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Hello Everyone, and thank you visiting our BoilerLink profile!Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated was founded on the simple belief that sorority elitism and socializing should not overshadow the real mission for progressive organizations- to address societal mores, ills, prejudices, poverty, and health concerns of the day. Founded January 16, 1920, Zeta began as an idea conceived by five coeds at Howard University in Washington D.C.: Arizona Cleaver, Myrtle Tyler, Viola Tyler, Fannie Pettie and Pearl Neal. These five women, also known as our Five Pearls, dared to depart from the traditional coalitions for black women and sought to establish a new organization predicated on the principles of Scholarship, Service, Sisterly Love and Finer Womanhood. It was the ideal of the Founders that the Sorority would reach college women in all parts of the country who were sorority minded and desired to follow the founding principles of the organization. Over the years since the sorority's inception, Zeta Phi Beta has chartered hundreds of chapters and initiated thousands of women around the world. Zeta has continued to thrive and flourish while adapting to the ever-changing needs of a new century. Despite the Great Depression, discrimination and segregation and a host of other challenges, Zeta has continued to hold true to its ideals and purpose, for, as stated by one of the Sorority's founding members: "…I believe that no [other] organization could have been founded upon principles that were so near and dear to all of our hearts." (Founder Myrtle Tyler)The Epsilon Kappa chapter at Purdue University was chartered April 27, 1980 by eleven women. These women are affectionately known as the Eleven Elegant Elite Miracles of Zeta Phi Beta: Kimberly Jackson Warren, Kimberly Holman Jointer, Anna Amos, Terry Dunbar, Rhena Fuller, Loralei Jewel, Gloria Casey, Renee Bohanan, Carrie Murphy Harris, Charlotte Damper, and Robin Thomas. Since then, 44 pledge classes has been inducted into the chapter, upholding the traditions that were set by our chartering class, and dedicating ourselves to our founding principles.We at Epsilon Kappa pride ourselves on scholarship, leadership, friendship, service, hard work and dedication, and finer womanhood. We are an enthusiastic, "community conscious, action-oriented" group of young women who work toward impacting the Purdue campus and the local community.
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