The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1939-06-03
Deltas Lay
Stress On Need
OF Education
"Invest In
Education" Is
Plea To Women
By zeIma sykes

For many years May Week has
played an important part In the
history OF Delta Sigma Theta. This
year local Deltas OF Tau Chapter
attempted 10 put into practice
their national slogan. Intelligence
Is The Torch or Wisdom" through
the activities.
Mrs. Edith watson. the chairman
spared no pains In planning
week OF activities which would
reach every young woman OF De-
troit. May. the selected month, has
been regarded as the most beau
iiful month OF spring. 1t Is
month when natures freshness
awakens and unfolds to blossom
forth in all its beauty in the sum
mer. Thus II is with young woman
hood. the period when youths begin
10 prepare themselves for vocations
later in life.
Deltas throughout the United
States cooperate In national ef-
fort to promote higher education
among young women. II is their
aim TO have mothers and daugh-
tiers become more education-con-
scious and more education-ambi-
tious.
On Friday, May 5th group OF
mothers were guests OF Deltas and
T. |. u, girls at an elaborate
tea at The YWCA. Miss Marjorie
Dunbar. the former It'd president
was in charge. and the main feature
OF the program was a skit pre-
scented by T.ID.'s which had been
written by two OF their very capa-
Bile members.
On Saturday morning. May 9Th,
Miss Roberta MCGUIRE chartered
bus which carried sixty children
10 Greenfield Village. She was as
sisted by Sorors Esther Dade.
Marion Taylor. Loretta Jackson.
and Zelma Sykes. The children for
this trip were selected from the
Wineman, Trowbridge. Lin n
schools, and the ST. Cyprians
church. The historic Greenfield
Village was selected because II af-
fords the ideal in educational ad-
vantages. Some OF the things which
interested the children most were:
the colonial home furnishings, old
clocks. pottery, typesfof the first
telephone. old switcblpards used
in the seventeenth andf eighteenth
centuries, all models OF cars, from
the first type TO that Of the pre-
sent day and early trains and sta
tons. They saw the chair in which
Lincoln was shot, and saw some OF
the rails split by Mr.. Lincoln him
SELF They were carried through the
Edison Institute which holds a
treasury OF articles used by Mr.
Edison when he made the first
electric light. 1t was evident that
the children were greatly impress
cd by every phase of the trip.
Sunday. May eth. found Deltas
and r. ] D's attending services al
the Presbyterian church with their
mothers. The stimulating message
vision" was greatly enjoyed by
the forty members present.
Saturday, May 10, Soror Horicnsf
Young. the Midwestern Regional
Director was in Detroit TO set up =
Graduate Chapter OF the Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority here. This
was the climaxing feature OF III,
May Week program. Approximately
ffiy-three members went into thu
, Graduate chapter which shall b,
: known as Alpha ri Sigma OF Dcll;
Sigma Theta sorority. Tau. the Tn
! dergraduate chapter will be re-es
! tablished on the Wayne unIversit,
campus. Along with the settin,
up OF the new chapter went III,
regular initiation ceremony. 81,
former T.I.D.'s reached the honoret
ranks OF the fair sisterhood. The,
were: Marjorie Dunbar, Chariot,
. Watts, Emmetta Morton. Christin,
Tandy. Ruby McClendon, ant
Beryl Anderson.
Another May Week OF educa iona
activities has passed, and Deltas o
Detroit are happy 10 have had
share In helping some young NO
man 10 want TO INVEST IN EDtr