Welcome from the Chapter President
“Greetings to all of you that are visiting the website of the Exquisite Misses of the Epsilon Mu chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. we invite you to get to know us and become more acquainted with our sorority. We hope that the information we provide will assist you in becoming more knowledgeable in your journey as you search for a sorority that is best suited for you. Please feel free to contact any of us if you have any questions."
National Information
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority was founded on the simple belief that sorority elitism and socializing should not overshadow the real mission for progressive organizations - to address societal mores, ills, prejudices, poverty, and health concerns of the day.
Founded January 16, 1920, Zeta began as an idea conceived by five coeds at Howard University in Washington D.C.: Arizona Cleaver, Myrtle Tyler, Viola Tyler, Fannie Pettie and Pearl Neal. These five women, also known as our Five Pearls, dared to depart from the traditional coalitions for black women and sought to establish a new organization predicated on the precepts of Scholarship, Service, Sisterly Love and Finer Womanhood. It was the ideal of the Founders that the Sorority would reach college women in all parts of the country who were sorority minded and desired to follow the founding principles of the organization.
Founder Viola Tyler was oft quoted to say "[In the ideal collegiate situation] there is a Zeta in a girl regardless of race, creed, or color, who has high standards and principles, a good scholarly average and an active interest in all things that she undertakes to accomplish.
Mattie Jackson, 1st Zeta on KSU's campus, 1922
Kansas State Membership, Epsilon Mu, Chartered December 3, 1982