Iota
Phi Lambda Sorority, Inc. is a national business
and professional sorority which seeks to:
- Unite
in sisterhood qualified business and professional
women in order to enhance and improve the status
of women in our highly complex, competitive business
and professional world;
- Promote
increased interest in the broad field of business
education among high school and college young women
through planned programs and scholarships;
- Encourage
the development of personal goals and leadership
potential; and
- Establish
and promote civic and social service activities
for youth and adults.
The
Sorority's most recent and national youth projects
place emphasis on the social, economic and psychological
needs of youth by offering programs of remediation
through tutoring, career exploration and teen pregnancy
prevention.
The
Sorority's aims are to:
- Make
worthwhile contributions to the changing socio-economic
patterns of our time;
- Project
the philosophy of the pursuit of excellence in
all worthy endeavors among youth and adults;
- Develop
leadership expertise among business and professional
women.
Today,
there are more than 100 chapters with an approximate
membership of 5,000 stretching across the width and
breadth of our country in 85 cities, representing
31 states, the District of Columbia, and the Virgin
Islands.
Gamma
Delta was chartered November 27, 1954
Charter
members:
 Marie
J. Anderson* |
Mabel
K. Harris* |
| Florence
Bailey* |
Catherine
H. Mitchell* |
| Hope
Blackwell* Feb. 2008 |
Ada
J. Pannel* |
Gwendolyn
Shelton*
|
*Deceased |
