A Closer Look
Dr. Rhonda Hill Saldivar Prof. Yvonne McCree LIT Official Flower: The Pansy
Moderator, Delta Alpha Chapter Founder, Delta Alpha Chapter
Mr. Mingle Moore President, Delta Alpha Chapter
Ms. Johnniea Armstead, Vice President, Delta Alpha Chapter
Ms. Leslie Warnell, Secretary/Parlimentarian, Delta Alpha Chapter
Lambda Iota Tau Honor Society is a coeducational literary society. It was founded at Michigan State University on December 3, 1953,
and was admitted to the Association of College Honor Societies in 1965.
Delta Alpha Chapter of Texas Southern University was chartered July 16, 1971. Negotiations with the national office which led to this achievement were conducted by Dr. J. Marie McCleary, head of the Department of English, and Prof. Yvonne P. McCree, who had been
initiated into Gamma Alpha Chapter. The first moderators (sponsors) of Delta Alpha Chapter were Prof. Yvonne P. McCree and Prof.
Barbara Elliott, who was initiated with the charter group in the fall of 1971. Other members of Delta Alpha are Willie E. Harris, Rae
Chambers, Thelma Gamble, Ron Samples (students); Nell Cline, Martha Walton (faculty). Initiation papers prepared by these charter
members were approved by the University of Southern Mississippi, Dr. Jesse McCartney, Moderator.
PURPOSE: To recognize and promote excellence in the study of literature in all languages.
ELIGIBILITY: Members are majors or minors in literature, no matter in what language that literature may be written, who are in the upper thirty-five percent of their class in cumulative grade average, have attained at least a full B average in at least twelve semester credit hours or eighteen term hours of literature and all prerequisites thereto, are enrolled in at least their fifth college semester or seventh college term, and have presented an initiation paper on a literary topic or of a creative nature. Graduate students must have completed one semester term with an A- average.
