop is free, but you must pre-register in order to attend. To pre-register or for more information contact Terri Cope at scholarship@dstiac.com or (317) 439-6495.
You can secure your tickets in person for our Delta Red Carpet Event fea. Disney’s The Princess & The Frog on THIS Saturday, 12/5 at the Walker Theatre (Downtown Indy) from 12pm-2pm! Space is still available! First Come, First Served! This event is open to everyone! We have a Princess Package AND a Prince Package for girls and boys! Contact us for event details and assistance! Tell everyone you know! Don’t miss the Disney Magic and the Delta Love on the Red Carpet!
IAC partnered with the Indianapolis Urban League for this years’ World AIDS Day 2009. The program was held Tuesday, December 1, 2009 from 6pm-9pm at the Urban League 777 Indiana Ave., Indianapolis, Indiana. Sorors volunteered at the registration table and assisted with the candlelight vigil.
About the Day
World AIDS Day is observed every year on December 1st. The World Health Organization established World AIDS Day in 1988. World AIDS Day provides governments, national AIDS programs, faith organizations, community organizations, and individuals with an opportunity to raise awareness and focus attention on the global AIDS epidemic.
The FactsOver a million Americans are estimated to be living with HIV. Worldwide an estimated 33 million people are living with HIV.
~From the United States Department of Health & Human Services
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., Indianapolis Alumnae Chapter held “Delta Speaks to Teens” as part of their mental health awareness month activities on November 21, 2009 at Crispus Attucks Medical Magnet School, located at 1140 Dr. Martin Luther King.. The keynote speaker was Kemba Smith the young woman whose case garnered national attention and was granted clemency after serving 6.5 years of a 24.5 years sentence in federal prison by former President Bill Clinton in December 2000.
During that time the Sorority lobbied for Smith’s release and for changes in laws requiring mandatory minimum sentencing for first time non-violent drug offenders. Delta Sigma Theta made significant contributions to the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund which assisted with defending Kemba Smith after her family’s financial resources were exhausted. In 2005 Delta Sigma Theta gifted 1 million dollars to the Legal Defense Fund.
Smith shared her story and addressed concerns of dozens of Indianapolis youth. Her story begins when after graduating from high school in 1989 and entering college she got involved with a drug dealer who was a major figure in a crack cocaine ring, drawing her in the middle of his life with physical, mental and emotional abuse. Today, Smith is a wife, mother, advocate, soon to be author and subject of a movie, produced by Rainforest Films (Stomp the Yard, Obsessed, This Christmas) about her life. Her story has been featured on CNN, Nightline, CourtTV, The Early Morning Show and numerous national print publications. For more information on Kemba Smith, visit www.kembasmithfoundation.org.
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