If you are interested in applying for the General Foundation Award Scholarship, please look for more information on the Scholarship Page!

The application deadline is April 15th, 2010. Please direct any questions to Foundation Executive Director, Valerie Glowinski at foundation@zetaphieta.org.

Looking to pay your dues?

If you need to pay your dues, you have a couple options.

You may mail your dues ($30 professional or $20 campus) to Central Office

Zeta Phi Eta Central Office
c/o Tara Sapienza
12 Riverside Dr. Apt. R
Cranford, NJ 07016

Online Dues Payment

Online Dues payment is available by clicking the links below.
Please click the link appropriate for your membership status.

Campus Chapter Dues- Click Here

Professional Chapter Dues- Click Here

The Zeta Phi Eta National Council would like to wish you and yours all of the happiness of the holiday season in this New Year! Happy 2010!

Introducing the National Council Facebook and Twitter Accounts!

Zeta’s National Council now has both Facebook and Twitter accounts! Please use these networks as a way of keeping in touch with friends, updating us with news or events, or as another method of contacting us!

Facebook: Zeta Phi Eta National Council Page

Twitter: ZetaPhiEtaNC

2009-2011 Officers

Co-President: Maria Burns (Alpha/Southern CA) San Diego, CA
Co-President: Elina  Kotlyar (Alpha) Urbana, IL
1st Vice-President: Sarah Rayburn (Beta Zeta) Austin, TX
2nd Vice-President/Members-at-Large: Vacant
Secretary: Blair Shiff (Beta Zeta) Austin, TX
Treasurer/Fundraising Chair: Marc Cocchiola (Alpha) Easton, PA
Cameo Editor: Meagan Gribbin (Beta Epsilon) Slippery Rock, PA
Advisory Board Chair: Tom O’Connor (Alpha) New York City, NY
Central Office Executive Director: Tara Sapienza (Alpha) Cranford, NJ
Foundation Executive Director: Valerie Glowinski (Chicago North-Shore) Chicago, IL
Foundation Treasurer/Illinois Registered Agent: Sandy Riggs (Chicago North-Shore) Chicago, IL
Webmaster: Kyle Faticoni (Alpha) Burlington, CT
Historian: Vacant

Chairs/Board Members:

Communications/PR Chair: Vacant
Career Development Chair: Vacant
Convention 2011 Chair: James Burns (Southern CA Professional)
Bylaws Chair: Vacant
Advisory Board Members:
Quincalee Brown (Alpha Zeta)
Mari McCarty (Alpha Delta Assoc.)
Annette Miller (Omega)
Joyce Turley Nicholas  (Alpha Nu Assoc.)
Sharon Stockton (Alpha Alpha Assoc.)
Lise Simring  (Alpha/Boston Professional)

Scholarship Deadline – EXTENDED!!!

Marguerite Garden Jones Award
Due to the convention cancellation this summer, electronic voting and the transition of officers, the Marguerite Garden Jones Scholarship deadline of November 15th has been extended until December 1st.

Don’t forget to get your application in for the Marguerite Garden Jones Award.  This scholarship is awarded by the Zeta Phi Eta Foundation to be used for course work or a worthwhile project in communications.

Marguerite Garden Jones (1914-1978) was an exceptional woman and an exemplary Zeta.  She became a member at the University of Minnesota, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Speech and Literature.  She helped to organize the Washington, D.C. areaProfessional Chapter, and was a founder of the Greater Washington Educational Television Association.  She also served for three years as Zeta’s National First Vice President.  Marguerite was known for her
lifelong devotion to professional excellence.

For more information on how to apply, please visit: http://www.zetaphieta.org/scholarship.html.

Send Us Your Updates

National Council would love to hear about your achievements,  ideas, and thoughts. Whether you’ve moved to a new city, organized a community service event, just gotten married,
or won an award – we’d love for you to tell us about it! Feel free to email us with any chapter, personal, or professional updates that you’d like to share and you might see it in a future e-newsletter, on the website, or in an issue of the Cameo.  Email updates to: president@zetaphieta.org.

Dear Zetas,

Happy Founder’s Day from all of us on the National Council of Zeta Phi Eta.  It’s hard to believe that it’s already this time of year again….  

This past year has been a challenging one for Zeta Phi Eta and many of it’s members.  But I am excited to share that things are moving forward now in a very positive way ….

Due to the cancellation of the 2009 Convention, the official voting for the new Slate of Zeta Phi Eta National Council officers in currently taking place electronically NOW with the official transition planned for the end of October 2009.  All Chapters and National Council officers have an official vote.  Please vote now!
 
In addition, all of the chapters are working hard to continue to Achieve with Wisdom, Integrity and Love.  Thank you to everyone that helped with all of the different projects going on over the last few years.  We couldn’t have gotten this far without your help.  But we are not finished yet…We still need your help!

Are you interested in serving on a Committee, taking on a Chair position, starting a new Chapter, getting involved with a local chapter or serving on the National Council?  If you are interested in getting involved with Zeta in any way or would like to share your thoughts or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me at president@zetaphieta.org.

Initial plans for the 2011 convention are already underway.  More details will be announced soon as well as other programs and ideas to connect us all in 2010.   

For more information, please visit our website at www.zetaphieta.org. 

I hope to hear from you soon. 

Best wishes to you and your family on the 116th Anniversary of Zeta Phi Eta.

In Zeta,

Maria Schloerb Burns
National President
Zeta Phi Eta

The Alpha chapter at Emerson college is selling cookbooks as a fundraiser. Please check it out and support them.

From the web page:

This 53-page, full-color book features over 50 time-tested recipes for breakfast, appetizers, main courses, side dishes, and desserts and features a variety of photos of the cooks themselves in action, preparing their dishes right in front of you!  It makes a great holiday gift!

We are always accepting contributions for the next edition of the CAMEO, our semi-annual publication. Most of the content is to update Zetas on the goings-on of chapters around the country, but we would also like to have at least a couple professional development articles in each issues.

With that in mind, if you would like to write an article that highlights your experience and expertise in any area of communication, we would love to have you submit it. Even if length is an issue, we can print an excerpt in CAMEO and included the bulk of your paper/article/story online.

We will be accepting scholarly articles, professional advice or professional information articles, short stories, poems and more.

If you’re interested in publication in CAMEO or online, please submit your writing or questions to our CAMEO editor at cameo@zetaphieta.org

We’re under construction, but welcome!.