sigma gamma rho sorority, incorporated

 Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. was organized on November 12, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana, by seven young educators: Mary Lou Allison Gardner Little, Dorothy Hanley Whiteside, Vivian Irene White Marbury, Nannie Mae Gahn Johnson, Hattie Mae Annette Dulin Redford, Bessie Mae Downey Rhoades Martin, and Cubena McClure. The group became an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30, 1929, when a charter was granted to the Alpha chapter at Butler University. Since its inception, the dynamic women of Sigma Gamma Rho have built and sustained a well-known and well-respected reputation for leading positive change to help uplift the community through sisterhood, leadership, and service. 

 In the late 1980s members of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated, who were residents of Akron and surrounding areas, recognized a need to establish a graduate chapter to continue the service that they began as undergraduates in their respective chapters. Meetings were held and on September 19, 1989 Sorors Angela Gonzalez, Joyce Johnson, Yolanda Lewis, Donna Smoot-Walters and Gail Thomas were formally recognized as chartering and founding members of the Eta Delta Sigma Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated. 

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