ZTA Extension Opportunity at Kansas State!

We have exciting news! Kansas State University is open for expansion to colonize a new NPC group on campus in the fall of 2010. Zeta Tau Alpha applied for this opportunity to reinstate our Beta Upsilon Chapter and has been invited to present as part of that process. We are excited about the prospect of restoring the 69th link in our Chain of Chapters at this wonderful Big 12 campus.

Our extension presentation at K-State will be Thursday, April 23. National President Laura Ladewig Mauro, Executive Director Deb Ensor, National Housing Corporation President Julia Marthaler Hill and National Extension Director Karen Farmer Mills will represent the Fraternity. Alumnae are encouraged to attend a reception at 6 p.m., so please save that date on your calendars.

To prepare for our presentation, we invite you to an organizational meeting of ZTA alumnae at 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 14, at the Holiday Inn in Manhattan. ZTA Fraternity Housing Corporation Director Cynthia Byars Courtney, a former ZTA Extension Director, will host that gathering. Cynthia made an exploratory to K-State and has all the background information on the University’s expectations of the new sorority. A large group of excited and committed alumnae makes a big impression on a school’s extension committee and can be a deciding factor in the selection process.

ZTA has very successful collegiate chapters at Baker University and at Washburn University and wonderful alumnae chapters in Kansas City and Lawrence. The K-State Panhellenic has also invited Delta Gamma and Alpha Phi to make presentations. Delta Gamma has chapters at Washburn and Wichita State; Alpha Phi has chapters at Washburn and Wichita State. So we know the “competition” will bring many Sunflower State representatives to their presentations. We need to represent ZTA in a big way!

If you can attend the reception on April 14, if you cannot attend but are interested in being involved with a new colony at K-State, or if you are interested in finding out more information about a ZTA alumnae chapter in your area, please contact me at mokszetas@yahoo.com.