Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
Eta Chi Zeta Chapter
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. was founded January 16, 1920, on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C. by five coeds, Arizona Cleaver Stemmons, Myrtle Tyler Faithful, Viola Tyler Goings, Fannie Pettie Watts and Pearl A. Neal. These women dared to depart from the traditional coalitions for Black women and sought to establish a new organization founded on the ideas of Scholarship, Service, Sisterhood and Finer Womanhood.
Since its inception, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. has chronicled a number of firsts:
First Greek-letter organization to have an executive office
First to charter a chapter in Africa (1948)
First to form adult and youth auxiliary groups
First to be constitutionally bound to a brother organization, Phi Beta
Sigma Fraternity, Inc.
Zeta's national, regional and local programs include endowment of its National Educational Foundation, the Stork’s Nest Program (a partnership with the March of Dimes) , Elder Care Initiative, Z-HOPE (Zeta Helping Other People Excel) and support of multiple affiliate organizations.
Zeta chapters and auxiliary groups have given countless hours of voluntary service to educate the public, assist youth, provide scholarships, support organized charities and promote legislation for social and civic change. As the Sorority has reached its centennial, it retains its original zest for excellence. It espouses the highest academic ideals and that has resulted in its members serving in groundbreaking roles in all fields of endeavor. Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. is poised for perpetual service to mankind into her second century and beyond...