World Turtle Day 2022
May 23, 2022 This World Turtle Day alumna Kendra Cope, Delta Beta-Tampa (FL), will spend the day like any other, except her day may look slightly different from ours. Kendra founded her nonprofit, Coastal Connections, in 2017 with eight volunteers. They have grown to over 80 volunteers, interns and three paid staff members who lead…
Women’s History Month: Generosity
March 31, 2022 Every collegiate chapter owes her existence to the bond that comes from the partnership with the local college or university. Each Delta Zeta chapter has unique local campus traditions that make the experience special to those members. While 119 years have passed and times have changed, Delta Zeta has left her legacy…
Women’s History Month: Community
March 28, 2022 History of service to others has been long a part of the Delta Zeta experience. Though service and philanthropy projects may have changed over the years, the commitment sisters have to help and serve others is of the greatest importance. As early as 1914, we see that the National Convention felt that…
Women’s History Month: Belonging
March 21, 2022 Delta Zeta is a beautiful combination of individual members, many of whom came to the Sorority through the four national mergers we’ve celebrated in our history. Read more below about these significant events from the Summer 1990 LAMP article by Susan Mease Samford, Alpha Pi-Samford (AL). We often speak of Delta Zeta…
Women’s History Month: Empowerment
March 14, 2022 Could you imagine your life without Delta Zeta? The 1905-1906 school year brought with it some surprises and we almost didn’t have Delta Zeta as we know it today. The Delta Zetas returned with a larger group that fall than before and they all lived together in a house, pledging several new…
Women’s History Month: Curiosity
March 11, 2022 While the Founders reorganized Alpha Chapter in the fall of 1907, Elizabeth Coulter Stephenson was embarking on advanced work at Cornell University in New York state. At that time, a woman college graduate was rare and a female pursuing graduate studies was even rarer. However, Bess as she was affectionately known, came…
Women’s History Month: Friendship
March 4, 2022 Recruitment these days might seem really different than what our Founders experienced. We go from Zoom interactions when in person events are not able to be held to carefully coordinating conversation groups ensuring as many sisters can meet a potential new member in a short amount of time, however, recruitment really hasn’t…
Be an Ally by Crusading for Justice
February 26, 2022 By: Madeline Burkhardt, Beta Xi, Auburn University Adult Education Coordinator and Curator at Rosa Parks Museum Sisters, as members of our Sorority we promise to uphold Delta Zeta’s Creed. We repeat it at every chapter meeting and at many alumnae meet ups. As women, in a predominately white, cisgender sorority, it is…
No matter the age or stage of life, DZ Sisters are there
December 20, 2021 By: Megan Parkman, College Chapter Director, Xi Rho, Clarkson University (Bottom left) I joined Delta Zeta my freshman year before I knew many people and found my network. Kaitlin and I were on the same floor and were already friends, but at the time, I couldn’t imagine how important our friendship would…
Volunteer Spotlight: Brooke Reynolds
November 17, 2021 In 2016, Brooke Reynolds, Gamma Chi – Ball State (IN), became the Collegiate Chapter Director (CCD) for the Pi Omicron Chapter at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). This year she is celebrating five years as a Delta Zeta volunteer Read on to find out how Brooke got her start as a volunteer,…
