Category Archives: Kappa Delta

Jenn Winslow Coltrane, Kappa Delta, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2024

Jenn Winslow Coltrane was initiated into the Randolph-Macon Woman’s College chapter of Kappa Delta on October 27, 1903. The chapter was founded earlier that year on January 28. Although she was born in Marshall, Missouri, and she died in Bellevue … Continue reading

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Kappa Delta’s Presidential Connection on Its Founders’ Day

Kappa Delta was founded on October 23, 1897 at the State Female Normal School (now Longwood University) in Farmville, Virginia. Its founders are Lenora Ashmore Blackiston, Julia Gardiner Tyler Wilson, Sara Turner White and Mary Sommerville Sparks Hendrick. Kappa Delta, … Continue reading

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Elizabeth Finch West, Kappa Delta, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2022

Elizabeth Finch West became a member of the Sigma Delta Chapter of Kappa Delta at Trinity College (now part of Duke University). She was only at the college for a year, but an obituary in the Duke University Alumni Register … Continue reading

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Olga Achtenhagen, Kappa Delta, on Founders’ Day #NotableSororityWomen

Kappa Delta was founded on October 23, 1897 at the State Female Normal School (now Longwood University) in Farmville, Virginia. Its founders are Lenora Ashmore Blackiston, Julia Gardiner Tyler Wilson, Sara Turner White and Mary Sommerville Sparks Hendrick. Among the charter … Continue reading

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Agnes Edwards, Kappa Delta, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2021

Agnes Edwards was born in 1892 in Jefferson County, Florida, two miles from the little town of Floyd. She earned her Bachelor’s degree from Florida State College for Women (now Florida State University). After teaching French and history at Sanford … Continue reading

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Georgia O’Keeffe on Kappa Delta’s Founding Day

Kappa Delta was founded on October 23, 1897 at the State Female Normal School (now Longwood University) in Farmville, Virginia. Its founders are Lenora Ashmore Blackiston, Sara Turner White, Mary Sommerville Sparks Hendrick., and Julia Gardiner Tyler Wilson, the granddaughter of … Continue reading

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Julia Fuqua Ober, Kappa Delta, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2020

Julia Fuqua (Ober) grew up in Norfolk, Virginia. One of her neighbors was Sara Turner White, a founder of Kappa Delta. When Julia Fuqua entered Hollins College, she joined the Gamma chapter of Kappa Delta. She pursued a degree in … Continue reading

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Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, Kappa Delta, #NotableSororityWomen #WHM2019

Although Pearl Sydenstricker (Buck) was born in West Virginia, she spent most of her childhood in China where her parents were Presbyterian missionaries. After graduating from high school in Shanghai, she traveled to Lynchburg, Virginia, where she became a student … Continue reading

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Kappa Delta and Effie Moncure, Lawyer

It’s Kappa Delta’s Founders’ Day and in trying to come up with a new post, I discovered that Anna Lytle Tannahill (Brannon), a Pi Beta Phi Grand President and Chairman of the National Panhellenic Conference, had a hand in the … Continue reading

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26% of NPC Sororities Celebrate Founders’ Day in October

October is a busy month for Founders’ Day celebrations. Seven of the 26 National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) organizations will be a year older before Halloween gets here. While I always try to write a post for the NPC groups on … Continue reading

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