The Midwest Region is an eight state geographic area that encompasses Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Since 1926 there have been 26 Regional Directors and 21 Regional Representatives. The first Regional Representative was elected in 1970. Currently there are 134 alumnae and undergraduate chapters in the Midwest with an active membership that exceeds 6000.

 

Beta Chapter, the second chapter of the sorority was founded in the Midwest at Wilberforce University (Ohio) and Chicago’s first Delta chapter, Lambda, was organized under the leadership of founder Osceola McCarthy Adams. Additional Midwest legacies include the pyramid pin, which was designed by Epsilon Chapter at The Ohio State University and the sorority Crest that was designed by Sorors Gladys P. Shepperd (past national president) and Ailene T. Marks.

 

The Midwest Region is an eight state geographic area that encompasses Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Since 1926 there have been 26 Regional Directors and 21 Regional Representatives. The first Regional Representative was elected in 1970. Currently there are 134 alumnae and undergraduate chapters in the Midwest with an active membership that exceeds 6000.

Beta Chapter, the second chapter of the sorority was founded in the Midwest at Wilberforce University (Ohio) and Chicago’s first Delta chapter, Lambda, was organized under the leadership of founder Osceola McCarthy Adams. Additional Midwest legacies include the pyramid pin, which was designed by Epsilon Chapter at The Ohio State University and the sorority Crest that was designed by Sorors Gladys P. Shepperd (past national president) and Ailene T. Marks.

The Midwest Region has been the home to three of the 22 founders Osceola McCarthy Adams, Marguerite Young Alexander and Madree Penn White and nine past national presidents reside or have resided in the Midwest:

• 3rd National President, Ethel LeMay Calimese
• 4th National President, Anna Johnson Julian
• 5th National President, Gladys Byram Shepperd
• 6th National President, Jeannette Triplett Jones
• 8th National President, Elsie Austin
• 11th National President, Dorothy P. Harrison
• 15th National President, Lillian Pierce Benbow
• 18th National President, Hortense Golden Canady
• 21st National President, Marcia L. Fudge, Esq.

During a time when African American students were not welcomed to live in the campus dormitories at the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana (Illinois) Deltas purchased the first sorority house.