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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 37 

Honoring Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., on reaching the historic milestone 

of 103 years of scholarship, service, sisterhood, and finer womanhood. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 13, 2023 

Ms. KAMLAGER-DOVE (for herself, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia, Ms. CROCKETT, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Ms. ADAMS, Mrs. FOUSHEE, 

Mrs. SYKES, Ms. WILSON of Florida, Mr. CARTER of Louisiana, Mr. 

BISHOP of Georgia, Mrs. MCBATH, Ms. PLASKETT, and Mr. MFUME) 

submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 

on Education and the Workforce 

RESOLUTION 

Honoring Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., on reaching the historic milestone of 103 years of scholarship, service, sisterhood, and finer womanhood. 

Whereas Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., was founded on January 16, 1920, at Howard University in Washington, DC, 

by five finer women, Arizona Cleaver Stemons, Pearl 

Anna Neal, Myrtle Tyler Faithful, Viola Tyler Goings, 

and Fannie Pettie Watts; 

Whereas these ‘‘Five Pearls’’ who founded Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., were dedicated to a core desire to provide 

true service, embrace scholarship, set a standard for sisterly love and finer womanhood; 


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Whereas, on March 30, 1923, in Washington, DC, Zeta Phi 

Beta Sorority, Inc., was incorporated to ensure the permanence of the organization by Myrtle Tyler Faithful, 

Gladys Warrington, Joanna Houston, Josephine F. Johnson, and L.O. Goldia Smith; 

Whereas, since its founding in 1920, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, 

Inc., has chartered hundreds of chapters worldwide and 

has a membership of over 100,000 and is divided into 

eight intercontinental regions and over 875 chapters located in the United States, Africa, Europe, Asia, and the 

Caribbean; 

Whereas the organization’s innovation has resulted in several 

firsts, it was the first National Pan-Hellenic Council organization to centralize its operations in a national headquarters, first to charter a chapter in Africa, first to 

form auxiliary groups, and first to be constitutionally 

bound to a fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.; 

Whereas Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., is dedicated to expanding their reach and has made a concerted effort to develop chapters at both predominantly white institutions 

and historically Black colleges and universities; 

Whereas Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., has remained dedicated in realizing the vision statement of being ‘‘an organization aimed towards the people and community by 

raising awareness, encouraging the highest standards for 

scholastic achievement, and a greater meaning of unity 

among members’’; 

Whereas the current members of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, 

Inc., inherit a legacy built by former members who have 

left remarkable imprints in their fields, including 

Bernette Johnson, the first Black woman to serve on the 


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Louisiana Supreme Court and the first Black woman to 

become Chief Justice, Syleena Johnson, a Grammy 

Award nominee R&B singer, Dr. Elizabeth Koontz, a renowned educator, Dionne Warwick, a former Goodwill 

Ambassador to the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture 

Organization, Zora Neale Hurston, an author, filmmaker, 

and anthropologist, and Sheryl Underwood, a comedian 

and television host; and 

Whereas Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., continues to make a 

difference in the United States and around the world, always following the footsteps of its founders and upholding the motto of Zeta Phi Beta, Sorority, Inc., to be ‘‘a 

community-conscious, action-oriented organization’’: 

Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives con2 gratulates and commends Zeta Phi Beta, Sorority, Inc., 

3 on 103 years of scholarship, service, sisterhood, and finer 

4 womanhood. 

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