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When was Zeta Tau Alpha Founded?

October 15, 1898

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What is the national Philanthropy?

Breast Cancer Education and Awareness

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Which event would not follow the Creed?

A Philanthropy event: Kiss Away Cancer (Hershey Kisses)

A Chapter Bar Crawl

A Sisterhood event where we eat food!

A Chapter Bar Crawl

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What are the 2 main leadership Opportunities in ZTA?

Program Council and Executive Committee

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What is the opening line of the creed?

To Realize that within our grasp in Zeta Tau Alpha Lies the Opportunity to learn those things which will ever enrich and ennoble our lives

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What was the original name of the fraternity?

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What are the official colors of Zeta Tau Alpha?

Turquoise Blue and Steel Gray

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How many points are on the crown?

5

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What is the highest individual honor granted by the fraternity?

Honor Ring?

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What is the final line of the Creed?

REmembering Always that the foundation precept of Zeta Tau Alpha is Love the Greatest of All Things

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Where was ZTA founded?

Longwood University, Farmville, Virginia

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What is our Open Motto?

Seek the Noblest

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Who is the Patron Goddess of ZTA?

Themis

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Official Flower of the Fraternity?

White Violet

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What line comes after "To think in terms of all mankind and our service to the world"

To be steadfast strong and clean of heart and mind remembering that since the thought is father to the deed only that which we have manifested in our experience should be entertained in thought

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Who was the first elected president of ZTA?

Maud Jones Horner

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What are the three entities of Zeta Tau Alpha?

Zeta Tau Alpha Fraternity

Zeta Tau Alpha Fraternity Housing Corporation

Zeta Tau Alpha Foundation

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Who wrote the Creed of Zeta Tau Alpha?

Shirley Kreasan Strout

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What are the 5 Areas of Sisterhood?

Common Purpose

Support and Encouragement

Accountability

Belonging

Shared Social Experience

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"To have the Welfare and Harmony of the Fraternity at heart, ____________________________________________________________________

Striving ever to make our lives a symphony of high ideals. Devotion to the right the good and the true, without a discordant note.

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Why is the strawberry special to Zeta Tau Alpha?

An admirer sent strawberries to Cammie Jones and the founders used it as the reason for the first purely social gathering of ZTA.

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Who are the 9 Founders?

Frances Yancey Smith                            Helen May Crafford

Ruby Leigh Orgain                                 Alice Grey Welsh

Ethel Coleman Van Name                       Maud Jones Horner

Della Lewis Hundley                              Mary Campbell Jones Batte

Alice Bland Coleman


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What area of sisterhood is considered finding your home away from home?

Belonging

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What are the 5 practices of Noble Leadership?

Is Gracious and Kind

Is True to Herself and Others

Thinks Critically

Builds Others Up

Serves Others

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What value does the first line of the creed follow?

Lifelong Learning

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