DODD, FREDERICA CHASE (1893–1972). Frederica Chase Dodd, renowned Dallas teacher and social worker, was born on November 3, 1893, to Frederic and Fannie Chase in Dallas, Texas. Frederic Chase was a successful attorney in Dallas, and Fannie was a teacher. Frederica graduated from Dallas Colored School No. 2 (later called Booker T. Washington High School) in 1910 and began her collegiate studies at Howard University in Washington, D.C. While at Howard, she helped establish Delta Sigma Theta in 1913, along with twenty-one other women, and served as the sorority’s first sergeant-at-arms. She graduated from Howard University in 1914 and returned to Dallas to teach English at the future Booker T. Washington High School.