Looking Ahead to 2012

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There are a number of events planned for the first few weeks of 2012. Start the new year off by renewing your ties to Zeta Tau Alpha.

January 23 @ 5:30 PM

On Monday, January 23 please join the Alumnae Officers at The Wine Loft to talk about the officer slate for the 2012-13 planning year. Additionally, we’ll be recruiting alumnae to assist with specific events like Finals Week Goody Bags and the Graduating Senior Dinner for Beta Gamma Chapter Members.

The Wine Loft is located on the corner of Thomasville Road and 6th Avenue. The group will start arriving around 5:30 PM.

February 11 @ 11:00 AM

The annual Tallahassee Alumnae Panhellenic Scholarship Luncheon and Auction will be held at the newly remodeled Kappa Alpha Theta house at 510 W. Park Avenue. The guest speaker this year is Dee Dee Rasmussen, Leon County School Board Member and a Kappa Alpha Theta Alumna. During the silent auction you will have the opportunity to bid on fabulous gift baskets, merchandise, edibles, live plants and more! After a delicious luncheon and awards ceremony, enjoy the exclusive live auction.

Our Alumnae Panhellenic Representative, Barbara Forbes-Lyons, hopes we can fill a table with ZTA alumnae this year.

Send your checks ($25) and RSVP for the to the Alumnae Panhellenic Treasurer, Shelley Green. Her address is 11387 Turkey Roost Road, Tallahassee, FL 32317.

ZTA Donation for the Auction

Tallahassee Alumnae Panhellenic, Inc. has asked all local alumnae chapters to band together and create themed gift baskets for the silent auction. These baskets are much sought-after and in 2010, the ZTA basket was one of the highest bids in its’ category.  This year we want to put together a Souper Supper basket and we need your help.

Please consider donating one or more of the following items to the basket OR make a direct monetary gift to purchase the needed items.

Items must be received by Monday, February 6. Contact our Alumnae Panhellenic Representative, Barbara Forbes-Lyons to reserve an item for the basket or to set up a time to drop off your donation.

Items needed:

  • 4 – 6 quart slow cooker (new)
  • Ladle
  • Cute/clever cutting board
  • Soup Cookbook
  • Bread Cookbook
  • 4 soup bowls and matching salad plates
  • 4 sets placemats & napkins
  • Salt Shaker & Pepper Grinder
  • $25 Publix Gift Card
  • Selection of dried beans, barley, rice, peas
  • Boxes chicken, beef, or vegetable stock
  • Dried parsley, bay leaves

ZTA Day is March 24

2012 Florida ZTA Day will be in Jacksonville at the University of North Florida. Details to  follow – let’s plan on a group car pooling to Jacksonville!

2011 Founders’ Day Message

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Happy Founders’ Day 2011!

 
This past July, over 500 Zeta Tau Alpha members participated in our National Leadership Conference in Indianapolis, where our theme was “Create the Change.”

None of us would have had the opportunity to gather together at NLC or even become members of Zeta Tau Alpha if our nine Founders had not wanted to create change at the Female Normal School in Farmville, Va., in 1898. The campus already had several other sororities and many student organizations and clubs that the young women could join.

“We were not content to be only a club,” Founder Maud Jones Horner said at ZTA’s first Convention in 1904. “Each of us belonged to several already, and they did not satisfy our longing.”

Instead, according to The History of Zeta Tau Alpha, our Founders longed for a sisterhood of women who were honest, true, intelligent and scholarly. “We wished to be something stronger and greater,” Maud continued, “to reach far out to have influence wherever we went.”

Our charge to the collegiate leaders who attended NLC was to identify the changes their chapters could make so that they would be stronger and greater and become a positive influence on their campuses.“Create the Change” was not a call to alter our founding principles; to the contrary, it was a charge to return to those principles by changing any practices within our chapters that deviate from them.

Each of us, collegiate and alumnae members alike, has an obligation to challenge cultural trends and popular practices that might steer us off course from our Founders’ intent. Today, I hope every member of Zeta Tau Alpha will pledge to create the change in her chapter, her campus and her community. We must have a commitment to change if we are to make our Fraternity “something stronger and greater” and continue to further the mission, values and purpose that our Founders envisioned.

Given under my hand and seal, I proclaim the fifteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord, two thousand and eleven, as our 113th Founders’ Day.

Keeley McDonald Riddle, National President
Landing, New Jersey – October 2011