Award Winning Alumnae

The alumnae chapters in district XVIIA are amazing and very deserving of awards. Congratulations to these chapters for their achievements!

10% Membership Increase: Lawrence, KS Area and Kansas City Metro

Alumnae Chapter Programming: St. Louis

Alumnae-Collegiate Relations: Springfield

Alumnae Service: Mid-Missouri

Alumnae Membership: Lawrence, KS Area

Alumnae Panhellenic: Kansas City Metro

District Silver for Fundraising: St. Louis

Alumnae Zeta Day Attendance Award: St. Louis

KS/MO Zeta Day 2010 a Success

On Saturday, April 10, 2010, 312 Zeta Tau Alpha collegians, alumnae and guests gathered in Springfield, MO for Zeta Day. We celebrated Queens Day Mardi Gras Style and enjoyed sisterhood and service throughout the day.

The day started with traditions like Zeta Day roll call and the national greeting, but it also included a fun Heads or Tails game to raise funds for our ZTA Foundation. It was especially meaningful to recognize our sisters with significant membership anniversaries with the Order of the Shield service. We had one 75-year member and five 50-year members join us!

Collegians decorated candles to give as "beacons of hope" for breast cancer patients and then enjoyed a chant and song competition. Alumnae and graduating seniors networked and shared alumnae membership experiences with one another.

Our national Vice President Collegiate Area I, Mrs. Keeley McDonald Riddle, gave us a keynote speech about "Recruiting Everyday" during lunch. She challenged all of us to be our ZTA best at all times so that we can attract the best women to our sisterhood.

We celebrated with awards for individual members, alumnae chapters and collegiate chapters in the afternoon. Finally, we concluded with the Zeta Spans a Lifetime service for our graduating seniors and a sisterhood circle.

We'll see you in Kansas City for Zeta Day 2011!

Zetas Think Pink! All Year

Is it pink enough for you? Pink just might replace black and orange for the month of October thanks to Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Pink is not just an October color for Zetas, though. After turquoise, it is probably the most loved and worn color for Zeta Tau Alphas!

ZTA alumnae and collegians across the world are "pinking out" their colleges and communities, collecting pink Yoplait lids, wearing and handing out pink ribbons, volunteering at Komen events, organizing countless fundraisers and so much more to promote breast cancer education and awareness.

In our own district, ZTA alumnae are busy doing their part too. The newly forming Flint Hills, KS alumnae chapter in Manhattan is passing out pink ribbons and BSE reminder stickers. The Lawrence, KS Area alumnae have started a partnership with their local Young Survivors Coalition to work together on fundraisers and awareness activities. Alumnae in Kansas City had a great showing at the city's Race for the Cure, and they are doing new and different things to collect pink lids. Mid-Missouri Zetas help the Alpha Psi collegians at Mizzou with their Rockin' for the Ribbon fundraiser, and Springfield alumnae held a Think Pink! garage sale. St. Louis ZTA alumnae focus on sports fans by handing out pink ribbons at Rams football games and Blues hockey games.

Without a doubt, Zetas are "learn[ing] the nobility of service". May the world be a little more pink under our influence!

Zeta Day 2010 in Springfield, MO

Save the date and plan to attend Kansas & Missouri Zeta Day 2010! We will be gathering in Springfield, MO on Saturday, April 10. You will not want to miss this day of sisterhood, service and awards. More information will be coming soon.

Zeta Day Recap

Pink-A-Palooza was fabulous! Over 300 Zetas from KS and MO gathered in St. Louis for Zeta Day. We honored a White Violet, bought crowns to support the ZTA Foundation, played Zeta Jeopardy, and raffled off a quilt and handmade ZTA bags. Highlights include sharing philanthropy ideas and learning how to network. We gathered items for a local shelter, made more than 30 blankets for the shelter and created keychains for breast cancer survivors. Of course we celebrated our successes with awards too! Alumnae awards are below:

10% Membership Increase: Lawrence, KS Area, Mid-Missouri and Springfield, MO

Alumnae-Collegiate Relations: Lawrence, KS Area

Alumnae Website: Springfield, MO

Alumnae Service: Mid-Missouri

Alumnae Public Relations: St. Louis, MO

District President's Silver for Programming: Lawrence, KS Area

Congratulations!

District President Travels & Official Visits

It has been a busy couple of months for your humble District President! In January, I traveled to Springfield, MO to visit alumnae and participate in Province Wide Officer Training (PWOT). I enjoyed a delicious coffee at a local hangout in Springfield and had a great conversation with the President and PR/Historian of the Springfield alumnae chapter. When the President and I got back to her house, we chatted until the wee hours of the morning and thoroughly enjoyed each other's company! PWOT was an excellent day for everyone, and I assisted with the PR/Image session for collegians. I met with the Zeta Day Chair-women, and I also enjoyed spending time with other alumnae I do not see very often.

In February I met with KC Metro alumnae EC officers for a great officer training session. We all brought salad toppings to make our own salad bar buffet, and we covered a broad range of topics that included the Crown Chapter Award, ZTAF contributions, alumnae recruitment and retention, programming and service. KC Metro officers have created useful and attractive notebooks to assist them and the future officers to follow in their footsteps.

In March I stayed closer to home (literally, since I hosted the meeting at my house) for the Lawrence, KS Area chapter visit. The chapter elected its new EC officers for 2009-10 and enjoyed some delicious brunch items. They have had a food/cooking theme all year, so members who attend meetings with food take home a couple of recipes for the things that they sample! I talked about Zeta Day and showed the philanthropy recruitment video and parts of the new member education video.

In April I am headed to St. Louis for Zeta Day, and in July I will travel to Indianapolis for National Leadership Conference. My ZTA travels are a fun way to connect with my Zeta sisters and serve the fraternity that I love dearly.

100 Years of ZTA Love

Mu chapter is celebrating 100 years of ZTA love in 2009! Save the date to join Mu sisters in Springfield on February 14. Alumnae from Drury's ZTA chapter will be receiving save the date postcards in the mail very soon. If you need more information, please contact me at mokszetas@yahoo.com.