Mark your calendars and save the date of April 17, 2010 for this years Race for Cure!

This year Team DST has a goal to raise $850.00 dollars and to have 85 participants (at a minimum) in this years race. Invite your friends, family, and co-workers to join us in this exciting event! This year Komen is going ‘green’ and all who register online will have their race items shipped to them at no additional cost.

Don’t delay register today!

One in eight women will be stricken with breast cancer in her lifetime and the more we raise, the more the Indianapolis Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure can give back to fund vital breast cancer education, screening and treatment programs in our own community and support the national search for a cure. The greatest risk factors for breast cancer are being female and growing older. Breast cancer knows no boundary, be it age, gender, socio-economic status or geographic location. One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. That’s one in eight within your company, school and organization! The key to survival is early detection. Three simple steps for early detection are regular mammograms, clinical exam and breast self-exam. And, remember cancer affects more than just the patient; friends and family need support too.

Breast Cancer Fact
Breast cancer death rates among African American women increased 1.6% annually from 1975 – 1991 and declined thereafter. However, the decrease was larger in women under age 50 (1.9% per year) than in women aged 50 and older (1.1%). The steady decline in female breast cancer mortality since 1991 has been attributed to improvements in both early detection and treatment. However, there has been a notable divergence between long-term breast cancer mortality rates for white and African American women. (American Cancer Society (ACS) Cancer Facts in African Americans)

Friday, March 5, 2010, 7:00 pm
Crooked Creek Comm. Center 2290 W. 71st Street, Indianapolis

Admission: A canned good donation for the Glick Food Bank or $5.00

Show love for your Chapter of initiation! Reminisce & Reconnect with Sorors from your Alma Mater or Alumnae Chapter of initiation! Represent and wear your Chapter T-shirt, learn about and enjoy other Delta Chapters! Hang out and have fun with Delta Strolls and Slides!

Register a minimum of five Sorors from your home Chapter to compete in the competition! Round up your Line Sisters, Sands, and Specs! For contest details and to register contact Carolyn Sanders at vpresident2@dstiac.com.

In celebration of Black History Month, our February Delta Bookmark Selection is the “Pick Up Again Classic”, NATIVE SON by Richard Wright.

Richard Wright’s 1940 novel, NATIVE SON, was the first book by an African American writer to enjoy widespread success. In fact, Wright’s novel generated much popular and critical interest before it was even published. Three hours after the book hit the shelves, the first print run sold out! Soon a school of black American writers-the “Wright School”-began modeling itself after the author in the belief that candid art about the black American would lead to positive political change. Wright suddenly became the most recognized black author in America. Today, the novel is essential to an understanding of twentieth-century American literature.

NATIVE SON introduces a figure familiar to mid-twentieth century America, the lone man backed into a corner of discrimination and misunderstanding. Frustrated by racism and the limited opportunities afforded black men in society, Bigger strikes out in a futile attempt to transgress the boundaries and limits of his position. He murders Mary Dalton, the only child of a wealthy real estate magnate, by accident. Yet the act of murder gives his life meaning and the consequent trial and execution are incidental. Bigger Thomas remains a seminal figure in American literature.

This selection is available online and at major local bookstores. Also, check for availability at your local library branch!

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.

All parts of the application must be completed. It states on the application that omission of any part will eliminate the application from consideration check point # 3. Also check the Note that states Part IX is to be completed only by applicants who are financial members of the organization and are applying for the special scholarships which are awarded on the basis of meritorious achievement.

The financial aid application is for undergraduate/collegiate, graduate or technical work. Freshmen may apply for financial aid if they have completed at least one semester of college work. Sophomores and juniors may apply for undergraduate/collegiate scholarship awards. Seniors graduating from college may apply for graduate awards for advance degrees. The financial aid awards will be paid upon confirmation of registration in school for summer or regular terms of the fiscal year for which the aid is granted. The awards are for tuition and school expenses for one (1) year. Candidates may apply and receive financial assistance for two (2) years.

Download a copy of the application and a letter to the university and college registrar requesting a transcript for the Delta Scholarship below. Please take the time to read the application information and send it to the chapter Program Planning & Development members and copy Soror Rachelle Hardiman Bible, Indiana State Coordinator and Whitney Murphy, Indiana State Facilitator.

Application Forms:

Click here to download the 2010 Delta Sigma Theta Financial Aid Package.

Click here to download the instructions.

Download the order form

Please click here to download the order form.

