Florida Senate - 2024                            (NP)    SR 1800
       
       
        
       By Senator Thompson
       
       
       
       
       
       15-01908-24                                           20241800__
    1                          Senate Resolution                        
    2         A resolution recognizing January 16, 2024, as “Zeta
    3         Phi Beta Day” in Florida, celebrating 104 years of
    4         community service and activism on the organization’s
    5         International Founders’ Day.
    6  
    7         WHEREAS, the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., was founded on
    8  January 16, 1920, at Howard University in Washington, D.C., to
    9  encourage the highest standards of scholastic achievement and
   10  community service, and
   11         WHEREAS, five remarkable women, Arizona Cleaver Stemons,
   12  Pearl Anna Neal, Myrtle Tyler Faithful, Viola Tyler Goings, and
   13  Fannie Pettie Watts, dared to depart from the traditional
   14  coalitions for black women and sought to establish a new
   15  organization with the precepts of scholarship, service,
   16  sisterhood, and finer womanhood, and
   17         WHEREAS, the organization counts among its illustrious
   18  alumni the acclaimed author and anthropologist Zora Neale
   19  Hurston, who grew up in Eatonville and was considered by many to
   20  be one of the best authors of the 20th century as well as a key
   21  figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and
   22         WHEREAS, today, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority’s programs include
   23  the endowment of the organization’s National Educational
   24  Foundation and community volunteerism, including providing
   25  scholarships, supporting charitable organizations, and promoting
   26  social and civic initiatives at the national, state, and local
   27  levels, and
   28         WHEREAS, on January 11, 2024, members of Zeta Phi Beta
   29  Sorority; its auxiliary groups, the Zeta Amicae and the Zeta
   30  Male Network; and its youth groups will gather at the Capitol to
   31  support causes that align with the organization’s strategic
   32  plans and its 2024 theme, The Extraordinary Power of S.H.E.
   33  (social, health, and economic justice), and
   34         WHEREAS, those in attendance will include the Zeta Phi Beta
   35  Sorority’s leadership team, composed of International President
   36  and Chief Executive Officer Stacie Grant, Southeastern Regional
   37  Director Vicki Pearson, State of Florida Director Paula Kay, and
   38  Florida Social Action Chair Diana Jordan Baldwin, and
   39         WHEREAS, on January 16, 2024, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.,
   40  will celebrate 104 years of community service and activism on
   41  its International Founders’ Day, NOW, THEREFORE,
   42  
   43  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:
   44  
   45         That January 16, 2024, is recognized as “Zeta Phi Beta Day”
   46  in Florida, celebrating 104 years of community service and
   47  activism on the organization’s International Founders’ Day.