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CURRENT EDITION: Issue 2 2009
COVER STORY
Sorority Life Becomes Community Purpose
“To develop plans for guidance and unity in action; objects worthy of the highest aim and purpose of associated effort.”
The Articles of Incorporation
The Constitution of the Delta Zeta Sorority
Every day in Denver, Colorado, day laborers wait on street corners or in day-labor centers, hoping that even in this troubled economy someone will give them a job for a day or longer. Often, these laborers go for long hours without food as they wait and hope.
Student volunteers, including Delta Zeta’s Rho Chapter, at the University of Denver work to solve the problem at PB&J Night, where, as the initials imply, there is a lot of peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich making. The group makes sack lunches every Tuesday night and distributes them the following morning at El Centro Humanitario day-labor center in downtown Denver.
The majority of the supplies are paid for by the group’s sponsor, Foundation Campus Ministry. Students also supply some of the peanut butter and jelly through a donation box. There is usually an apple or fruit leather added to the lunch. In one session, the group made 77 lunches. They fed all the workers at El Centro for a day.1
Delta Zeta women dedicate themselves to the greater good – to making a difference – to improving and changing the world.
No matter what our generation, the challenges of today can become the opportunities to enrich tomorrow. As members of Delta Zeta, we view societal, economic, intellectual challenges, and even warfare, as
the chance to “develop plans for guidance and unity in action” – to change the world for the better.
In her 107-year history, Delta Zeta has seen change on an unimaginable scale. The members of Delta Zeta have persevered, guided by that “unity in action” that our Founders set forth in 1902. We ascribe to follow our values, which translate to community purpose. That purpose, “objects worthy of the highest aim and purpose,” or, the greater good of a community, works to effect change for the benefit of everyone. We stand together in the resolve that not only does our united effort enhance the Sorority that we love, but that this cohesive force does much to enrich the world in which we live.
“I believe that Delta Zeta will find a work worthy of her united effort, perhaps something different than has ever been done before. I believe we should all be searching out this thing … because we want to play the game of life right and give back to college, fraternity, state, home and country more than we have received. Organized effort, all working together is what helps the world along faster.”
Elizabeth Coulter Stephenson A
Past National President, 1912-1916
Philanthropic Ideals From the Very Beginning
During the 1920s and 1930s, Delta Zeta established a fully-accredited school in a remote area of Appalachian Kentucky. The Sorority also built a community center called Vest and furnished a clinic in the area.
While philanthropy is an important part of what we do, there is much more occurring every day in every place a Delta Zeta lives. She knows that as a citizen of the world community, she has a civic responsibility to do what she can to improve the lives of others and to enrich her community and the Earth we call home. She does this by embodying the Delta Zeta purpose in every phase of her life.
Members care about, and for, the world they live in. They improve the environment and educate those around them about how they can do the same.
Members of the Lambda Psi Chapter (Columbus State University) motivate voters at the 2009 elections.
The Lambda Kappa Chapter (University of Alabama/Huntsville) celebrated Earth Day 2009 with a Pink Goes Green week-long celebration.
From Top to Bottom:
Caney Creek school in Kentucky, Delta Zeta members volunteered for the Red Cross during World War II, and Caney Creek Community Center in Pippapass, Kentucky.