06-zeta-phi-betaPROCLAMATION 2004-06
WHEREAS Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated is a historically African-American sorority founded January 16, 1920 at Howard University. A community service oriented organization, the
main focus of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority is “Z-HOPE: Zetas Helping Other People Excel”. In everything that it does, this organization continues to enhance the ideals of scholarship, service,
sisterly love and finer womanhood; and
WHEREAS Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated, a historically African-American fraternity founded January 9, 1914 at Howard University, is a community service based organization that
upholds the principles of brotherhood, service, and scholarship. This organization, consisting of men of distinction and operates under the umbrella of “Bigger and Better Business, Social
Action, and Education”; and
WHEREAS Being the only constitutionally bound brother and sister African-American fraternal organizations, the Southern Region of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority and the Gulf Coast Region of
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity will jointly host the Undergraduate Leadership Retreat on the campus of Sam Houston State University on February 27-28, 2004; and
WHEREAS The City of Huntsville salutes Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated and Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated on this occasion and extends best wishes to all for a successful
and rewarding retreat;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY PROCLAIMED, by the power vested in me as Mayor of the City of Huntsville that
February 27-28, 2004
be proclaimed
ZETA PHI BETA SORORITY, INCORPORATED
SOUTHERN REGION DAYS
AND
PHI BETA SIGMA FRATERNITY, INCORPORATED
GULF COAST REGION DAYS
PROCLAIMED AND SIGNED on this the 28th day of February 2004.
THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS
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Karl Davidson, Mayor