Some Important Facts About Zeta Tau Alpha

    Zeta Tau Alph Fraternity was Founded on October 15, 1898 at the Virginia State Female Normal School in Farmsville, Virginia.   The nine women who organized  Zeta Tau Alpha are:  Maud Jones Horner, Alice Bland Coleman, Ethel Coleman Van Name, Ruby Leigh Orgain, Frances Yancey Smith, Della Lewis Hundley, Helen M. Crawford, Alice Grey Welsh, and Mary Jones Batte.  They started as a group of friends and with their great effort and dedication organized what was to become a National Fraternity that will grow and prosper.

Zeta Tau Alpha, ZTA, was the first womens fraternity to be chartered in the state of Virginia.  Zeta Tau Alpha's International Office is located at 3330 Founders Road in Indianapolis, Indiana.  This is the center of the Fraternity. 

  We try to live by our motto     "Seek the Noblest".

"It is the object of this Fraternity to cultivate a higher ideal of womanhood and to encourage all those womanly traits existent in our kind, to give a firmer foundation to those friendships founded on college campanionship, to promote sympathy in both sorrows and pleasures, to furnish aid and sisterly advice in our school life"

-Maude Jones Horner (One of the Nine Founders of Zeta Tau Alpha)

The Symbols of Zeta Tau Alpha

    The Crest Of Zeta Tau Alpha

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Flower:

          The flower of Zeta Tau Alpha is the White Violet

The Strawberry is a National Symbol of Zeta Tau Alpha. It all began when Maud Jones Horner, one of the nine founders, received strawberries from her secret admirer. She served these strawberries at one of the first social Zeta Tau Alpha functions. They have been the National symbol of ZTA ever since.

     The Gamma Epsilon Chapter at Penn State along with some other chapters at various universities has a bunny as a symbol for Zeta.  However,  it is not a national symbol.

  The Philanthropy of Zeta Tau Alpha is raising money for the Susan G. Komen Foundation. 

The secrets of Zeta Tau Alpha are within The Disney Movie "The Little Mermaid"

Gamma Epsilon Chapter

of Zeta Tau Alpha at Penn State University

   We are the Gamma Epsilon Chapter at Penn State University.  We make up the     78th link our of the 233 Links of Zeta Tau Alpha.  We were installed at Penn State University in 1939.