Vivian Osborne Marsh

Vivian Osborne Marsh (September 5, 1898 – March 8, 1986) was an American clubwoman based in San Francisco, California.

[5] Marsh remained active with Delta Sigma Theta throughout her life, establishing the Berkeley Bay Area Alumnae Chapter in 1934,[6] and was the sorority's seventh national president, from 1935 to 1939.

[7][8][9] During her time as president of Delta Sigma Theta, she organized a traveling library for rural Georgia, and Teen Lift, a program to improve access to concerts, operas, and plays for black teenagers.

She was a member of the YWCA and the Berkeley Women's Civic Club, and was director of the Oakland junior branch of the NAACP from 1928 to 1929.

[14][15] During World War II, she christened a Navy cargo ship, the S. S. Ocean Telegraph, in Oakland in 1944.

[7][21] Vivian Osborne married a fellow Texan, World War I veteran Leon F. Marsh, in 1921.