·Zeta Tau Alpha was founded October 15, 1898, by nine women at the State
  Female Normal School (now Longwood University) in Farmville, Virginia.

·The purpose of ZTA is: The purpose of Zeta Tau Alpha is to intensify
  friendship, promote happiness among its members, to perform such deeds, and to
  mould such opinions as will conduce to the building up of a purer and nobler
  womanhood in the world.

·The nine founders of ZTA are: Maud Jones Horner, Died 1920 Della Lewis
  Hundley, Died July 12, 1951 Alice Bland Coleman, Died June 11, 1956 Mary Jones Batte,
  Died December 3, 1957 Alice Grey Welsh, Died June 21, 1960 Ethel Coleman Van Name,
  Died January 24, 1964 Helen M. Crafford, Died September 17, 1964 Frances Yancey Smith,
  Died April 23, 1977 Ruby Leigh Orgain, Died October 22, 1984

·The open motto of ZTA is: 'Seek the Noblest'

·The colors of ZTA are: turquoise blue and steel gray.

·Official Symbols: The five-pointed Crown is an official symbol of the Fraternity.
  In the late 1800s, an admirer of one of ZTA's Founders, Mary Campbell Jones (Batte), sent
  her a gift of strawberries. The scrumptious present prompted the group of nine friends to
  host their first purely social gathering and to become officially recognized as a campus
  organization.

·Flower- The flower of the Fraternity, chosen by Founder Ruby Leigh Orgain, is the
  white violet.

·Patron Goddess- The Founders chose Themis to represent the Fraternity. Themis is,
  in Greek mythology, one of the Titans, daughter of Gaea (Earth) and Uranus (Heaven), and the
  mother of the three Fates and the Seasons. The goddess of divine justice and law, Themis was
  the constant companion of the god Zeus and sat beside him on Olympus. In ancient art she is
  represented holding aloft a pair of scales on which she weighs the claims of opposing parties.

·There are currently 235 chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha. The Rockhurst Chapter being the
  221 chapter to receive a charter. The Rockhurst Chapter was founded on April 16,1994.