A Closer Look

                                                                        

              Dr. Rhonda Saldivar                                    Prof. Yvonne McCree                                  LIT Official Flower: The Pansy
      Moderator, Delta Alpha Chapter                    Founder, Delta Alpha Chapter

 

          Ms. Neshon P. Jackson,  President, Delta Alpha Chapter          Ms. Natalie Baker,  Vice President, 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.