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18BALTIMORE AFRO-AMERICAN,JANUARY 24,1970mm*Five“Zeta Pcral” is the tradl tlonal name given 16 €Ki distinguished women who are responsible for (he founding of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority.-Host of these women are ftlU living and continuing to make contributions to their respective fields of discipline and to the community at large.Five “Zeta Pearls” are pictured on this page. Profiles on each follows:SOROR PEARL ANNA NEAL — a retired music teacher who soent 43 years In her profession, first teaching at AmericusxJun-ior College, Americus, Ga.; then Mary Allen Junior College, Crockett, Texas and finally Jin the public schools-of Winston-Salem, N.C.Educated at LincolnFoundedfHoward#EQip* % -111 «UL-i\/I If) Ivr/*V-AI*,ii'Mm • t«»n.SOROR PEARL A. NEALSOROR ARIZONA CLEAVER STEMONSSOROR PANNII MTTII WATTSSOROR VIOLA T. GOtNOSSOROR MYRTLIT. FAITHFULAcademy, King’s Mountain, N.C. at Howard University, the Juilliard'School of Music and the Columbia University, Soror Neal has been active in the YMCA, the Urban Leaguo, N.C. Teachers’ Association, the NAACP and the NationalEducation Assoc.• * •SOROR MYRTLE TYLER FATHFUL became-a housewife after a short stint at teaching fol-lowing graduation from Howard University.She is mother of twodaughters, one married and rearLng a family and the other following her mother’s vacation as a teacher Soror Faithful devotes her time to community action programs and to travel.I I ISOROR FANNIE PETTIE WATTS— wag bom inPerry, Georgia, the daughter of Attorney and Mrs. Foster B. Pettie. She received her A.B. in education at Howard University where she became one of the five girls who founded Zeta Phi Beta Sorority in1920. .Soror- Watts is thi mother of two children, Dr, Lloyd A. Watts of Brooklyn, N.Y. and the late Algernon C. Watts of Los Angelees, Calif.Before her retirement In July, 1969, Soror Watts waiTJD salute-Mrs. NealFamed educatorsecond term, vice president in 1963, president-elect in 1964 and ultimately, president in 1965.* — - A* «friaah• twcher at Cyler Jr. High School and at Beach High School in Savannah, Ga., a social worker in New Rochelle, N.Y. and a social investigator in New York.She is a member of the Nazarene Congregational Church of Brooklyn, N.Y.where she serves as co-dl-rector of the Cradle RollDivision.SOROR ARIZOSA CLEA VKR STEMONS — founder-resident, Grand Basileus meritua was educated in the public schools of Han-~nibaf Mo. - and - returned there to teach after gr/du- floating from Howard Uni- versity. •In 1928 she married James S. Stemons, author and inventor, and moved to Philadelphia where- . she worked from until 1965 as a social worker. . . .)- “Curr^ntty' Soror'Stemons ”7 travels over the United States visiting chapters in : answer to their invitations ' to participate in various programs. ^Her home is an archive V of gifts and emblems from . her Zeta offsprings. She •••*. has received the World Emancipation Exposition ' Award and the Four Cha- +# plain's Legion of Honor 1(W -Award.0 * • SOROR VIOLA TYLER *r. GOINGS —more to comev.v-;— received her A.B. de- *•*• gree from Howard in 1920 and immediately began to teach school in the District of Columbia until marriage. ^Now the mother nf ^ * children, and a well-known r 3 • speaker on sorority mat- J* iters, Soror Goings has be- -iVicome an avid communityworker and traveler.* •--------- ----- . . . , , „ ^*• t
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