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Kappa Delta was nationally founded on October 23, 1897 at State Female Normal School (now Longwood University) in Farmville, Virginia.

Open Motto:  Ta Kala Diokomen; "Let us strive for that which is honorable, beautiful, and highest"

Purpose:  The Purpose of Kappa Delta Sorority is to promote true friendship throughout the college girls of our country by inculcating into their hearts and lives those principles of truth, of honor, of duty, without which there can be no true friendship.

Object:  The Object of Kappa Delta Sorority is the formation and perpetuation of good fellowship, friendship, and sisterly love among it's members; The encouragement of literature and education; the promotion of social interest; and the furtherance of charitable and benevolent purposes.

Creed:  May we, Sisters in Kappa Delta, strive each day to seek more earnestly the honorable and beautiful things.  May we each day through love of those within our circle learn to know and understand better those without our circle.  May the diamond shield that guards our love find us each day Truer, Wiser, More Faithful, More Loving, and More Noble.