She celebrated her 100th birthday in 2000.ĭorothy N. Vivian Irene White Marbury lived the longest life of any of the Founders. Nannie Mae Gahn designed the Sorority’s official pin. On the 12th, they will celebrate with a National Centennial Day of Service to honor female veterans.Īmong the fun facts I learned from reading the book: I would loved to have been at the marker dedication and if I get to Indy again I will visit it.Īs I am writing this on Friday, November 11, 2022, the Sigma Gamma Rhos are on the Butler campus holding a Where It All Began Centennial Ceremony from 6:30 p.m. Inside was a signed copy of Walking in the Founders’ Footsteps: Sigma Gamma Rho and a program for the Historical Marker Dedication Program which took place on July 11, 2022. Last week, a package arrived from a friend in Indianapolis. Sigma Gamma Rho’s founders are Nannie Mae Gahn Foster Johnson, Mary Lou Allison Gardner Little, Vivian Irene White Marbury, Bessie Mae Downey Rhoades Martin, Cubena McClure, Hattie Mae Annette Dulin Redford, and Dorothy N. It is the only one of the National Pan-Hellenic Conference sororities not founded at Howard University, site of the Alpha chapters of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma Theta, and Zeta Phi Beta. On December 30, 1929, a charter was granted to the Alpha chapter at Butler University making the organization a national college sorority. was founded on November 12, 1922 by seven young brave African American women educators in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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