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Carol J. Nemitz, Zeta Tau Alpha, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2024

Carol J. Nemitz, Dean Nemitz,as she was known to legions of Iowa Wesleyan University students, was born in Pulaski, Iowa, on February 25, 1934. After graduating from high school in 1951, she enrolled at Iowa Wesleyan. There, she became a … Continue reading

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Vivian Charno Wren, Zeta Tau Alpha, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2023

Vivian Charno (Wren) was born on June 11, 1921, in Kansas City, Missouri. After graduating from Central High School in 1937, she entered Baker University in Baker, Kansas. At Baker, she joined Zeta Tau Alpha. She entered Mercy Hospital’s School … Continue reading

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Happy Founders’ Day Alpha Chi Omega AND Zeta Tau Alpha

October 15 is the founding day of both Alpha Chi Omega and Zeta Tau Alpha. Alpha Chi Omega was founded at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, in 1885, Thirteen years later, in 1898, Zeta Tau Alpha was founded at the … Continue reading

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Grace Fern Heck Faust, Zeta Tau Alpha, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2022

Grace Fern Heck Faust was born in 1905. In the fall of 1924, she enrolled in Ohio State University where she became a member of Zeta Tau Alpha. She earned a bachelor’s degree in 1928, one of two women who … Continue reading

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Alpha Chi Omega and Zeta Tau Alpha Share a Founders’ Day

Alpha Chi Omega and Zeta Tau Alpha celebrate Founders’ Day on October 15. How amazing is it that the first organization and the last organization on the alphabetical listing of National Panhellenic Conference members share the same Founders’ Day? On Thursday, … Continue reading

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Catherine Stewart Howarth Carter-Lewia, Zeta Tau Alpha, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2021

Catherine Stewart Howarth (Carter-Lewia) was born on September 30, 1913 in Chester, Pennsylvania. Catherine Carter was her professional name. Her mother, Mary Stewart Howarth-Hewitt, a Chi Omega, was the first woman to attend and graduate from John B. Stetson University’s … Continue reading

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What Happened to Sororities at Wesleyan College?

Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, is the founding home of Alpha Delta Pi and Phi Mu. About 100 years ago the sororities were forced to close.

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RIP Phyllis George, Zeta Tau Alpha

Phyllis George “brought great honor to both local and national Zeta chapters when she was first crowned Miss Dallas, then Miss Texas and finally Miss America,” according to the Zeta Tau Alpha page in the 1971 Yucca, the yearbook of … Continue reading

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Brig. Gen. Margaret A. Brewer, Zeta Tau Alpha, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2020

Margaret Brewer attended the University of Michigan where she became a member of Zeta Tau Alpha. In 1952, she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in geography. Military service wasn’t a usual path for women in 1952. However, she broke tradition … Continue reading

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Beulah Armstrong, Ph.D., Zeta Tau Alpha, #NotableSororityWomen #WHM2019

In 1913, Beulah Armstrong entered Baker University in Kansas. There she joined the Sigma chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha in a pledge class of eight women. According to a report inThemis of Zeta Tau Alpha: While in school, Beulah took … Continue reading

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