On Friday evening , November 14, 1919, at the University of California, Berkeley, a charismatic and dynamic 18-year-old undergraduate Spanish major, Ruth Helen Barnes, hosted six other students at her residence to start what would eventually become the largest collegiate foreign language honor society in the U.
S.: Sigma Delta Pi.
Earle Hamilton, a past president of Sigma Delta Pi, authored the first account.
In 1995 and to commemorate the Society\'s 75th anniversary, T.
On Friday evening , November 14, 1919, at the University of California, Berkeley, a charismatic and dynamic 18-year-old undergraduate Spanish major, Ruth Helen Barnes, hosted six other students at her residence to start what would eventually become the largest collegiate foreign language honor society in the U.
S.: Sigma Delta Pi