Alpha Zeta
Alpha Zeta |
ΑΖ
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Founded |
November 4, 1897 (1897-11-04) (114 years ago)
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH |
Type |
Professional and Social |
Scope |
International |
Mission statement |
Alpha Zeta is the professional agricultural organization dedicated to the highest levels of scholarship, leadership, integrity and service. |
Vision statement |
Alpha Zeta is a global network of diverse agricultural professionals recognizing, developing and promoting leaders with common values and integrity. |
Colors |
Mode and Sky Blue |
Flower |
Pink Carnation |
Publication |
Alpha Zeta News |
Chapters |
74 |
Members |
3,000 students collegiate
115,000 lifetime |
Headquarters |
Chesterfield, Missouri, USA |
Homepage |
Alpha Zeta Website |
Alpha Zeta is a professional fraternity for students and industry professionals in the agriculture and natural resources fields. Founded in 1897 at The Ohio State University, Alpha Zeta is the first and oldest collegiate society for agriculture. Today, Alpha Zeta has more than 117,000 alumni and more than 3,000 student members at 74 universities.
History
The fraternity was founded on November 4, 1897 by Charles Burkett, John Cunningham, and ten other agriculture students at Ohio State University.[1]
Chapters
Chapters are named for individuals prominent in some way with respect to agriculture or after the locality of the chapter.
Notable members
- Morris N. Abrams - Louisiana educator (LSU)
- John R. Block - Secretary of Agriculture under Ronald Reagan
- Norman Borlaug, Nobel laureate
- Earl Butz - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1971-1976) (Purdue, '31)
- Robert C. Baker - Professor Emeritus of Food Science, Cornell University; Inventor of the chicken nugget (Cornell '43)
- Herman Cain - former chairman and CEO of Godfather's Pizza
- Walter Clore - Father of the Washington Wine Industury
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President
- Arthur Rose Eldred - Agriculturalist, first Eagle Scout recognized by the Boy Scouts of America (Cornell '16)
- Dan R. Glickman - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1995-2001); current president of the Motion Picture Association of America
- Edwin Jackson Kyle - Former U.S. ambassador to Guatemala (1945-1948), namesake of Texas A&M's Kyle Field (Cornell, '02)
- Henry C. Wallace - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1921-1924) (Honorary, '22)
- William Jardine - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1925-1929) (Kansas, '11)
- Henry A. Wallace - Vice President of the United States, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1933-1940), Founder of Pioneer Hi-Bred, Secretary of Commerce (Wilson, '08)
- Ezra Taft Benson - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1953-1961) (Honorary, '53)
- Orville Freeman - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1961-1969), Minnesota Governor (Honorary, '62)
- Clifford Hardin - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1969-1971) (Purdue, '53)
- Richard Lyng - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1986-1989) (Wilson, '74)
- Albert Schatz - Co-discoverer of streptomycin with Selman Waksman (Cook)
- Selman Waksman - Discoverer of streptomycin and coined the word "antibiotic" (Cook)
- Kenneth E. Wing - President (1992-2002) of SUNY Cobleskill (Cornell '58)
- Clayton Yeutter - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1989-1991) (Nebraska, '50)
References
- ^ Baird's manual of American college fraternities. Volume 19. 1977. p 558
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