About Zeta

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University on January 16, 1920 as the result of encouragement given to the five founders by Charles R. Taylor and A. Langston Taylor, members of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity.  These brothers felt the campus would benefit by the development of such an organization as sisters to the fraternity.

The Five Founders and chartered members of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority are Arizona Cleaver Stemmons, Fannie Pettie Watts, Myrtle Tyler Faithful, Pearl Anna Neal and Viola Tyler Goings.  These dynamic ladies based the founding principles of the sorority on the ideals that would exemplify the finest women. The principles that grace this organization are Scholarship, Service, Sisterly Love and Finer Womanhood.

Since its inception, the Sorority has chronicled a number of firsts.  Zeta Phi Beta was the first Greek-letter organization to charter a chapter in Africa (1948); to form adult and youth auxiliary groups,; to centralize its operations in a national headquarters; and to be constitutionally bound to a fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated.

Zeta's national and local programs include endowment of its National Educational Foundation; community outreach services; and support of multiple affiliate organizations.  Zeta chapters and auxiliary groups have given untotaled hours of voluntary service to educate the public, assist youth, provide scholarships, support organized charities and promote legislation for social and civic change.

For more information, please visit the Zeta Phi Beta International Website:

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated
1734 New Hampshire Blvd NW
Washington DC, 20009
202.387.3103
www.zphib1920.org

Anti-Hazing Policy

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc, has a membership intake policy, which forbids all forms of hazing. Each prospective member is advised in writing that membership in Zeta does not require subjecting oneself to hazing. Prospective members are directed to refuse to participate in any hazing activity, and are directed to report all hazing and hazing attempts to the proper authorities. Members receive instructions in the intake process. The International President has the authority to discipline any member who does not follow the written intake procedure or violates the sorority's policy against hazing. This authority includes the power to suspend and the power to set conditions for reinstatement.

Each prospective member is informed that hazing is against the sorority's rules. Prospective members are directed to walk away from any hazing activity, and to report all attempts to haze to the proper authorities.