At the inception of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. at Howard University in 1913, the Founders envisioned an organization of college women pledged to serious endeavor and community service. These youthful students demonstrated a vital concern for social welfare, academic excellence, amd cultural enrichment, and de-emphasized the social side of sorority life. Their ideas of scholarship and service have withstood the test of time; and today, Delta Sigma Theta is a public service sorority, dedicated to a program of sharing membership skills and organizational services in the public interest. In 1930, Delta Sigma Theta was incorporated as a National organization. The record of incorporation is filed at the Congressional Library in Washington D.C. Today there are over 195,000 members and over 800 chapters in 42 states, Haiti, Liberia,the Virgin Islands, the Caribbean, West Germany and Korea.