Texas Christian University
Zeta Tau Alpha
Hey y'all!
We're glad you're here! We hope you are enjoying our website and are learning some fun things about what makes Zeta special. Zeta has made an impact on each of our members' lives in many different ways, and we can't wait to share that with you!
Zeta love & Mine,
The Gamma Psi Chapter
Zeta Tau Alpha was founded Oct. 15, 1898, at the Virginia State Female Normal School (now Longwood University) in Farmville, Virginia. We now have 218,000 initiated members, 159 active collegiate chapters, and 235 alumnae chapters across the country.
The Zeta Tau Alpha Foundation is the philanthropic and fund raising arm of the Fraternity. The ZTAF leads our efforts in breast cancer education and awareness, provides more than $620,000 in scholarships annually, and sponsors educational and leadership opportunities for our members and others.
The ZTA Fraternity Housing Corporation is the largest in the Panhellenic world and provides safe, secure, and competitive housing for all our collegiate members.
We hope you’ll explore our website to find additional information about our organization, philanthropy, events and programming.
Creed of Zeta Tau Alpha
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; to be true to ourselves, to those within and without our circle; to think in terms of all mankind and our service in 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 would have manifested in our experience should be entertained in thought; to find satisfaction in being, rather than seeming, thus strengthening in us the higher qualities of the spirit; to prepare for service and learn the nobility of serving, thereby earning the right to be served; to seek understanding that we might gain true wisdom; to look for the good in everyone; to see beauty, with its enriching influence; to be humble in success, and without bitterness in defeat; 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; remembering always that the foundation precept of Zeta Tau Alpha was Love, “the greatest of all things.”
Purpose
The purpose of Zeta Tau Alpha is the intensifying of friendship, the fostering of a spirit of love, the creating of such sentiments, the performing of such deeds, and the moulding of such opinions as will be conducive to the building up of a purer and nobler womanhood in the world.
FACTS
Founded: October 15, 1898 at Longwood University
Gamma Psi Chapter Founded: April 16, 1955
Open Motto: "Seek The Noblest"
Flower: White Violet
Symbol: Five Point Crown and Strawberry
Colors: Turquoise Blue and Steel Gray
Miss USA: TCU Zeta Alumna, Sarah Rose Summers, was crowned Miss USA in 2018!
Mission Statement
To make a difference in the lives of our members by developing the potential of each individual through innovative programming, which emphasizes leadership development, service to others, academic achievement and continued personal growth for women, with a commitment to friendship and the future based on the sisterhood, values and traditions of the past.
