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The first Junior Beta Club was established at Millsap Elementary in Millsap, Texas in August 1961. [23] The Beta Club held its first national convention in June 1981 in Orlando, Florida. [23] It celebrated Founder's Day for the first time on October 27, 2017. [23] The Elementary Beta division was launched in 2023. [23]
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. (ΖΦΒ) is an International collegiate sorority that is historically African American.In 1920, five women from Howard University envisioned a sorority that would raise the consciousness of their people, encourage the highest standards of scholastic achievement, and foster a greater sense of unity among its members.
This network, known commonly as the "Greek Underworld" included organizations such as Seven Equals, Kappa Beta Phi, Sigma Phi Sigma, Kappa Nu Theta, and Sigma Alpha Beta. It is currently home to at least six secret honor societies that still participate in an annual public Taies Day ceremony at the end of each spring semester.
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. (ΦΒΣ) is a historically African American fraternity.It was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C., on January 9, 1914, by three young African-American male students with nine other Howard students as charter members.
The cameo and pearl pin of Alpha became the national fraternity's official badge, and the shield and torch of Beta became its the coat of arms. [3] The Zeta Phi Eta badge is a rose-colored cameo upon which is carved the letter name of the Fraternity in white, surrounded by 23 pearls.
Beta Theta Pi (ΒΘΠ), commonly known as Beta, is a North American social fraternity that was founded in 1839 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. One of North America's oldest fraternities, as of August 2023 it consists of 150 active chapters and colonies in the United States and Canada. [ 1 ]
Tau Beta Sigma was founded at Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University) by Wava Banes (Turner Henry). [1] Due to corporation laws in the state of Texas at the time, however, the Texas Tech sisters surrendered their name, ritual, jewelry, constitution and Alpha chapter designation in January 1946 to the local band sorority at Oklahoma State University. [1]
He is credited with choosing the nine charter members of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity. Founder Brown founded the Delta Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, on April 9, 1917, and was a teacher at the Kansas Industrial School for Negroes in Topeka, Kansas.