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Sigma Delta Tau company history timeline

1917

Sigma Delta Tau was founded on March 25, 1917, at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, by seven Jewish women who felt discriminated against by existing Greek organizations.

1920

The Beta chapter of Sigma Delta Tau was founded at Penn on June 20, 1920.

1924

In 1924, they earned the distinction of being the first married couple to try a case before the United States Supreme Court.

1958

After leaving Cornell, Brother Nat was “lost.” In a chance look through the New York City phone book, Nat was “found” and brought as a surprise to the 1958 National Convention.

1963

The Sigma Delta Tau Foundation was founded in 1963 as a separate not-for-profit corporation.

1970

Dora married John Turteltaub and at the time of her death, in March 1970, lived in West Orange, New Jersey.

1982

Upon her death, in 1982, the Tishman family bequeathed to the Sigma Delta Tau Foundation a scholarship in Amy’s name to be awarded to deserving members of the Alpha Chapter of Sigma Delta Tau.

1991

Sigma Delta Tau honored Regene in 1991 by establishing the Regene Freund Cohane Outstanding President Award.

1999

Along with Jewish women in other sororities at Purdue and members of the Hillel Foundation, the three brought the idea to colonize a new sorority to the Purdue Panhellenic Association on April 8, 1999.

2000

Sigma Delta Tau met with the women of Alpha Upsilon on April 26, 2000, and both groups voted unanimously to choose each other for extension.

At that time they made a commitment to recruit diverse women who would be able to develop the bonds of sisterhood and respect that were necessary to form the foundation for a new sorority at Purdue. Thus, they became known as the "Founding Six". By the spring of 2000, these women identified that Jewish women were not the only group of women on campus who were not joining sororities due to their religious, ethnic or cultural associations.

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