University of Arkansas Fayetteville - Razorback Yearbook (Fayetteville, AR)

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ZETA TAU ALPHA J f W ■ WEk., 1 ■ax - f w - First Row: Cole, Chapin, English, Flavin, Fleming Second Row: Fogleman, May, Nall, Sisk, Watkins, Young Founded at Virginia State Normal, 1896 Epsilon Chapter established at the University of Arkansas, 1903 MEMBERS NOT IN PICTURE Nancy Bollinger Ruth Fleming Mary Magee Betty A. Nettleship B. Winifred Stutz PROMINENT ALUMNAE Marian Johnson Castle ------ Author Dr. May Agnes Hopkins - Child Specialist Dorothy Shaver - - - - V. P. Lord and Taylor Marian Taylor - -- -- -- - Aviatrix Carolyn Storloi - - Decorated by the King of Norway Elizabeth F. Gardner - - - V. P. Tips Eng. Wks. Grace S. Mayer ------ Concert Soloist Virginia P oyle - -- -- -- -- Poet Elinora Thompson - - Pres. American Nurse Assoc. Marian T. McMillan ------- Artist

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ZETA TAU ALPHA COLORS Turquoise and Steel Grey FLOWER White Violet President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer OFFICERS Mike May ------ Mary Lee Watkins - Mamie Olive Fogleman Doris Fleming ----- Zeta Tau Alpha was founded as the Virginia State Alpha, Virginia State Normal School at Farmville, Virginia, October 15, 1898, and was chartered as a legal corporation by the legisla¬ ture of Virginia March 18, 1902. Since the former date the fraternity has expanded until it now has sixty-seven chapters in the United States and Canada. Government of the fraternity is vested in a grand chapter composed of five officers. The legislative government is vested in a convention. The fraternity’s central office is located at Beaumont, Texas. Chapters of Zeta Tau Alpha are grouped in twelve provinces, with a prov¬ ince president appointed over each. There is a scholarship loan fund, not necessarily limited to members of the fraternity. Epsilon chapter was established at the University of Arkansas on December 18, 1903, and was the second national women’s fraternity on the campus. The local which petitioned Zeta Tau Alpha was named Delta Phi. Epsilon was the fourth established chapter of the fraternity. Page 178

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PI BETA PHI COLORS Wine and Silver Blue FLOWER Red Carnation OFFICERS Margaret Seamster - Evelyn Eason ----- Earline Campbell - - - - Agnes Soule ----- President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Pi Beta Phi was founded in 1867 at Monmouth College, Illinois, and was the first organiza¬ tion of college women organized with the aims and policies of a national fraternity. It was originally called I. C. Sororis, but in 1888 the name was changed to Pi Beta Phi Fraternity, and as such it is incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois. The fraternity now has seventy-eight active chapters located in the leading colleges and universities of the United States and Canada. Pi Beta Phi has 144 chartered Alumnae Clubs. The total active membership of the fraternity is approximately 19,000. The fraternity, by voluntary contributions of members and alumnae, maintains a Settlement School at Gatlinburg, Tennessee, established in 1912 as a memorial to the 12 founders of Pi Beta Phi. Situated on over one hundred acres of its own land in eight well-equipped buildings, the school offers work covering eleven grades. It has an enrollment of nearly 150 and a teaching staff of nine members. Arkansas Alpha Chapter of Pi Beta Phi was founded at the University of Arkansas in 1909. A new $40,000 home was completed in February of 1931. The publication is “The Arrow.” Pace 180