Delta Sigma Chi Collection

Access and use

Location of collection:
Longwood University
Archives and Special Collections
Greenwood Library
Longwood University
401 Redford Street
Farmville, VA 23909
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (434) 395-2432
Fax: (434) 395-2453
Restrictions:

There are no restrictions to access or use for research purposes.

Summary

Extent:
1.8 Linear Feet 2 archival flat boxes and 1 archival photograph binder
Creator:
Delta Sigma Chi Sorority
Language:
English .

Background

Scope and content:

This collection includes minute and financial ledgers from the organization, as well as a group photograph.

Biographical / historical:

Delta Sigma Chi was founded in 1919 as a local social sorority at the State Normal School for Women in Farmville (now Longwood University), when the Alpha Chapter of Alpha Sigma Alpha was dissolved. At the time, sorority leadership made changes to the organization requiring that chapters be installed only at four-year teacher colleges, to help promote growth, but this excluded the then-Normal School. The organization was active until 1933, when Alpha Chapter of Alpha Sigma Alpha was reinstated and absorbed members of Delta Sigma Chi.

Custodial history:

It is unknown when, or by what means, this collection was acquired by Longwood University or the Greenwood Library Archives.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard