Kappa Delta Facts


Banding together with Greek letters as their symbols , four young women kindled a Revolution of Friendship which would grow to enlist thousands of women from across the country. They didn't call it a revolution, and they didn't envision the magnitude of their rainy afternoon meeting. Nevertheless, one girl's suggestion to form a common friendship bond gained the excited approval of others and a movement was begun.

  The movement was the birth of Virginia's first sorority, known today as Kappa Delta.

Kappa Delta Sorority was Founded on October 23, 1897 at State Female Normal School (now Longwood College) in Richmond, Virginia.

Mascots and Emblems
The White Rose    
The Nautilus    
The Teddy Bear

Our Open Motto
Let us strive for that which is Honorable, Beautiful and Highest

Our Purpose
The purpose of Kappa Delta Sorority is to promote true friendship among the college girls of our country by inculcating into their hearts and lives those principles of truth, of honor, of duty, without which there can be no true friendship.

Our Object
The object of Kappa Delta Sorority is the formation and perpetuation of good fellowship, friendship and sisterly love among its members; the encouragement of literature and education; the promotion of social interest; and the furtherance of charitable and benevolent purposes.

Our Mission Statement
Kappa Delta is a national organization of women committed to a two-fold purpose: to provide a secure, stabilizing environment for personal growth to its collegiate members, and to provide a lifelong association of friendship and enrichment to its alumnae members.

Kappa Delta provides experience in group living and offers the opportunity to learn leadership and interpersonal skills that equip members to assume positions of responsibility in the world of career, community and society.

Kappa Delta encourages academic achievement, respect for learning and development of organizational skills that prepare college women for attaining their goals in life.

Kappa Delta teaches the value of altruism, belief in human dignity and concern for fellow human beings - timeless principles adopted by the sorority's founders in 1897.

Kappa Delta looks to the past for its convictions, the present for its opportunities and the future for its dreams.