Alpha Zeta Fraternity

Alpha Zeta Fraternity is the first-known fraternity in the United States founded by international Latin American students. Alpha Zeta was founded at Cornell University on January 1, 1890.[1] In the fall of 1889, international Latin American students decided to form a fraternity that would cater to their needs. Since travelling was more of a challenge in 1889–1890, during the winter break, the organization's founders stayed in Ithaca, New York. On New Year's Day in 1890, at a meeting on campus, the founders formed the first Latin American student fraternity in the United States.[2] This organization led a movement of international Latin American fraternities that existed in the early part oft the 20th century before becoming defunct.[2] Psi Alpha Kappa, founded at Lehigh University in the fall of 1900, was the first inter-collegiate Latin American fraternity to be established in the United States.[3]

Alpha Zeta was active on the Cornell University campus for less than a decade before it became defunct.

References

  1. ↑ "Alpha Chapter of Alpha Zeta". January 1890 – via The Cornell Daily Sun.
  2. 1 2 Fajardo, Oliver (January 2015). "A Brief History of International Latin American Student Fraternities: A Movement That Lasted 86 Years (1889-1975)". Journal of Hispanic Higher Education. January 2015 Volume 14. doi:10.1177/1538192714548928.
  3. ↑ The Epitome. Lehigh University. 1903.
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