Awards and Honors


      National Convention
  • Crown chapter since inception     
  • Financial achievement award
  • Sisterhood award
  • Quota/Total award
  • 2nd runner-up for Merit Award
  • Outstanding Area Advisor award
  • 4 national scholarships in 1998
  • Highly commendable scholarship achievement
  • Val Ross Scholarship
  • Recipient of highest convention award, Helen Margaret Harrison, in 1988
  • National Panhellenic Award named after Valera Clough Ross, Sigma alumna
      Homecoming Awards
  • Olympics - 1st place
  • Skit - 2nd place
  • House Decorations - 2nd place
  • Royalty - 1st runner-up
      Baker Acheivements
  • Every Sigma chapter member is involved in at least one outside activity.
  • 2nd highest House GPA on campus
  • 8 Zetas serve as University parmentor, including head parmentor.
  • 7 Zetas chosen as First Year Experience student instructors/orientation leaders
  • Alisha Ward - Student Activities Committee Vice President
  • 4 Zetas chosen as Univeristy Admission Assistants.
  • Involved in cross-country, track, poms, volleyball, chamber choir, tennis, soccer, debate, basketball, band, golf, yearbook, softball, orchestra, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Organization of Women Leaders, Cardinal Key, Student Senate Vice President, Radio DJs, Panhellenic
      Academic Acheivements
  • Mary Tolman - essay published in Yale Review
  • Gerry Randall - won exceptional student at National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institute of Health, Goldwater Scholarship, 1999
  • Wendy Hermreck - finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship
  • 4 Who's Who of College Students
      National Honors
  • awarded the Crown Chapter award since its inception
  • Financial Acheivement award
  • Quota/Total award
  • 2nd runner-up for the Merit Award (ranked 7th out of ZTA's 227 chapters)
  • Outstanding Area Advisor Award, Pat Courley-Nelson
  • Highly commendable scholarship achievement
  • Sisterhood award - province award
  • 4 Sigma Zetas received national scholarships in 1998, 2 in 1997
  • Recipient of highest convention award, Helen Margaret Harrison, in 1988
  • 3 Sigma Zetas have served on National Council: Harriet Ross Frische, Vallera Clough-Ross and Pat Wooster-Jackson
  • Sigma has had 2 consecutive Travelling Leadership Consultants in '98-'99 and '99-'00, Jennifer Knapp and Allison Holcomb
  • National Panhellenic Award named after Sigma alumna, Vallera Clough-Ross. Val also presented a scholarship to Sigma chapter. Each year to come a Sigma will be aided with a scholarship because of this gift.

ZTA International Office in Indianapolis, IN


Pat Wooster-Jackson,
Vice President-Collegiate Area III



Vallera Clough-Ross