

All Rights Reserved. If you enjoyed this post, please sign up for updates. She was named one of Detroit’s “Women of Achievement.” In 1991, Sigma Delta Tau honored her with the establishment of the Regene Freund Cohane Outstanding President Award. Regene was active in Detroit’s Jewish community and served as President of the National Council of Jewish Women in 1933. In 1924, in the first year of their marriage, the Cohanes were the first married couple to try a case before the United States Supreme Court. In 1924, she married another lawyer, Louis Starfield Cohane and they practiced formed their own law firm. She then spent the next 35 years as the sorority’s National Counselor. She served as National President until 1922. As a female lawyer, she had a difficult time landing a job because of her gender. Two years later, she graduated and moved to Detroit. Regene Freund, a founder, was the organization’s first National President. Sigma Delta Tau Founders and Ritualist, Regene Freund is on the bottom row, second from left. From that time until his death, Brother Nat attended almost every Biennial Convention and maintained correspondence and visits with many alumnae and collegiate chapters.” As the story is told on the Sigma Delta Tau web-site, “After leaving Cornell University, Brother Nat was ‘lost.’ In a chance look through the New York City phone book, Nat was ‘found’ and brought as a surprise to the 1958 National Convention. “Brother Nat” is the only man to honored with the organization’s gold membership pin. Bloom asked Nathan Caleb House to write the ritual.

There was also a male involved in the beginnings of Sigma Delta Tau.

Sigma Delta Tau’s founders are Dora Bloom (Turteltaub), Inez Dane Ross, Amy Apfel (Tishman), Regene Freund (Cohane), Marian Gerber (Greenberg), Lenore Blanche Rubinow, and Grace Srenco (Grossman). Their organization was originally called Sigma Delta Phi, but when they discovered the name belonged to another Greek-letter organization they changed the “Phi” to “Tau.” One hundred years ago, on March 25, 1917, seven female Cornell University students founded Sigma Delta Tau. (Rush and Standard) to ensure on time arrival.Happy 100th Sigma Delta Tau. If you absolutely have to have the RUSH item, you may want to place separate order We ship most orders complete, so if you rush one item and choose an item that cannot be rushed, your order may be held up until all the items are ready to ship. NORMAL/STANDARD PRODUCTION TIMEħ-10 working days on the majority of our products. Any order placed after 1 pm CST will count as the next business day. Items will arrive to you within 3 business days once produced.Ī production day is an actual business day and not a holiday or weekend day. If you are in a rush, we suggest you choose the premium ship option at checkout. Remember, production time is not shipping time! We still need to ship the item to you and that takes time. 99 cents, you can get many of our items much faster than if you choose Normal production. What this means is that what typically may take 7 - 10 business days to arrive at our facility, will now be rushed shipped to us to cut your waiting time in half. We are now offering RUSH service on many of our gift items. Many of our items can be RUSH produced in as little as 1 day.
