FOUNDERS FACTS
How many founders do we have?
What is: 6 (six)
What is the name of the DZ magazine?
What is: "The LAMP of Delta Zeta"
What year and day was Delta Zeta founded?
What is: October 24th 1902
Who are the six founders?
Who is: Anna Keen, Julia Bishop, Mabelle Minton, Mary Collins, Anne Simmons, Alfa Lloyd.
This celebrity is an actress, comedian, writer and producer. She was in Baby Mamma, Unbreakable Kim Schmidt, Ms. Norbury is Mean Girls and other popular movies and T.V. shows.
Who is: Tina Fey
Who was our very first Delta Zeta president?
Who is: Alfa Lloyd
What is the DZ mascot?
What is: a Turtle
What university was Delta Zeta founded?
What is: Miami University of Oxford Ohio
Who was the only founder to marry her college sweetheart?
Who is: Julia Bishop
This celebrity was the Executive Vice President and Director of the Betty Crocker Kitchens at General Mills. First female vice president of General Mills.
(hint: she has the same first name as a car brand)
Who is: Mercedes Bates
Where did Anne Simmons graduate from before attending Miami University in Oxford Ohio?
What is: Cincinnati University
When was the Pi Phi Chapter founded?
What is: November 8th 2015
What is the Delta Zeta flower?
What is: Kilarny Rose
Who is the only founder of Delta Zeta who did NOT hold office?
Who is: Anna Keen
She was 1987 Woman of the Year, College and Olympic basketball coach. Inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame and inaugural ESPY Award winner.
Who is: Kay Yow
How old was Mary Collins when she became apart of the Flame Eternal in 1963
What is: 84 years old
Who was the first president of the Delta Zeta Pi Phi Chapter?
Who is: Mollie Ballew
What are the names of all three of our Philanthropic partners?
What is: Starkey Hearing Foundation, SeriousFun Children's Network, American Society for Deaf Children
Which of our founders, establish the Iota (Iowa), Omicron (Pittsburg), and Xi (Cincinnati) chapters?
Who is: Mabelle Minton
She was 2005 Woman of the Year, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Wesfam Restaurants, Inc., a franchise of Burger King Corporation in Alabama.
Who is: Jean Baughman Templeton
What was Alfa Lloyds major in college?
What is: Pedagogy
(Pedagogy is the art, science, and practice of teaching, focusing on how learning occurs and how instructional methods are designed to help students absorb information)
In what decade did Delta Zeta adopt speech and hearing as its philanthropy?
What is: 1950s (1954)
What are the elements of the Delta Zeta badge?
What is: Roman Lamp, diamond, pearls
Who was the first to be initiated in to the Delta Zeta sorority in March 1903. (yes that date is correct)
(Hint: it is NOT one of the original six, she was our second National President elected in 1912)
Who is: Elizabeth Coulter Stephenson
https://www.deltazeta.org/blog/growing-delta-zeta-elizabeth-coulter-stephenson-order-of-the-laurel/
This royal during her US tour, was initiated, together with her lady-in-waiting Ragni Østgaard, into the Delta Zeta sorority being pinned at the University of North Dakota by Delta Zeta national president Myrtle Graeter Malott.
Who is: Princess Märtha of Sweden