Click here to read Soror Pratt’s congratulations from Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.’s National President Cynthia M.A. Butler-McIntyre.

General Instructions

FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THESE INSTRUCTIONS WILL DISQUALIFY THE APPLICATION FROM CONSIDERATION:

Application packet MUST be post-marked no later than FEBRUARY 13, 2010. Completed application packet MUST include:

- Completed application form with signed Certification
- Most recent high school transcript
- Two (2) letters of recommendation along with signed Student Recommendation Forms

All sections of this application MUST be completed. Omission of any section will disqualify the application for consideration. You may duplicate this form.

TYPE or PRINT all information. Mail completed application packet to:
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

ATTN: Scholarship Committee
C/o Pat Crittendon
PO Box 1364
Indianapolis, IN 46206-1364

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• Together Supporting Works that Uplift Our World
• Together Challenging Today’s Standards

Our January Delta Book Mark Selection is…

Woman Act Now: Learn, Launch, Live Your Dream
By Anna McCoy

Anna McCoy is a powerful, witty, stimulating and thought-provoking speaker. Anna McCoy is a professional, author, ordained minister and entrepreneur with over 20 years experience in sales,
marketing and operations management. She is the Chief Encouragement Officer of Act Now, Inc., a personal development and success training organization and founder of Woman Act Now an online and chapter based membership organization dedicated to empowering women to dream, believe, execute and connect with other like-minded women to achieve their goals in the now. In her new book, “Woman Act Now: Learn, Launch, Live Your Dream,” Anna McCoy encourages women
to Dream big! Believe you can do it! Execute your ideas and succeed! Manage your confidence.

Identify your inner strengths. Develop personal branding. Get specifi c about your vision. Increase your effectiveness in achieving your goals. Learn how to be a woman of execution, accountability, and purpose. Overcome criticism, procrastination, and self-doubt as you launch your ideas and live your dreams in the now! Your future success depends on the things you are doing today. Act now! Let your ideas live. They’re in you; let them breathe life, and watch as God begins to use you and your talents to bless others in this world.

Available online and local major bookstores.

About The Delta Bookmark

The Delta Bookmark is a national book club and recommended reading list.  The Delta Bookmark, promotes a lifelong love of reading. Through The Delta Bookmark, Delta Sigma Theta’s National Commission on Arts & Letters provides quarterly recommended reading selections in five categories. These categories include:

▲ Delta Bookmark Featured Selection – “Must Read”
▲ Delta Spotlight Author
▲ Delta Pick-Up Again Classics
▲ Delta Young Adult’s Choice
▲ Delta Self-Help & Inspirational Selection

SOURCE: www.deltasigmatheta.org & Soror Deidre D. Gray-Chair, IAC Arts & Letters Committee

Hundreds of little girls and boys lined the halls of the theatre to take photos with Princess Delta played by Soror Juanita Ingram, Esq. the current Mrs. U.S. Beauties and a live Princess Tiana played by Soror Karissa Rates. Members of IAC’s Dr. Betty Shabazz Delta Academy accompanied the two Princesses as they walked down the Red Carpet. Attendees young and old thoroughly enjoyed the fan-fair and the film. The Red Carpet event also garnered media attention from Channel 6 News, “Afternoons with Amos” on WTLC AM 1310, and The Indianapolis Star.

The event was part of a National Initiative under the auspices of the Sorority’s National Arts & Letters Commission. Local chapters throughout the sororities’ 900+ chapters have been charged to organize an event supporting the historical release of “The Princess and the Frog”. The Red Carpet event in Indianapolis was organized by the Chapter’s Arts & Letters Committee who collected ticket stubs, along with other chapters holding similar events, and will submit them to Disney as tangible evidence that Delta Sigma Theta supports films that have positive African American representation. Delta on the Red Carpet events for “The Princess and the Frog” were hosted by various chapters of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority throughout Indiana in Bloomington, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Merrillville, Muncie, and South Bend.

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority’s National Commission on Arts and Letters was established in 1973. The ultimate goal of the Commission is to boldly advance the Black Experience through arts and letters and to promote the contributions of African-Americans in the arts—past and present. Moreover, the Commission is charged with preserving, supporting, communicating and projecting all art forms that express the Black Experience through artistic expression, as it relates to promoting the creative works of African-American artists, particularly those of women.

Take a look at photos below (flash is required, click here to download the latest version of flash). Stay tuned for more events from IAC’s Arts & Letters Committee.