Alfa Lloyed - October 1880 -February -1962. She was 22 when Delta Zeta was founded,28 when she became Grand President, the same year she was married. As a tribute the official chartering date for Delta Zeta was set as October 24, her birthday. Grand President 1908-1912. Historian, 1912-1916.

Anne Keen - September 1884 - August 1949. She was 18 when she became a Delta Zeta. She was the only founder who held no office or any Grand Council position.

Julia Bishop - May 1881 -May 1959. Joined Delta Zeta when 21. She was the first treasurer.Also Vice-President in charge of Alumnae and National President 1924-1926. Served as a National Historian. She was the only one of the original group to return to campus fall of 1903.

Mabelle Minton - November 1880 - 1929. When Delta Zeta was founded she wasn't quite 22. On Grand Council, she was Recording Secetary, 1912-1914 and National Inspector, 1914-1916.

Anne Simmons - January 1879 - September 1932. When Delta Zeta was founded she was 23. She served as Alumnae Vice President during Bishop's Presidency, and succeeded to Presidency in 1926 -1928. Iota chapter was fortunate to have her as a housemother in 1929-1930.

Mary Collins - December 1879 - March 1963. Her service on Grand Council was one term as Parliamentarian, 1912-1924. She was one of the three who recieved the Order of the Golden Rose at the 1952 Convention, and attended the Alpha Chapter Reunion the following October.

Sorority is being Established:

A marked advance was noted with the inaguration, in 1902, of a new President. This was Dr. Guy Benton, by nature and inheritance one given to progress and educational excellence. Two new acts he immediately took were of lasting influence. He began the publication of a regular news-bulletin to keep the citizens informed about the University, and he planned for the admission of young women to the full academic course in addition to the normal school training it had offered them since 1892. An encouraging response met his invitation, and in the Fall he could welcome those adventurous young women who were to write a new chapter in the history of Miami University.

Several girls expressed a wish for continued enjoyment of social affiars, and some with friends or relatives in the fraternities commented a bit enviously of the advantages those societies could offer. Alfa Lloyed had a Welsh rarebit party,popular just then. There more serious talk took place,and led to a meeting, three days later, in which their wishes crystallized into the decision to form a sorority. Obviously this girls did not now much of the women's greek-letter groups to go futher and plan this organization they went to Dr. Benton. A member of Phi Delta Theta he was immediately sympathetic, full of wise, inspiration and practical guidance. Because of this guidance the date of October 24, 1902, the department of incorporation issued formal articles certifing first, the name, Delta Zeta, second; location, Miami University, Oxford in Butlur County, Ohio. Third; To build up the character and cultivate the truest and deepest friendship amoung its members. To stimulate one another in the pursuit of knowledge and the attainment of a high standard morality; to inculate elevated sentiments and noble principles and to afford each other every possible assistance and to incite all the attainment of a memorable fame.