Kappa Delta Sorority was founded on October 23, 1897 at the State Female Normal School (now Longwood University) in Farmville, Virginia. Today, there are over 135 active chapters across the United States with more than 200,000 members. The Alpha Pi chapter at the College of William and Mary was founded on October 23, 1928.

FAST FACTS   Colors: Olive Green and Pearl White Jewels: Diamond, Pearl, and Emerald Flower: White Rose Symbols: Nautilus Shell, Dagger, and Katydid Mascot: Teddy Bear
Open Motto: Ta Kala Diokomen   “Let us strive for that which is honorable, beautiful, and highest”

KAPPA DELTA 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.

KAPPA DELTA 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.

KAPPA DELTA 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.

KAPPA DELTA CREED

May We, Sisters in Kappa Delta, strive each day to seek more earnestly the honorable and beautiful things. May We each day through love of those within our circle, Learn to know and understand better those without our circle. May the diamond shield that guards our love find us each day Truer, Wiser, More Faithful, More Loving, and More Noble.