Epsilon Rho Zeta Chapter's Journey to Centennial

1920-2020 Centennial Exhibit

Epsilon Rho Zeta Chapter in partnership with the Delaware Historical Society, will present a centennial exhibit in the Mitchell Center for African American Heritage. The exhibit, titled ​"100 Year's of Finer Womanhood & Service", will highlight the legacy of our International Organization along with the local work of Epsilon Rho Zeta Chapter in New Castle County and throughout the State of Delaware. 

Our Founders Inspired Our Charter Members

Our Founders envisioned a sorority which would directly affect positive change, chart a course of action for the 1920's and beyond, raise consciousness of their people, encourage the highest standards of scholastic achievement, and foster a greater sense of unity among its members. These women believed that sorority elitism and socializing overshadowed the real mission of progressive organizations and failed to address fully the societal mores, ills, prejudices, and poverty affecting humanity in general and the black community in particular.  

Delaware Historical Society

Epsilon Rho Zeta Chapter donates $2,700 to the Mitchell Center for African American Heritage in 2015.

Epsilon Rho Zeta 65 Years of Sisterhood

Epsilon Rho Zeta Chapter was chartered on September 15th, 1955 by five dynamic women who were pillars in the New Castle County Community. Hannah Hall and Kathering Bessileu Ross were initiated in Gamma Nu Zeta Chapter, in Camden New Jersery and for two years commuted to Camden for meetings and events. Hannah Hall, Karryle Joy Moore, Katherine Bessileu Ross, Loretta Wilson, and Marion Woods, chartered our Wilmington, Delaware chapter after identifying a need to support the needs of the community. Hitting the ground running, in 1956, Epsilon Rho Zeta Chapter initiated its first members, Bertha Johnson and Marion Walley. 

Centennial Exhibit
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