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1931 [[image - drawing of a wildcat]] Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Founded at Howard University, 1920 Thirty-one Chapters Established at Wiley, 1922 The Zeta Phi Beta Sorority was founded a Howard University, Washington, D.C. in January, 1920 by five energetic young women. In 1922, the sorority became a national organization. Theta Chapter, Wiley College, was established in May, 1922 with eighteen scholarly young women and four faculty members. Theta Chapter holds the distinction of being the first chapter of a sorority upon the Wiley campus. Since its organization the chapter has increased to approximately one hundred fifty members. Theta chapter has no associate and no honorary members. There are at present twenty-four active undergraduate members and fourteen active graduate members. The annual features of the sorority are: "Finer Womanhood Week," the last full week in February; Memorial Sunday, the first Sunday in May; the Zeta Picnic for the entertainment of the pledge club; and the "Night in Hawaii" sponsored by the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity and the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority. The present officers of the sorority are as follows: Basileus . . . Vada L. Phillips Anti-Basileus . . . Edna Mae Posey Grammateus . . . Willie Fay Hogan Tamiouchos . . . Mildred T. Portis Epistoleus . . . Olive Mae Wright Philactor . . . Gurtha Cooper Chaplain . . . Doris Kinchlow Parliamentarian . . . Alma R. Johnson Dean of Pledges . . . Lullelia M. Walker UNDER-GRADUATE Benson, Jean Booker, Sallie Breaux, Olga Collins, Thelma Carline, Jessie Mae Cotton, Eula Mae Gibson, Rossye L. Guy, Hazel J. Henderson, Fannie L. Hunter, T. L. Jackson, Helen T. Johnson, Lucy Middleton, Alma C. Thomas, Vivian M. Trahan, Florence GRADUATE Bradford, H. L. Bledsoe, O. L. Coleman, G. D. Corde, C. M. Cox, W. W. Daniel, M. B. Denson, M. W. Frazier, R. M. Hunt, J. C. Jackson, Ethel Johnson, P. D. Kelley, Willie D. Price, Laura Williams, L. B. Williams, Lenora
