Soror Vivian Irene White Marbury

 

Founder 

b. Oxford, OH 

 

Marbury attended Shortridge H.S. and the Indianapolis Normal School. She received a B.S. from Butler University and a Masters degree from Columbia University in New York City. Her professional career included teaching at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Director of Practice Training of teachers from Butler University, Indianapolis University and Indianapolis State University. She taught in the Indianapolis School system for 9 years. Marbury organized Public School #87 which grew from a 4 room portable school to 18 rooms and 24 teachers, where she was principal for 39 years until her retirement in 1967. She married in 1929 and is the mother of two children. Soror Marbury kept the Sigma Light burning until her death on July 30, 2000.