THEE MOST MAGNIFICENT
LAMBDA CHAPTER
DELTA SIGMA THETA SORORITY, INC.
A Most Magnificent Beginning
The Lambda Chapter was chartered in 1921 at The University of Chicago by seven outstanding women, including two of our beloved Founders:
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Osceola Macarthy Adams, First President of Lambda Chapter
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Marguerite Young Alexander
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Freddie Billings (Beta Chapter)
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Marie Ody Cobb (Beta Chapter)
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Margaret Watkins Hardiman (Beta Chapter)
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Vivian Mason (Alpha Chapter)
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Ruby Martin Payne (Beta Chapter)
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Among the first initiates were Sorors:
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Estelle Webster MacNeal
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Tillie Houston White
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Sophia Boaz
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Today, Lambda is known as the undergraduate Chicago-Citywide Chapter; home to not only The University of Chicago, but also University of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago State University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Loyola University, Roosevelt University, and Northeastern Illinois University.