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Delilah W. Pierce & Her Phi Delta Members Were Considered Models With Brains

In 1962 Phi Delta Kappa’s Founders’ Day theme was: A New Look at Old Frontiers. Lula Jones Garrett, a popular African American columnist and female rights activist wrote:

Founder’s Day under a program theme of “A New Look at Old Frontiers,” Saturday, had also taken a good gander at new fashions.The schoolmarms, coming from Washington and Annapolis, and joining chapter members here, looked much like a gathering of models.

Delilah W. Pierce & Phi Delta Kappas Considered Models

Delilah W. Pierce & Phi Delta Kappas Considered Models


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