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Kappa Delta Epsilon Society

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Type
  
Professional

Motto
  
Logos

Publication
  
The Current

Scope
  
National

Colors
  
Purple and      White

Founded
  
March 25, 1933; 83 years ago (1933-03-25) Washington, DC

Kappa Delta Epsilon (ΚΔΕ) is a professional fraternity for students in Education. It was organized on March 25, 1933.

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History

On March 25, 1933, at the invitation of the Executive Council of Kappa Phi Kappa, professional educational fraternity, representatives from six institutions met in Washington, DC and formed a national honorary professional education organization for women. The movement was sponsored by the following National Officers of Kappa Phi Kappa: Dean Will Grant Chambers of Pennsylvania State College, Professor Fredrick Henke of Allegheny College, and Dr. Arthur Wright; all National Officers of Kappa Phi Kappa fraternity.

The founding delegates were:

  • Mrs. Mina French Mosher, Allegheny College
  • Dr. Eoline Wallace Moore, Birmingham–Southern College
  • Mrs. Olive Miller Ellis, Cornell University
  • Miss Dorothy Orr, and Mrs. Claudius Layton Taylor, Emory University
  • Miss Mary D. Webb, Illinois State University
  • Mrs. Sylvia Levitt Ostrow, and Mrs. W. W. Cottman, Temple University

    • The Organization, then called sorority, was incorporated under the laws of Georgia in August 1935.

    Magazine

  • 1935 - The first issue of the magazine of the sorority, THE CIRCLE OF KAPPA DELTA EPSILON, was edited by the National Secretary Miss Mary D. Webb.
  • 1936 - A policy of having THE CIRCLE published by the various chapters on a rotating basis was begun. Cornell Chapter initiated the policy.
  • 1947 - At the National Convention at Gettysburg, THE CIRCLE was replaced by THE KAPPA DELTA EPSILON CURRENT

    • Chapters

    Chapters include the following.

    References

    Kappa Delta Epsilon Society Wikipedia
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