UPSILON CHAPTER
of the National Sorority of
Phi Delta Kappa, Inc.

The Upsilon Chapter was chartered in December 1936 in Tuskegee, Alabama, by Cleo Nelms, Southern Regional Director and member of the Nu Chapter.

National Officers who were in attendance for the chartering ceremony were as follows:

Olivia Henry                                                                                                          Supreme Basileus

Daisy Simms                                                                               1st Anti Basileus (Eastern Region)

Laura B. McCray                                                                     2nd Anti Basileus (Southern Region)

Anna L. Davison                                                                         3rd Anti Basileus (Central Region)

Charter Members were:

Letitia Carter                                                                                                              Mayme Welch

Beula Johnson                                                                                                                  Nellie Reid

Letitia Woods                                                                                                           Katie S. Darnby

Laura Bucks                                                                                                                    Clara Hicks

Mary K. Frazier                                                                                                       Cleopatra Morse

Juanita E. Jones                                                                                                   Emma Lou Roberts

Bernice Hodge Williams                                                                                     Dorothy Whittaker    

Early History – The chapter established a traveling library of works about and by Negroes, maintained the Recreation Room in the infantile Paralysis Center at John A. Andrew Hospital.  (The 1944 Conclave passed a resolution to collect dimes from each member to create a fund to be administered by the Upsilon Chapter for the Paralysis Unit.)

Soror Rowena Bracken served as Member-At-Large for the Southern Region.   Soror Dorothy McDonald currently serves as the Parlimentarian for the Southeast Region.