Delta Gamma

      Delta Gamma was founded by Anna Boyd Ellington, Eva Webb Dodd and Mary Comfort Leonard in 1873 in Oxford, Mississippi, at the Lewis School for Girls near the University of Mississippi. The founders sought to maintain high ideals and standards and to encourage intellectual growth and service in order to exemplify college women at their best. Delta Gamma offers to women of all ages a rich heritage based on principles of personal integrity, personal responsibility and intellectual honesty. Its primary purpose is to foster high ideals of friendship, promote educational and cultural interests, create a true sense of social responsibility, and develop the finest qualities of character! “Do Good” is the Delta Gamma motto, and our philanthropic focus is the Delta Gamma Foundation Service for Sight. Our colors are bronze, pink and blue, and our symbol is the anchor, as we are anchored in hope, and in each other. Delta Gamma’s membership has grown to more than 142,000 women worldwide with 147 collegiate chapters and more than 250 alumnae groups across the United States, Canada and Britain.