Lights, Camera, Action. “The Comeback” Jazz Soiree hosted by The Houston Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

Lights! Camera! Action! The Comeback!

Houston Alumnae Deltas return to celebrating service and scholarship in grand style.

HOUSTON — For the first time since 2019, the Houston Alumnae Chapter (HAC) of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., in partnership with Delta Research Educational Foundation, will host the Jazz Soiree as an in-person event on Sunday, December 11, 2022. Renowned as one of the most elegant affairs on Houston’s holiday season social calendar, the gala will be held in the ballroom at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, located at 1777 Walker Street in downtown Houston, beginning at 3 p.m.

The highlight of the event will be a ceremony honoring the first recipients of HAC’s distinguished Thelma Patten Law Pillar of Fortitude Awards for outstanding and impactful community service. The awards commemorate the late Dr. Thelma Patten Law, who was a charter member of the Houston Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and was one of the first Black women to practice medicine in Houston. The honorees include Bayway Lincoln, d-mars.com, H-E-B, Houston Food Bank, Houston Public Library, R.A.R.E. Pearls, Inc., and Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church.

The Jazz Soiree will also feature fine dining, live music, dancing, a silent auction, a vendors gallery, and a raffle prize drawing. Proceeds from the event will support need-based academic scholarships for exceptional students.

Over the past 25 years, HAC has awarded scholarships totaling more than $1 million to graduating high school seniors as well as students enrolled in accredited colleges, universities, and trade schools. For health and safety during the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, HAC pivoted and transformed its prestigious fundraiser into two successful virtual campaigns. In May 2022, the generous individual donations and sponsorships garnered from those events enabled HAC to award more than $100,000 in scholarships and laptop gift cards to 47 deserving youths.

For more information about the Jazz Soiree, including tickets, sponsorships, and vendor opportunities, please visit the website https://dsthoustonalumnae.org/2022-jazz-soiree/.

About us

The Houston Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated was chartered in 1927 as the first Houston-area chapter of the not-for-profit, public service sisterhood. With a financial membership of more than 500 college-educated women, HAC continues its 95-year legacy of community service, educational scholarships, and social advocacy in Houston.
Website: http://dsthoustonalumnae.org/

Founded on January 13, 1913, by 22 collegiate women at Howard University, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated is a private, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to aid and support through established programs in local communities throughout the world. The organization is a sisterhood of predominantly Black, college-educated women. Since its founding, more than 300,000 women have joined the organization. The Sorority has over 900 collegiate and alumnae chapters located in the United States, the Arabian Gulf, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, Germany, Jamaica, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and the Virgin Islands.
Website: https://www.deltasigmatheta.org/

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated established The Delta Research and Educational Foundation as a public charity supporting scholastic achievement, public service programs, and research initiatives focused upon African American women. DREF remains strong, vibrant, and poised to meet 21st Century challenges with the same unwavering spirit and dedication the Sorority originally envisioned. Its charge is to realize social and economic equality for future generations of African American women continues as our guiding principle.
Website: https://www.deltafoundation.net/about-us