Starting A Sorority

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Perhaps ZTA removed the quote above from its national website to avoid risk of the very confusion seen in this thread.

That was my thought too. But if KD was there first, why avoid the term?

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

But if KD was there first, why avoid the term?

You never know. Perhaps the founders of ZTA thought the founders of KD should have avoided the term.

Perhaps some of the founders of ZTA had a personal connection with little sister groups at Hampden-Sydney or elsewhere that the KD founders didn't have. (The Zeta website says that while the new group was considering what to adopt as a name, "the group received valuable assistance from two of the members’ brothers -- Maud’s brother, Plummer Jones, and Frances Yancey Smith’s brother Giles Mebane Smith. Both were students at the college of William and Mary, members of men’s Greek-letter organizations and knowledgeable of Greek lore." Perhaps they advised against using the term "sorority" because of how that term was used at W&M.)

I don't know the ages of the founders of KD at the time of founding, but the founders of ZTA of were 14-15. Perhaps they felt a stronger desire to avoid any suggestion of being "little sisters."

All of these perhapses are just my guesses. I found an old and very think history of ZTA in a used bookstore a year or two ago, which we gave to my sister-in-law. If I get a chance to check that source, I'll do so.