National Council would like to extend our heartfelt congratulations to our recent graduates! All of your hard work has paid off– WELL DONE!

Furthermore, we’d like to wish everyone a safe and wonderful summer season!

If you haven’t already done so, please remember to update your contact information with Central Office, by either e-mailing Tara at coed@zetaphieta.org or mailing it to:

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

We are pleased to announce that you can now submit the Scholarship Applications and Recommendation Letters ONLINE!

Reminder, the deadline to apply for the Foundation Scholarship has been extended to April 30th, so get your applications in!

Please DOWNLOAD the application, fill it out, and then upload it HERE. *Note: to download the application, please right click the link and select “Save Link As.”

If you are submitting a recommendation form on behalf of an applicant, you may do so HERE.

More information about the Scholarships can be found on the Scholarship Page.

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.

The Zeta Phi Eta National Convention 2009 is coming soon. We will be “Looking In, Reaching Out: Communicating from the Heart,” August 7 – 9 in Philadelphia, PA.

For more information watch the National Convention page (accessible in the top menu of the site).

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!