The Soroptimist pledge was written in 1927 by Candis Nelson.
Candis a charter member of the Seattle, WA club. The pledge was set to music in 1947 by Dorothy Miller Dunlap, a member of Huntington Beach, CA club. The setting was adopted as the official musical arrangement of the pledge at the 1950 convention in Seattle, WA- the city of the Soroptimist Pledge’s birth.
Thanks to Soroptimist Founder Region for this article
Norwegian Soroptimist Pledge
After the candle ceremony, this pledge is recited at Soroptimist meetings
THE NORWEGIAN SOROPTIMIST PLEDGE – adapted from the Soroptimist Pledge as follows:
